It is a long weekend. I am trying to do something useful during this weekend.
One of them is to start experimenting GNU Radio as I have been interested in the software defined radio(SDR) technology and its development. I have not been so passionate though. I installed something called UHD and GNURadio as per the instruction on the website. Unfortunately, it does not seem to work. It complains my computer is missing some DLL file. I will investigate this error later.
Monday, July 1st, is a contest day. I have been participating at the RAC Canada Day contest almost every year. I have won the contest twice on the single band (28Mhz) category. The reason for choosing 28Mhz band is because it is relaxing as there are not many contacts to make on this band. Maybe I am thinking to work on 21Mhz band this year to be a bit busy. The 21mhz band is more widely open apparently and the situation would be a lot different from 28Mhz, especially considering we are at the solar maximum this year even though a clumsy one.
