SDR and Amateur-radio devroom on FOSDEM 2024

he devroom is organised on Sunday 4 Febr. 2024, and -as you can see- has very interesting talks both for people interested in SDR and satellite, as amateur radio (like the next generation of QO100, TETRA, M17, DAPnet paging. rig-control, etc.),

So if you are interested in the cutting edge of amateur-radio technology and development, FOSDEM 2024 is the place to be. Access to FOSDEM is free and does not require registration.

And, while you are there, come and see "hello" at the amateur radio infobooth at FOSDEM. We are there the whole weekend!
(*) https://www.uba.be/nl/node/3502
(*) https://www.uba.be/fr/node/3502

Call for help for the IQ Engine project: amateur-radio recordings

As already mentioned in the post about FOSDEM 2024, the first weekend of February, FOSDEM will be held again in the ULB Campus Solbosch, with -among others- an infobooth on amateurradio and a devroom on SDR and amateurradio.

One of the projects that will be demonstrated in the devroom is IQ Engine (*)
IQ Engine is "A web-based SDR toolkit for analyzing, processing, and sharing RF recordings". Its goal is to become a prime resource for educational SDR-related projects and for testing new SDR software and hardware.

For that reasom, the people behind the IQ Engine project are calling out to the amateurradio community for recording of interesting radio-signals. The project is looking for radio-signals both from analog and digital transmissions, special modulation scemes, but also special types of propagation like meteor-scatter, aurora and sporadic E, ...

The signal recordings should be "raw IQ", meaning recorded straight from an SDR or other digital receiver, with no demodulation such as SSB applied yet; this is also known as "digitized RF" or "raw radio data". These recordings don't have to be clean/high-SNR, since they will be used for educational purposes and as test files for SDR receivers (such as in GNU Radio). Any format is OK (e.g. .wav, binary IQ, SigMF), as long as it's raw IQ.

The IQ Engine project will be presented at FOSDEM 24 in the sdr/hamradio devroom on Sunday 4 February, at 14:00.
This gives you the opportunity not only to see the tool in action, but also to talk to the developers and people behind the project.

Links:
https://iqengine.org
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1641-iqengine-a-web-based-sdr-toolkit-for-analyzing-processing-and-sharing-rf-recordings/
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/radio/