Category Ham

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…

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…

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…