September 24, 2020

I’ve been working on utilizing a few links to get the “ISS Location Receiver” project underway, which can be observed in the “ISS Station Location” section on this page:

• https://musimatic.net/radio.html

I’ve been utilizing the following links to do so:

• http://open-notify.org/Open-Notify-API/
• https://leafletjs.com/examples/quick-start/
• https://leafletjs.com/reference-1.7.1.html#map-options
• https://asmaloney.com/2014/01/code/creating-an-interactive-map-with-leaflet-and-openstreetmap/
• https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_map_tilenames#Tile_servers
• https://openmaptiles.org/
• https://mledoze.github.io/countries/

Still deciding on how to best do this as you can easily just have it run every five seconds with a “setTimeout()” JS function.

Also, I would like to do this via an AJAX request via a button too if possible which would be cool.

We’ll see.

Otherwise, still looking for a $200 mid-tier Ham Radio since I’ll be able to get a free J-Pole antenna and power supply from two different Ham’s in the area. Looking for one that can be easily programmed with CHIRP software, but can reach repeaters in the area.

I think I’ll keep myself occupied with Echolink via QTel for the time being though while I keep doing my related research.

Also, I’m looking into VoIP based services to make internet calls with cordless or corded old-school phones, since I pretty much am fed up with using cellphones these days.

Some VoIP software I found that works on Linux:

• https://jitsi.org/downloads/
• https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble
• https://qtox.github.io/
• https://jami.net/download-jami-linux/

Keep staying positive :)

~ Sam