Beagle_SDR_GPS VS svg2shenzhen

If you want to have something similar for use at home, you could take a look at http://kiwisdr.com.

I have one, but you need to hunt down EMI sources, before you can properly use it.

Have you see http://kiwisdr.com/ ?

One of my favorite projects is the KiwiSDR network, which is essentially making radios available online for public use:

http://kiwisdr.com/

http://rx.kiwisdr.com

Your father could be anywhere and enjoy listening from... anywhere? :-)

http://kiwisdr.com/ - Online access to software-defined radios for listening and learning nomenclature as well as a useful SWL tool

find the signal on SDR, kiwisdr.com

For a book look at Gordon West's technician book, for a website hamstudy.org. If you want to listen to HF amateur radio kiwisdr.com, you can also pick up a rtl-sdr for about $25. A great You Tube channel is "Ham Radio Crash Course"

I just checked the map of receivers on http://kiwisdr.com/ and the first Bay Area one I tried (KE6GG out of Daly City, CA) seemed to be able to tune in AM and FM broadcast radio stations.

The project is http://kiwisdr.com/ Regarding closed-source software, people are reverse engineering everything anyway.

Very cool initiative, i have developed inkscape extension for making creative pcb art, you might be interested in: https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen

And for what it's worth it's never too late to learn KiCad! Free and open souce, plus svg2shenzen makes it really easy to build PCB graphics.

If you're working from a vector image, use Inkscape and the svg2shenzen plugin. Straight forward and works well.

My first blank panel design- I used svg2shenzen to generate the kiCAD project files and referenced the Printable Instruments repo for layer arrangement, format etc.

I'm trying to follow a tutorial on using the plugin svg2shenzhen https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen

I've been using this: https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen

More specifically, it seems like a known issue: https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen/issues/115

For graphics i would suggest the use of https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen (A inkscape plugin that outputs kicad compatible files)

It is certainly possible in kicad if you create your own footprints. There are various tutorials online for creating negative copper artwork in kicad. You might find SVG2shenzhen useful as well