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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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: 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…
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…
It’s interesting to see the EFF supporting ham radio. I used to support the EFF, but then they were captured and added a lot of woke and trans Maoist ideologies to what they advocate and I stopped supporting them. It’s…
