Category Ham

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…