Author Archives: j0n

About j0n

Married, 4 radios, no cats or dogs, one stove!

EI2GEO

This weekend, the South Eastern Amateur Radio Group (SEARG) will be on the air as EI2GEO from a site in Tankardstown, Co. Waterford. This site is within the the Copper Coast European Geopark which is located on the South East … Continue reading

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Mirabox Kernel update

So the background is that I have a lovely little unit called a Mirabox but I need to update the kernel on it.   I spent a good bit of time looking at various forums and eventually managed to piece together … Continue reading

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My received phonesat packets.

I was travelling with work most of last week, but set up my machine to see if it could receive AX.25 packets from and of the phonesat satellites (which have since de-orbited). I was surprised to find these in my … Continue reading

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Kenwood TH-D72, Duracell vs Lithium.

In keeping in the battery longevity theme here and here, recently, Don, AB1PH posted to the Yahoo TH-D72 group about some testing he did with primary cell batteries in the BT-15 AAA Holder.  Don compared Everready Ultimate Lithium (L92) batteries, … Continue reading

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Wardriving and D-STAR Digital Data

I’m slowly working towards doing some experiments with mesh networking (OLSR) and Icom ID-1 D-star Radios in Digital Data mode.  I’ve been wondering what coverage I would (should) see from a vehicle, back to one of the locations where I … Continue reading

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6Y0A and yfktest.

Well, we made it to 2013. First up on the radio agenda this year was the January Irish Radio Transmitter Society 80 Meter band Counties Contest. I hadn’t planned to enter the contest this year, but, the day before, I … Continue reading

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Bodging yfklog

To borrow a phrase from Darren, G0HWW. I did a bit of bodging of yfklog over last weekend. I couldn’t figure out how to get the existing code to talk to qrz.com, so after a bit of bodging with the … Continue reading

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Micro PV

So, having moved the garden shed and the PV panels in August/September 2011 to a more sun friendly position, I was pretty sure that there would be more output from the system over the next 12 months. Now, that 12 … Continue reading

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Earth Observation

So there I was a few weekends ago, wandering around the indoor hall at the UK’s National Hamfest (held just outside Newark). I had just left some items at the Bring and Buy, was browsing the stalls and I came … Continue reading

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Moving on.

About 9 Years ago I got involved in IrishWAN. It was great fun at the time getting links set up, upgrading to the newest and coolest kit, helping others get nodes running, getting new people connected, all who hadn’t a … Continue reading

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