A nice article on ham radio in Wyoming operating Parks on the Air. Casey Freund of Thermopolis, Wyoming, goes by the call sign KC7E, but that’s not his TikTok handle. He’s one of the few who don’t need Wi-Fi…
I dropped the ARRL a long time ago when they were lobbying that terrible representative Sheila Jackson Lee out of Texas, trying to get legislation passed to allow hams to have antennas even in HOA restricted communities. Consequently, I never…
It looks like the main change with v8.1 was to accommodate ASL3 and some Supermon permissions, and in v8.0 the node information box display was updated to show if SkywarnPlus is active along with some nice color changes. If you’re…
During the Digital Learning Net on XLX303D last night also bridged to Brandmeister TG 31088, Bucky, W0SUN, mentioned the DMR Unification Project, and they have a great DMR presentation video embedded on their front page that goes into using networks…
Something to be aware of, as I’ve had this happen a couple times since switching over to WPSD from Pi-Star, and that’s the /usr/local/sbin directory disappears, which happens to contain wpsd-update leaving you dead in the water for updating. The…
For the sake of demonstration, we’ll assume my DMR ID is 3999999. With DMRGateway, for multiple networks to be connected and used at the same time there is talk group translation using 7 digits, e.g. TG 31665 on TGIF would…
The default DMRGateway in WPSD or Pi-Star has all DMR networks active with adjustable timeouts/holds, but VE3RD created a DMRGateway-6 that has only one network active at a time, and the user can use multiple ways to switch networks. I…
Having worked a couple decades for an AT&T Business Phone Provisioning Center, we installed and serviced enterprise phone installations dealing with T1s and PRIs connected to Private Branch eXchange systems, which were primarily made by the same megacorps that made…
If you’ve spent any time on DMR you’ve noticed that a lot of people have varying audio levels which is why it’s a good idea to utilize parrot to adjust your mic audio and normalize it with others. You’ve probably…
I already have a post on the new Raspberry Pi 5 with all the changes and specifications, but having fired up one to become my new Bitcoin node with a 2 TB SSD drive, I’ve been impressed with how much…
