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…
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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…
NextNav’s Callous Land-Grab to Privatize 900 MHz
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…
Ham Radio Still Alive And Kicking In Wyoming
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…
American Radio Relay League Confirms $1 Million Ransom Payment
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…
New Version of SkywarnPlus
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…
DMR Unification Project
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…
Reset WPSD Updater
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…
How to Make Your 7 Digit Personal Talk Group Work with DMRGateway
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…
Switching DMRGateways in Pi-Star
The default DMRGateway in Pi-Star or WPSD 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…
Asterisk and FreePBX at Home
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…