Borrowed, I have no interest in owning one personally.

@@SkylerF their plain rubbish.

Hex edit is a lot easier for xtl2500, that requires a mod of patport.exe and no ram hex editing req’d

That's because GitHub ( Shithub) sucks 🤬

I’ve done it with lots of Motorola

Probably tricky for ism 915, lots of random signals there and can’t really lock down on the one you want , the kraken can’t decode by protocol

Just use 1/4 wave mag mount whips. I use small black ones. Hard to see.

@@stargazer7644 ended up using strong NMO magnet mounts with adapters to 1/8" steel whip material. I need to paint the elements black, tomorrow (bare metal will rust). Rather than exotic (expensive) steel, found Lowes has decent strength steel rod for cheap price.

@@frankthetank3342 TIG Welding rod is also a good alternative. It comes in a variety of materials.

Yeah I wasn’t specifying it was for ham

Probably about 75-80% of radios it works on yes that’s including the th9000. just need direct modulator and discriminator connections. Something that uses dsp like a baofeng ht woudlnt work

@@SkylerF thank you so very much for the response! I am very new to the world of raspberry pi & the accessory boards, which is a bit confusing at first glance. I like the idea of using readily available units with easily accessible programming software to build a dual timeslot digital repeater. These little pi units seem like they are really powerful 💪 for the size 🤏. Is there a particular source or guide for a beginner that you would suggest?

Unfortunately I don’t. I built this many years ago and did it mostly just by trial and error when I was picking resistor values etc. I would recommend the hamvoip website with some of their baofeng guides as a starting place

Good point. Guess I need more friends. I did it on an early Sunday morning so the traffic wasn’t too horrible

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@@SkylerF I'd like to meet you IRL now that I have my system operational. What hunts do you have coming up?

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​@@SkylerFnot with my antenna array. The roof would go with it.

With a directional antenna you would have to manually get outside of the car and aim the antenna by spinning it 360° to find the peak signal strength. Completely doable and usually what I used to do but just takes a lot of time manually getting bearing lines every time you stop the car. Plus most directional antennas have side lobes so you might get a signal even if you aren’t pointed right at the source.

@@SkylerFWell right... but with an omnidirectional you could be picking up that cell tower, or the other one down the street. A directional antenna would be subject to a lot less noise, and really, you only need 3 or more points for triangulation. Rather than driving in a circle letting the system figure out where something is until it actually figures it out.

@@kjchaifisch Been there and done that with various flavors of directional antennas. Actually a cardiod antenna worked best, aiming for the LEAST signal rather than the most. It has a single very narrow notch. But as SkylerF said it's kind of a PITA especially if raining, cold, or no good place to park.

it is. you can receive as much as you want

Have a antenna farm on the roof of my 1 ton van. HF screwdriver, 6 meters, 2 meters, 1.25 meters, 70cm, 33cm, 23cm, GMRS, CB and occasionally install the 5 antennas for a Kraken when I need to do direction finding. If you want to see a real antenna farm look at Andrea K2EV's mobile Rover station. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2KQoWaQgNFshLMfeature=shared

Why would it not be allowed?

LoRa trackers might be easier, 900MHz trackers such as the sensecap t1000

@@SkylerF Those look pretty cool, and I do intend to get into LoRa (Let's see if Meshtastic goes anywhere), but I am looking for a super compact solution, like within a heat shrink tube, to be sewn or stapled unnoticed into a seam in an inflatable Frosty the Snowman, etc. The only component I am missing is a ATtiny or somth that keys an id number along with a 45 second or so dash.

Why don't you just put an apple air tag on it? Far simpler.

@@stargazer7644 Good question. An AirTag could work for tracking stolen items. From a consumer perspective they would be simpler to operate However, they are much more complicated than a simple tracking beacon. They rely on a participating apple device to be within their Bluetooth range and ultimately rely on cell carrier networks, the internet, and proprietary devices and software. You can absolutely do that if you want, but my project idea is in the spirit of DIY, Amateur Radio, and possibly using the KrakenRDF unit for locating it, which is what this video is about.

Na página oficial eles falam dessa possibilidade inclusive com uma aplicação em nuvem para gerenciar as unidades remotas

Hey I was filming with the other hand lol

And no torque wrench on the SMA's! 😂😂😂 Thank you for making the vid.

Yes. Nice not having the body rust out, but now I need to drill holes....

We knew this when we bought them. But they're hardly the first vehicles with aluminum body panels - I had a car in 1978 that you couldn't put a mag mount on.

The arrow base antenna converts easily to a folding array for mobile use.

We did that years ago for fun. If it's an AM signal, see if you can find a TRC-427, looks like they are pretty cheap on eBay. RF Gain on these is an RF Attenuator circuit. Mount a magnet mount antenna as far back on your vehicle as possible, to make it more directional. I have hunted down a walkie talkie hidden in a hedge with this exact setup. And I have also been able to get a correct direction on a 300 watt linear at less than 1000 feet. $50 or $500, your choice. If you only need it for CB, the $50 sounds better to me.

@@javabeanz8549 Yeah, ours are 477MHz FM but same ideas.

@@javabeanz8549You don't need an AM RX to hunt an am TX

@@javabeanz8549 The Kraken isn't a psudodoppler, and doesn't need an external reciever. The radius of the antenna array might be an issue though.

It isn't quite that critical. The accuracy of the bearings isn't all that precise, so while you do want the antennas and feedlines to be a close to identical as possible, a few fractions of a wavelength isn't going to make it unusable.