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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
