HAMDig

The latest projects here have been mostly allstar related.

Node 43193 is connected to a Kenwood TM-V71, as a frequency agile remote base... I will work on having the radio pretuned to channels with nets for the mentally challenged.

Ch macros so far;
https://imgur.com/a/iNPDPsI

43337 is connect to ...

UHF packet?, the hell you say.

Are you running anything like this in Arizona? Has anyone from Wisconsin said they miss what you had going in Kaukauna?

If its missed then maybe thats enough reason to put something at my house, the BS of building it all is somewhat off putting though. But I'd think about it.

Technical article on what enables a cheap DMR radio:

https://jhart99.com/auctus-a6/

In this episode of Linux In the Hamshack, Doug, AD8DP is interviewed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze-OVZ6Nb5E

Cool guy

Steve, N8GNJ also has some stuff at superpacket.org

https://www.superpacket.org/2021/04/welcome-tag-nw-it-readers.html

When I read of his latest there reminded me of why I like reading what he'd write. Simple put; He thinks like me.

Amateur Radio exists to provide a portion of spectrum for ...

I used to read Steve's columns in CQ-VHF.

He seems to have recently revived his blog that was long time dormant:

https://www.n8gnj.org/2021/02/them-that ... ed-v2.html

A couple years ago WPS changed out everyones electric and gas meters. They use 900 MHz, so that band is pretty noisy now.

Even prior to this I wasn't able to get much further on 900 MHz until I added amplifiers. The lower you go in frequency the larger the fresnel zone, so I am not meeting that ...

I've tried a number of things over the years. Basically you need to have access to a number of good sites (100 ft) or you really aren't going to get the stuff to go very far. The terrain here vs elsewhere is pretty flat, and we have some pretty good mature trees. Without getting above the trees you ...