OpenGD77 DMR Rx Audio Leveling
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…
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The Raspberry Pi 5 Is Quite Impressive
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…
What Comes After Open Source? Bruce Perens Is Working On It
Bruce Perens was one of the original contributors to the free software movement, but also noted as being a ham radio operator, callsign K6BP. His interview below is interesting on advancing free software beyond the GPL as the megacorps have…
Pushover for Allstarlink Connection Messages
Having installed Skywarn Plus on my Allstarlink node yesterday, it used Pushover for the weather alert text messages to your phone as opposed to cellular SMS messages. The app is so nice for receiving messages because it’s clean and you…
Skywarn Plus for Allstarlink
If you run your own Allstarlink node with Hamvoip, they have instructions for using Autosky Skywarn for weather alerts, but there is a much more feature rich weather alert system called Skywarn Plus coded in Python by Mason Nelson which…
How To Upgrade Raspberry Pi OS to Debian Bookworm from Bullseye
I was going to write a post on how to upgrade since it officially just came out, but the post below already covered it. All of my upgrades have gone through without issue except for my ham projects, DVSwitch and…
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!
The new Raspberry PI 5 features a 2-3x speed improvement over the Raspberry Pi 4, 2x the GPU performance, much improved IO performance due to in-house chip, and only $60 for 4GB version, $80 for 8GB version. And they’ve been…
Canadians Are a Bit Upset at Trudeau and Zelensky – Radio Tracking Vehicle Sited
You have to love Canadians protesting Turdeau and Zelensky, but I was intrigued by the vehicle below and the antennas on the roof. It certainly looks like it has HF in the middle and direction finding antennas for everything else…
Part Social Media And Part Preppers’ Paradise, Ham Radio Is The Perfect Hobby
A nice write up if you’re not familiar with Ham Radio and how much access to different frequency ranges a ham radio license gives you, along with ionospheric skip for world wide communications without needing the internet. I’ve personally used…
Hamvoip Linux Kernel Upgrade From 4.19 to 5.4
If like me you had an old Hamvoip installation you might find it’s still on the old Linux kernel 4.19. I actually update mine using pacman verses the admin.sh (menu) option 1, so most everything was updated and showed the…
Exploring the Experimental Firmware for the Quansheng UV-K5 Radio
Interesting new Chinese radio that has the Beken RF BK4819 chip which allows for a wider frequency range and custom firmware (see quoted post below). Note, this radio doesn’t put out much power on these other bands and lacks proper…
OpenGD77 Firmware for TYT MD-UV380 – Beta 2023 05 09 – Color Theme Support
Some initial color support was added to the OpenGD77 Firmware for the TYT MD-UV380. The easiest way to play with themes is to use the new CPS where you can easily select colors and upload to the radio to test.…