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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
