It’s been a good weekend. That’s because it included both beer and radio. Today I brewed solo. Most of my brewing lately has been with Josh Nelson, sometimes including others as well. That’s certainly the best way. But today I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for 2012
I’m doing a great deal of thinking, and doing, on systems monitoring. The need has always been there but I thought I could never justify taking the time to do it. My brother showed me Nagios last summer and although […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Information regarding my amateur radio activities has been in high demand lately. Not only have people asked for details about HF operations and my experimentation with Linux and Arduino, the most frequent requests have been for information about the Schweitzer […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I apologize for the poor audio on the repeaters. One of our goals in this maintenance was to improve the audio but….it looks like I ended up in the wrong direction. Fortunately I know what the problem is, and it’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A couple of macros I’ve been working on might interest a few people. They aren’t meant to be complete commands although you can execute them and see how they work. I intend them to become part of more complete and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I write this it’s the wee hours of the morning. Josh and I spent the better part of Saturday working on the repeaters. We then took them up and re-installed them on the mountain. We got back to 911 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently had a chat with a Harris shop about programming the MASTR III radios. There are two important software packages that must be used by anyone doing anything serious with this radio. One is the basic progrmming utility. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cut a half pound of bacon strips into 1″ pieces. Fry bacon in a pot, remove from grease when nice and crispy but leave the grease. Add a half cup of popcorn to the bacon grease and pop. Combine the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I finally got around to correcting the ID’s on the 5.23 repeater. It was a good excuse for testing out the new Wouxun radio I got at work. (I love it!) This will document that programming for future reference. Maybe […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Darin Lehnert (KC7TIG) came over yesterday and we installed his IRLP / Echolink node at my place. Currently running 50 Watts into a J-Pole antenna at about 30′ on 147.55 MHz simplex (100.0 Hz tone required on your transmitter). This […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…