If you get your amateur radio license, you could build or buy a low-power morse code (CW) beacon and actually use your project to transmit a real sign

Creating a morse-code interpreter with Raspberry Pi , Elixir, MQTT

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2021-05-17 11:28:10

If you get your amateur radio license, you could build or buy a low-power morse code (CW) beacon and actually use your project to transmit a real signal over the air. Then you could look at signal reports from listening stations to see how far you are getting out across the globe.

For example, my callsign is WW1X, so I would program the morse code to transmit a loop of WW1X/B FN31. This is my callsign with the /B beacon suffix, and then FN31 which is my grid locator, so that listeners would know exactly where the signal originates from.

We have a small Discord of Elixir developers who are into ham radio if you are interested to learn more; PM me and and I'll send you an invite.

Also a question - when you said you were considering Elixir / Erlang on Raspberry Pi Zero - were you referring to Nerves project? Like when you talked about the increased latency - was that in respective to Nerves?