Good News about PSKReporter:

https://www.openresearch.institute/2026/09/14/pskreporter-levels-up/

I stumble into the kitchen to make coffee.

Is this... a trap?

Do you like wireless radio CTFs? Interested in learning more about DSP, FPGAs, and FFTs?

Here's a CTF based on a real lunar mission that introduces the concepts in a fun and friendly way.

https://www.openresearch.institute/2026/07/03/solutions-released-for-lunar-descent-ctf/

This is an amateur satellite milestone.

This is ORI's digital multiplexing microwave band payload, and this is a demonstration of the uplink receiver working.

Here, the channelizer and power detector are working to track a signal swept across the uplink. Point a browser at the satellite implementation, and a web page reports station performance.

Back end is MQTT (a service in the embedded linux image) and it doesn't clutter things up when no one is looking at it.

Demod/decode is next.

Something interesting is coming up in a few days. April 17-19 2026 is where the second derivative of the Doppler shift is zero, between Earth and Venus. This is related to Earth-Venus-Earth #EVE communications attempts coming up in October 2026.

This is the inflection point of the rate-of-change curve. In other words, it's where the Doppler shift is accelerating fastest, before starting to decelerate. We can see that in our link analysis! Here it is:

There is honestly nowhere one can escape sexism in tech. It is everywhere all the time. That was the lesson from that awful book "Lean In". It's a lesson I keep learning successfully leading teams.

Men will always favor other men. Over women. Every time. Right now, women are not truly included. Because we're not truly considered to be people.

If you can accept this, and if you can keep the focus on the work, and if you can absorb gut punches, and if you have enough margin, then you're good.

The Case of the Missing Transmit Power, an #fpga debugging adventure.

https://www.openresearch.institute/2026/03/28/the-case-of-the-missing-transmit-power/

#opulentVoice call over the air at 431.35 MHz in San Diego CA.

Today, during an IEEE standards meeting, one of the participants had to stop participating and then run to a bomb shelter because of an undeclared war against Iran.

This is obscenely bad. I'd just like to make that clear. People like me are focusing on creating wonderful technical communications solutions, all open source, and participating everywhere we can.

This horrific damage is all because of the United States government.

As a resident of the State of California, I am so sorry.

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The ninth row is dashed lines. Straight across, solid lines, interrupted but outages. beep beep beep all the way across.

The overall effect slows you down and makes you want to spend some time with it.

All of the signal lines are standard bright green against solid black background. If this was done in cross stitch, each of the rows would probably be a distinct color, chosen to represent some characteristic that the artist wanted you to notice.

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The seventh row is similar, but with a much lower lazier smaller amplitude.

The eighth row looks like a gymnast is doing cartwheels. In a very very abstract sense. But it's like the olympics and someone did a long tumbling run.

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The sixth row is a sine wave, but instead of a bright line moving up and down in wave patterns, the line is replaced by a tiny spiral. So the line itself is a complicated thing, with repeating patterns. It makes the entire sine wave look more like a string of conch shells that you've made make large undulating waves than a gold chain with tight links.

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Fifth row is very similar but with less horizontal uncertainty. The loops are all pretty much the same length with no variation to make it look chunky.

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The fourth row is the same switched sides birds swooping back and forth type of thing, but instead of a bright line, the lines themselves are parallel ramps. This makes the lines very soft, but not randomized soft, but structured soft. It reminds me of the aliens in the Atari Space Invaders game.

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The third row is two bright lines, like skaters on a frozen river. They mirror each other's path, going apart then coming back together. Sometimes quickly, sometimes after a while. This makes large and small loops of definition, that are like beans but with smushed ends.

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The top wave is parallel lines that ramp down periodically. The effect is like two cars drifting across lanes of traffic together, then we start over from the lefthand land going all the way over to the right.

The second row is two parallel lines of randomized dots. This looks like two lush hedges in a garden, trimmed to be two long hedgerows together but not touching.

Look at this cool simulation #radio art from NB0X. He's one of our designers at @OpenResearchIns

Tried to do it justice in the alt text.

We also have some very interesting patterns in the MSK transmission that I have been trying to figure out why they are there. In the main lobe of the MSK, clearly visible using #maia, are two columns of patterns. They look like faces, bugs, and other forms. I'll try and track a good example of that for a next post.

2018, Lyrid meteor shower, created from an overnight run of automated #astrophotography with my DSLR.

I have never done #meteorscatter. Pretty much the only way I'd get to do this mode is with an automated system. Which, sounds super fun to build. A sensor to detect paths, and then a radio to order to give it a shot.

Well, this is me.

And ... I'm back in IEEE jail yet again for downloading publications I subscribe to.

If you (bulk) download issues you have a right to, based on Society membership, they freak out and accuse you of doing something nefarious.

If you never download anything, no journals, no magazines, they oddly never write to ask why you haven't read the latest issue iof Cybernetics and Man Magazine, or why T-MTTS is gathering digital dust on the shelf. No, it's only when you try and use your subscriptions.