Kai RetroHoosk @ LVFC & AC

Now LIVE at twitch.tv/RetroHoosk !

FPGAs soldered, here’s the current state of the additional DAB boards!

Goin’ live in just under two hours for my annual 12 hour stream! :3

Mmm, FPGAs… |3

It's this dog's Birthday tomorrow and I'll be doing a 12 hour stream starting at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT!

I'll be hosting a mix of games, projects and with a bit of luck, VRChat!

Hope to see y'all there! Watch at twitch.tv/RetroHoosk

With commercial shortwave broadcasting dying a death, we should totally just make the whole band a wild west for hobbyists.

Now that would make for some fun scanning!

Alrighty! All set for AC2025! The hype is real! :D

Yupyup, so 174-240Mhz, which would be VHF iirc.

I am experimenting with how much I can get away with.

Having completely vacant spectrum for this and no one here with a compatible receiver has its advantages. :3

(would definitely need a killswitch for border crossings lmfao)

Now I have learned how to build DAB transmitters, intrusive ideas are getting into my head...such as building one with a self-contained SoC for webstream pulling/encoding and a 5G cell radio in order to integrate it into my car as a mobile transmitter.

Totally legitimate operation, naturally.

hello, at&t longlines 💙

Also thank you! ❤️

For sure, I used to use VRCLens a long while back but just using the built-in cam controls right now.

It’s a bit fiddly dialing ‘em in but yeah, practice makes perfect! :3

Yeah, I -finally- took some time on Sunday to do some VR photos. :3

Ahh well to be fair to ya, I didn't really make much of a song and dance of going as it was just up the road from me hahah

Where's this dog gonna go?

Awh heckie, I'll have to catch you next time!~

Doggo standing on guard at the transmission tower. :3 #VRChat

Kinda nuts to be a 10 minute walk away from my house and receive a digital radio signal from a board I put together piece by piece.

Not to mention the silliness of picking up the BBC over the air 8 time zones away from the UK.

Thanks for all the new memories this weekend. I will think about these on my long flight back home❤️ Awruff

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It was so lovely seeing you Daff, thank you for the memories and see ya at LVFC!

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Well I just got to #Vancoufur2026 and we’re off to a strong start

A photo of an old analogue CRT television, showing a 1990s BBC 2 ident. Alongside are 4 TV channel generators, one for each of BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV Central, and Channel 4.

We may have the only analogue CRT television still receiving four channels 😅

Each channel has Teletext of course...

BBC 1 ➡️ Ceefax East Midlands
BBC 2 ➡️ Ceefax World Service
Central ➡️ Spark
C4 ➡️ Chunkytext

Awoo, happy borkday Shep! :D

CRA processed my paper filed return within 4 days of receiving it. No income tax objection needed this year, so that's a relief. xD

Oooh fair! Well I’m still down! My Radio 4 feed sounder a bit iffy hahah.

Sure! I’d be interested, buuut because I’m using the old DAB standard I have to mostly use 128k MP2…

But doing a super HQ old DAB station would be an interesting test.

In production in the UK, it never went beyond 192k, where BBC Radio 3 got the premium treatment no other station got.

A'ight we back on with #GlobalTalk! #MARCHintosh