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Category Archives: AREN
TH-D72 Battery Life
So EI4HQ and I were discussing “toys” and presents in general, and he inquired about the TH-D72 and battery life. I purchased mine in November 2010 (G0HWW twisted my arm) and have used it for various things from AREN events, listening … Continue reading
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Sean Kelly Tour – a different view
And this is it… What has this got to do with the Sean Kelly Tour? well, the Sean Kelly Tour took place last Sunday (August 30th), and from all accounts it was quite successful with roughly 2700 hardy cyclists taking … Continue reading
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Delay Tolerant Networking over AX.25 & QSLs
I wrote in January that I had done some testing of Darren, G0HWW’s DTN over AX25 (also know as Packet Radio) Implementation. At the time we really only wanted to see if it worked. Since then I have been quite … Continue reading
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DTN over AX25 – Update.
Dissapointingly it has taken far to long to get back to this (see my earlier post), but recently Darren and I managed to be both online over the same few days to organise some testing. The infrastructure has changed slightly, … Continue reading
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Airmail2000 on Linux.
Airmail is “a message program specifically designed for connectioto a HF radio mailbox station.” it is “a 32-bit program which runs under Windows-95, 98, NT, 2000 or XP”. For the last few weeks I’ve been testing it on Ubuntu using … Continue reading
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Hams Called to Action!
From the ARRL NEWS: “On Monday, May 12 at 0628 UTC, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Sichuan, China. The Chinese Radio Sports Association, the Chinese IARU Member-Society, has designated the following frequencies for emergency services involved in the rescue: 14.270, … Continue reading
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World Amateur Radio Day, how was yours?
Mine was cold, very cold. Friday morning I posted to a mailing list in work that I was going to set up a station in the car-park, a few colleagues braved the elements and helped me set up a station … Continue reading
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Geosynchronous Birds.
At the Symposium AMSAT President Rick Hambly, W2GPS, along with Vice President of Engineering Bob McGwier, N4HY, were able to make public the results of their recent work, which will change the face of Amateur Radio going forward. AMSAT has … Continue reading
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DTN and AX.25
Almost 12 months ago Darren, G0HWW sent this post to the linux-hams mailing list. We exchanged some emails discussing how Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) could be used for Emergency Communications (being a classic store and forward network). In a DTN … Continue reading
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TM-D710 Kiss mode/EMCpup
Reports on mailing lists seem to indicate that the new Kenwood TM-D710 has a properly working KISS mode and works fine with Airmail. So it should work for TCP/IP as well. Not everyone likes all the new ‘features’, however, as … Continue reading
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