Lsnodes Dark Mode for Supermon 7.4
For one, this is what I did to get it to work, but all these files need to be cleaned up as some of the definitions in PERL aren’t working. I think some of these projects are hobbled together and…
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Tired of Supermon 7.4’s White Background?
There is room for improvement, but I tried to comment what I could figure out and mirrored a dark mode to go along with the theming of AllScan. I’m no web coder and it’s only tested on Firefox which is…
Adding Supermon to ASL3
KN2R’s Supermon can be added to ASL3 via the instruction from the Ham Radio Crusader at bottom or use his PDF link below. And though clean, there is a lot of functionality missing from Allmon 3. And this is where…
Linux Kernel 6.12 – Real Time Kernel on Pi-Star
When Raspberry Pis became available again after the chip shortages, I purchased a couple four core Pi Zero 2 W boards to be our Pi-Hole DNS/Unbound servers. Previously the main board was a Pi Zero 2 W that had the…
Pi-Star How To: Make File System Read/Write (RW)
Good post on removing the read only normal mode of the file system in Pi-Star. Note, you may have to redo this on occasion as updates might put parts back. And he missed one (or it was added later) in…
Back to Andy’s Pi-Star, 4.3 Beta on Bookworm
I switched to Chip’s WPSD back when he came out with a Bullseye version ahead of Andy, and the old Pi-Star was looking like it might be on life support. Originally Chip’s version had a bug with simplex hotspots where…
Newer YSFGateway Breaks DMR2YSF in WPSD
Update Oct. 31, 2024: There is a bug with the YSFGateway Chip is using where it shows a 90% packet loss with every YSF station through DMR2YSF. A fallback to this version of YSFGateway gets things back working normally. July…
Quansheng UV-K5 Hardware Bug and Egzumer Firmware
Amazon has the Retivis RA79 for $17.99, which is just a rebadged Quansheng UV-K5, and because of the Beken BK4819 chip there is a wide range of experimental firmwares enabling a lot of extra receive capability. Technically, this also opens…
How They Know What You’re Listening To On Your Radio!
A fascinating historical look into how receivers were actually transmitting weak signals, giving away what was being listened to. And a fascinating look into past wars and spy craft and how they exploited this receiver radiation leak.
WPSD Operating System Updates
Update Oct 26, 2024: Chip has changed the nightly update to a systemd service and changed the script to .wpsd-nightly-tasks. This is a hidden file, which begs the question of why he’s trying to hide it and move it from…
N2GE 145.19MHz Repeater Hurricane Health and Welfare Traffic in North Carolina
N2GE 145.19MHz Repeater: I had been previously listening to W4HTP as with the N2GE’s Broadcastify stream being down, but that’s been restored now. An easy way to listen is on your phone with the Scanner Radio App which usually…
Hundreds of Icom IC-V82 2m Radios Explode Across Lebanon
Icom claims they’re knockoffs, but interesting they’re 2m radios meant to be for emergency communications in a war with Israel. Hezbollah needs some serious security reforms on how they source and inspect their electronics. It makes you wonder just how…