I could do 10m but only if you're in the Mid Atlantic region of the US
most likely. I played around a little during the recent ARRL 10 meter
contest and conditions were very rough save for very brief Sporadic E
openings. Anyway mail me if you want to set something up. Also, I'd
encourage you to get your general - it's not that much harder than
Technician. One day I'll get Extra...
Hi All!
I've been wanting to play with the Olivia mode, but there doesn't seem
to be much activity around. If anyone wants to try it, let me know and
we can set up a time. My QTH is the FM19 gridsquare (MD, USA) and
judging by my FT8 contacts I usually get good propagation to the
Midwest, the Gulf Coast (especially Texas for some reason), and
sometimes to the Pacific Northwest when using 5-7 watts on 17
and 20 meters. I've had success locally in the Mid-Atlantic
using 80 meters as well.
73!
Justin KC3NTG
On 2019-08-06, <kc3ntg(a)radiofreqs.space> <kc3ntg(a)radiofreqs.space> wrote:
> Anyone ever done any 6m SSB work? I'd like to hear recs on transceivers
> that are budget-friendly.
>
> 73 DE KC3NTG
I recommend the Yaesu FT-450D. With IF DSP it has a really great receiver
and 100W on TX. Price is good too!
You can now search the FCC license database via the command line.
Command: fccdb <callsign>
Example:
$ fccdb nb0x
NB0X Wishek, Matthew
792 Ellen Ln
El Cajon, CA 920192618
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I'm currently living somewhere without a DMR repeater, and most hotspots
are a bit out of my price range. Does anyone here have any experience
with using a cheap ebay MMDVM as a DMR hotspot? I've linked the one I'm
looking at below. I've already got raspberry pis sitting around that I
could use with it. I'm just looking for any advice anyone might have
before I go ahead and try it.
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/UHF-VHF-MMDVM-hotspot-OLED-Antenna-Case-Support-P25…
Received this article from our Winlink net, thought I'd pass it along.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-wildfires-Cell-comp…
If a wildfire breaks out, your cell phone service may not work when you most
need it.
Most cell stations in California have backup options, like batteries and
generators. However, some major cell phone carriers told the Federal
Communications Commission in filings this week that if physical access to cell
towers is cut off, they can't guarantee service.
Backup power options "are not effective for mitigating the disruption to
wireless communications when our facilities are damaged by fire," AT&T told the
FCC.
User irl is working on adding AX.25 support to OpenBSD. Please
checkout the HamBSD.org website for more information.
RadioFreqs.space is prouding to be hosting the binary
distributions for HamBSD!
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On 2019-08-10, MIT Radio Society on The MIT Radio Society <bozo(a)dev.null.invalid> wrote:
> Lectures on Radio Technology, History, and Applications by guest speakers from
> Nokia, MIT Haystack, and CWRU Hosted by The MIT Radio Society and EECS
> Beginning Tuesday January 8th at 5:30PM in room 3-270 Have you ever wondered
> about the underlying principles behind WiFi? How radar works, or how we know
> so much about the early universe? Or even just what those people are doing up
> on the Green Building roof at such odd hours?
>
> URL: http://w1mx.mit.edu/iap-2019/
>
This lecture series is excellent, highly recommended.
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From: "Matthew (NB0X)" <nonlinear(a)radiofreqs.space>
Newsgroups: radiofreqs.ham
Subject: Fun with APRS
I am interested in developing a CLI client for APRS for our users.
As an experiment, you can telnet to the ARPS-IS servers and
receive APRS reports in the terminal.
$ telnet firenet.aprs2.net
> Trying 129.15.108.120...
> Connected to firenet.aprs2.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> # javAPRSSrvr 4.3.0b24
> user NB0X-TL pass -1
> # logresp NB0X-TL unverified, server N5JXS-F1, adjunct "filter default" No filter set
> #filter r/32/-116/300
> #filter r/32.0/-116.0/300 active
> AF6YU-B>APDG02,TCPIP*,qAC,AF6YU-BS:!3234.48ND11700.92W&RNG0001 440 Voice 445.20000MHz +0.0000MHz
> N6KNE-14>APDR15,TCPIP*,qAC,T2FEJER:=3356.76N/11717.89Wu122/054/146.520MHz/A=001387 https://aprsdroid.org/ 146.52
> HEAPS>APN383,WIDE2-2,qAR,N6JCM:$ULTW00000065030E0000----000086A00001----011700C800000000
> KD6RSQ>APRS,WIDE1-1,qAR,KF6SJ-10:$ULTW009900C8037E225F27AAFFF39C26000101BD00DA02D500010032
> ...
The filter command '#filter r/32/-116/300' requests all reports in
a 300 mile radius of Lat 32N Long -116W. Other filter commands
are documented here:
http://aprs-is.net/javAPRSFilter.aspx
The firenet subdomain includes many APRS reports that aren't
included in the normal APRS-IS network.
From http://aprs-is.net
> If you want to inject non-amateur radio content, use the FireNet
> local-only port to prevent the packets from entering APRS-IS.
> FireNet exists to give amateur radio operators and authors a
> place to inject non-amateur radio information such as METAR
> reports, detailed earthquake reports, etc. for FireNet users
> while not adversely affecting APRS-IS. FireNet users still have
> full access to APRS-IS in addition to the FireNet local packets.
For the APRS CLI client, I would like to have the ability to do
ARPS messaging to interact with APRS services such as:
* ANSRVR
* Email
* SMS Gateway
As well as be able to exchange APRS message with both APRS users and
Brandmeister DMR radios. Note: I have previously exchanged text
messages with my DMR HT and an APRS app on my phone.
The METAR reports from firenet are interesting, realtime weather
reports from local airports.
METAR-2>APFMET,TCPIP*,qAC,WE7U-IE:;MTRKNFG *072155z3318.00N/11721.00W_230/008g017t077h57b10129 CA_MCAS CAMP PENDLETON
METAR-2>APFMET,TCPIP*,qAC,WE7U-IE:;MTRKNKX *072155z3252.00N/11709.00W_280/009g...t080h54b10135 CA_MCAS MIRAMAR
METAR-2>APFMET,TCPIP*,qAC,WE7U-IE:;MTRKNRS *072156z3234.00N/11707.00W_280/013g...t073h73b10139 CA_IMPERIAL BEACH, NOLF
METAR-2>APFMET,TCPIP*,qAC,WE7U-IE:;MTRKNXP *072156z3418.00N/11610.00W_200/013g023t100h17b10139 CA_TWENTYNINE PALMS MARINE
METAR-2>APFMET,TCPIP*,qAC,WE7U-IE:;MTRKNYL *072157z3239.00N/11436.00W_300/005g...t104h20b10088 AZ_MCAS YUMA
METAR-2>APFMET,TCPIP*,qAC,WE7U-IE:;MTRKNZY *072152z3242.00N/11713.00W_270/010g...t073h64b10132 CA_NAS NORTH ISLAND, SAN DIEGO
072152z is UTC 10:52PM UTC on August 7
3242.00N/11713.00W is lat/long
240/008 is wind 8 knots from 240 degrees (SWW)
g017 is wind gusts to 17 knots
t077 is temperature 77 degree F
h57 is relative humidity 57%
b10129 is barometric pressure 1012.9 mb
More information can be found at:
https://www.wunderground.com/metarFAQ.asp
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