One thing that I’ve wanted to do is to run an RMS Gateway that provides packet and VARA FM protocols on an IC-7100. I’d read
Earning awards like ARRL Worked All States (WAS) is fun. One thing some folks’ qrz.com pages have are award images from awards that are unfamiliar.
Off and on and at random times, JTAlert has gone into a Not Responding state, increasingly more so in recent weeks. It has been a
When trying to use Dire Wolf with the IC-7100 on Windows, PTT doesn’t work. From what I’ve seen, several software packages support CAT controls, but
I ran across DSDPlus, an application that apparently will decode various digital modes, including DMR. I don’t have a DMR radio, so I thought it
While testing a new hotspot on a radio that I thought I’d used with D-Star before, traffic could be heard on the local hotspot, but
An OpenSpot2 arrived on my doorstep the other day. After using a pi-star hotspot for a bit, I was excited to try it out. After
I’ve been playing with a test XLX Multiprotocol Gateway Reflector and it is using a reflector number that is already in use because I don’t
After getting the satellite information together, it was time for a draft run – listening to satellites as they passed. With an Arrow antenna in
A nice thing about amateur radio is that the hobby covers so many things. Today, I’m interested in satellites. I’m getting my thoughts together on