MERIDN Digipeater Decommissioned

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.

APRS to SMS Gateway

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 #...

Easy Digi PTT Settings IC-2300

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...

Get APRS Alerts from APRS.fi

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....

Clone Raspberry Pi SD Card on a Mac

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...
Kenwood TH-D74 Battery Life Using APRS

Kenwood TH-D74 Battery Life Using 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...