If I'm honest I'm a bit worried that a 25 year old radio with a documented serial control protocol isn't working fully with libham

Basically not just that it's an obscure radio but it's been so long that no one has cared maybe it's an obscure *and bad*

Okay, so! I found someone's old project for Winradios and forced it to compile and it does control the radio. I have not seen what the windows control program can do yet.

Grig sees it through libham but Debian 12's libham is a bit old and support is incomplete.

My thesis is we will all be fascist if it means we don't have to answer the door, which makes me sad

Besides you have to answer the door when the feds want you to, does that part get forgotten about?

Trust me consuming that much thought on a dumb joke is keeping me sane rn lol I do wish I were a better entertainer, though. Having to run away from important things because I got too sad of brains already happens enough

No, it's fine! It's just named skirizi , that can mean all sorts of meaningless things you are not having a stroke... Ah?

Answer: yes.

Ain't working lol 😞
I think that was a long shot without doing a bunch of research into Wine (the not-emulator). I'm gonna look at Linux options then...

Oh this is .. huh. I wonder if it will restart the bottle?

Good old nostalgia flash bang from the installer here

Done for now! Thank you to a friend for dropping all their electronics junk on me! I'll post more when I get to looking at them.

I'm sort of beyond words on the Winradio, they are quite cool and expensive and "real" RF tools compared to the $20 rtl-sdr devices and Baofeng radios I've been buying. Hopefully I can get this one working and see what its limitations are, and then come up with a good use for it!

The data port is the signal before it goes through the filters and amplifier to go out the speaker, so you can use that for decoding digital modes. Otherwise the speaker is hiding on the top behind the dots.

And finally we have this. It is a discontinued version of a computer controlled radio and I have no idea if I can make it work in this day and age lol. I imagine the PCMCIA adapter card is not easy to track down, but it's not necessary apparently? I need a serial connection and a power supply.

Oh wow, I wonder what the story on that power switch is.. I'll have to figure out how to power these, too.. 19VDC @ 1.58A.. ? Maybe a monitor power supply? There might be other fun options within.

We have a pile of old Internet routers. I'm not sure what's going on here.. the model on the front doesn't change ohhhh... They decided "N900 Gigabit" looks "better" than "Double 450Mbps N" lol

They really should be leading with the "Dark Knight" branding but certainly DC comics wanted to chat 😆

Hey kids, ever see a PCI modem? Lol of course you have, this is a Zoom PCI Faxmodem v.92 from 1999 it looks like, model 3025L. I keep wanting to play with modems but they're something of a pain to set up and I really don't have any good ideas.

According to the Internet this was sold by Dak and Sangean and a couple others, too. The batteries in here are no good. I'm gonna have to clean a little inside the battery compartment but hey it does work with fresh batteries! 😁 Very nice older radio, I want to clean this one up.

Continuing further back into this poor person's fall into listening to shortwave radio, we have an Emerson PSW4010. Splitting shortwave into 7 or 8 bands was kind of typical in the 80s and 90s for tuning through the bands without a digital display. This seems to be a 1988 radio?

Another world band radio, a Dak MR-101. I took the batteries out, they haven't leaked but they're dead. Unfortunately the radio is dead too, going so far as to stop displaying the clock when I turned it on. Alas, but I'll have to look inside later.

I guess I'm cleaning it too! Lol 💜 Why can't we make good batteries? It's not too bad though. Wait the batteries are out why is the clock still working

We have a nice Sony world band radio, ICF-SW7600. The tuning seems to be dead to the world though, which is probably why I have it now lol. It has upper and lower sideband support which is nice and usually more expensive on a world band radio. I'll have to dig in and see what's up later.

I have no real way to test this at the moment but I will have to find something I can cobble together eventually to play with it. Maybe it'll work with a parallel port zip lol noooo

Serial is so much slower than parallel (remember the cable I found) a mere 64 byte buffer is kind of concerning lol

Now this... This I had never considered existing, but I suppose it would have been really important for some industrial applications. I like manual looking like it came out of a dot matrix printer. I wonder if this stuff is archived. It's a short manual but lots of settings to document.

Donations!

We have like the definitive DB-15 breakout board. I'm not sure what uses a DB-15 aside from a famicom and Neo Geo and some apple display connectors but this is a cool little utility. It looks like someone put protective coating over flux residue which is... Interesting lol

I wonder if anyone's ever like, "Wow, I'm getting busy with a demon!" or if it's more like "She's such a strange girl but her French bread pizza makes me feel safe sleeping next to her" lol

I didn't go into recreating the honher bass 3 in circuit.js and think it would work without changes but why do I have to disconnect the +5v sources in all but one place to get the oscillators oscillating?

Clearly I need to figure out what each part does but I need them working first :l I think?

"laying down" shouldn't be a challenging exercise for me :x lol

The fact that there are perfectly normal electrical components called optoisolators that are essentially "a flashlight pointed at a light sensor .5 mm away" makes me happy

Also we get wannabe iPod earphones that I'm not going to touch without gloves on and an impractically short USB extension cable

There isn't any obvious damage to the device but holy cow this battery is cursed. I've had one night stands that left my partner looking better than this lol ¡ay caramba! Into la basura you go

Uh WELL...