Hacking Ham Radio- PCARS March 2023 Presentation
By Jeremy Hong
KD8TUO
PCARS stands for the Platinum Coast Amateur Radio Society, which is an amateur radio club located in Melbourne, FL. You can check out the clubs web page at:
Links provided by Jeremy:
DEFCON 16: Ham For Hackers- Take Back the Airwaves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGsi70c89M
Bsides Detroit 2017 201 Hacking with Ham Radios What I have learned in 25 years of being a ham : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3rHnV-tmZY&t=1s
RTL-SDR Blog Quick Start Guide:
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-quick-start-guide/
Ham Radio Village:
https://www.hamvillage.org/
Hackaday:
https://hackaday.com/
Adafruit:
https://www.adafruit.com/
Sparkfun Electronics:
https://www.sparkfun.com/
Open Source projects by NSA:
https://code.nsa.gov/
Wireless Communications from the Ground Up: An SDR Perspective by Qasim Chaudhari:
https://a.co/d/iUhl9ig, Companion website: https://wirelesspi.com/
TV Show, MR. ROBOT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot
Link to the talk that got me interested in Hardware Reverse Engineering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL7sfzbodw8&ab_channel=AdrianCrenshaw
ChatGPT helped me write and edit this presentation:
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
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