by Ron | Nov 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sadly, I am moving to Eagle and had to take the MERIDN digipeater off the air. SHAFER has great coverage now and so a fill-in digi isn’t really needed. I’ll implement an Igate at the new house for routing packets to APRS-IS.
by Ron | Aug 29, 2019 | 2M, 70CM, UHF, VHF
I bought a Anker Soundcore bluetooth speaker to use with my FT3DR, but it won’t pair. The FT3DR “sees” the Anker speaker, but when I try to connect, it tries for a while, then fails. Will look for another speaker.
by Ron | Jun 19, 2019 | APRS
Did you know you can send/receive messages from APRS to the SMS network? Super easy. Just compose a message to: SMSGTE Start the message with @(the destination phone number) (space) (short message). Example, if I want to send the message “test” to phone #...
by Ron | Mar 21, 2019 | APRS
by Ron | Mar 11, 2019 | APRS
I use an Easy Digi interface between my Icom IC-2300, Direwolf & APRX. Here is my PTT string for my direwolf.conf file for Push To Talk: DEVICE plughw:1,0 ACHANNELS 1 CHANNEL 0 MYCALL MERIDN MODEM 1200 #IC-2300 PTT /dev/ttyUSB0 DTR RTS AGWPORT 8000 KISSPORT 8001...
by K7KEZ | Jan 1, 2019 | APRS
Boise APRS Coverage Overview View Latest on APRS.fi SHAFER provides reliable coverage along I-84 from Mountain Home to Ontario, OR. To the south, most of the valley including the northern face of the Owyhees. And to the north, sporadic coverage in the mountains and...
by K7KEZ | Oct 17, 2017 | 2M, APRS
Did you know APRS.fi can send you alerts when a station goes off-air or on-air? Just visit https://aprs.fi/my/ and add a station under “Stations I follow” From there, you can edit the settings to send you emails when certain events happen....
by K7KEZ | Oct 5, 2017 | APRS, VHF
by K7KEZ | Oct 3, 2017 | APRS, Linux
It’s pretty easy to clone a Raspberry Pi SD Card on a Mac, but takes a LONG time (32GB took 3 hours to backup and 10 hours to restore via my iMac). Open the terminal and find your disk id#. Run: diskutil list To Back It Up sudo dd if=/dev/disk2...
by K7KEZ | Aug 28, 2017 | APRS
I recently bought a Kenwood TH-D74 for hiking and APRS use. I had seen anecdotal complaints about the battery life around the web, but had not seen any real world data. So I setup a test and timed the battery performance. I started with a fully-charged, stock 1800mAh...
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