Category Archives: software

Bodging yfklog

Posted on November 9, 2012 by j0n

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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CQIR and Yfktest

Posted on March 7, 2012 by j0n

2012 is the 80th anniversary of the founding of our national Amateur Radio society, the Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS). To mark it, the IRTS is organising an Amateur Radio Contest, like any contest, there will be different categories for … Continue reading →

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Xastir gets OSM

Posted on June 12, 2010 by j0n

Pretty much what it says. Last Wednesday Xastir got OpenStreetMap support in CVS courtesy of Jerry Dunmire, KA6HLD. Even though Jerry says its early days yet, it is “good enough” for me already. Way to go Jerry!

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Trust no one.

Posted on March 11, 2010 by j0n

Great videos on how one can capture data that is unintentionally transmitted by interconnecting cables. The receiver used is a Software Defined Radio, specifically the Ettus Research USRP. The software is based on the GNU Radio suite.

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Electricity Usage.

Posted on October 15, 2009 by j0n

I’d been meaning for ages to purchase something to measure power consumption in the house. Earlier this week, a work colleague reminded me about it, so I went and purchased one. My Current Cost Envi arrived just before 8am this … Continue reading →

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paclink-unix

Posted on May 26, 2009 by j0n

I posted before about using the Airmail through Wine on Linux to access the Winlink system. It’s fine, it works, but it is a lot of overhead. Recently, in a response to a question, Dana, KA1WPM posted to one of … Continue reading →

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TM-D710E

Posted on September 11, 2007 by j0n

As a follow-up to my previous post the Kenwood TM-D710E (E for Europe) is available and shipping. Now there is another question waiting to be answered, is it any good in KISS mode? No one seems to know for sure, … Continue reading →

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Mobile IPv6 on the N770

Posted on August 10, 2007 by j0n

Following up from my earlier post. To save someone the trouble of building MIPL for Linux for the N770, you can find a Linux kernel here and mip6d here. I’ve been trying the kernel out using the following command to … Continue reading →

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D-Star

Posted on June 13, 2007 by j0n

I was reading the July edition of Monitoring Monthly and came across an article by Paul Marsh. In it he mentioned a home-brew D-Star transciever designed and built by Moe, AE4JY and detailed here. Thanks for the info Paul, kudos … Continue reading →

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GAISS progress.

Posted on May 23, 2007 by j0n

I’ve mentioned before the GAISS project (here and here). It wasn’t in the original plan, but we are now receiving the MAP27 information from the ‘base’ radio, and making them available for a small conversion appplication that re-transmits them on … Continue reading →

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