Note This article was also posted on the San Mateo Radio Club monthly news letter. In California, the majority of new hams come from an EmComm1 group. In this article, I am not going to talk about EmComm. It is a vast subject and your EmComm group is better …
If you are a new ham checking into a repeater or someone listening to the ham radio band with a scanner, you will discover a lot of the jargon. In the following table, you will find the most common lingo you will hear on the amateur band and, more specifically …
In my last article, I wrote about working DMR+ using the DMRGateway module of your Pi-Star hotspot. In this article, I'm going to explain how to use the same DMRGateway module to talk to D-Star networks using your DMR radio. What is cross-mode? When you talk on digital radio, the …
When it comes to DMR, especially in North America, people think of BrandMeister. There is another network of interconnected repeaters and talk-groups called DMR+. Pi-Star hotspot DMR+ was the first network that developed tools to interconnect ETSI Tier 2 DMR repeaters. It started in Europe and has grown in popularity …
I am sure a lot of you have seen the History Channel show, Ice Road Truckers. This last winter, I was in Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, Canada, and I had the chance to drive on one of these ice roads. Yellowknife Ice Road The Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road …
I wrote a little python program to send my iGate telemetry through APRS. The metrics include the temperature of the Raspberry-Pi, the load average, the amount of free memory, and network traffic. Sending the iGate metrics through APRS allows me to use the graph tools offered by aprs.fi or …
Tech day in Sacramento This Friday, I was invited to Sacramento to give my presentation on common mode current, what it is, and how to block or prevent it using common mode chokes. Once a month, Jeff (AK6OK) and Craig (N6YUV) organize a meetup they call ham tech day. A …