Dave's BLOG

As of my last post, I had a working packet install, able to do APRS and Winlink.  My routine (for a couple of days at least, hardly a routin...

A couple of months later, and I'm getting back to packet, in various ways. First way was realizing that I'm really getting tired of ...

Tuesday nights are K3IR nets, and because I still haven't moved my 2m antenna up into the attic, for a more permanent setup, I pulled it...

Ok, time to roll up our sleeves, and get things hooked up.  Or rather, getting past my apprehension of soldering :/. First step, getting the...

Jameco order arrived, and yes I was like a kid at Christmas!  Not even a little bit embarrassed... Verified that the 6-pin DIN cable fit int...

Parts order is on the way, from Jameco, but I wanted to do something , so I got a longer antenna feed cable (50' of RG8X coax), fixed a ...

Now, onto trying out a circuit.  The bottom-right of the diagram in Direwolf's Raspberry-Pi-APRS.pdf looks like this: Testing this out i...

So because I'm cheap frugal, I'm wanting to get this working with as much of my existing equipment as possible.  As mentioned previ...

TL;DR: I got my amateur radio license, bought radios, joined a club, and want to hook up a radio to a computer, to do packet.  These article...

I bit the bullet and got an Android smartphone a while back, and figured I'd use this page to sort out what I like and don't like ab...