A quick, practical intro to D-STAR: what the MY, UR, RPT1 and RPT2 fields actually do, how a hotspot gets you onto a reflector, and the one radio setting that kept me talking to nobody.
> amateur-radio · dstar · hotspot · raspberry-pi · icom
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A quick, practical intro to D-STAR: what the MY, UR, RPT1 and RPT2 fields actually do, how a hotspot gets you onto a reflector, and the one radio setting that kept me talking to nobody.
> amateur-radio · dstar · hotspot · raspberry-pi · icom
goatHAM is my new Android app for POTA, SOTA, WWFF and TOTA — named after the SOTA Mountain Goat award, with a live spot feed, offline parks and summits, and a log built to be worked one-handed in…
> amateur-radio · goatham · sota · pota · wwff · tota · android · flutter
Building a cheap USB programming cable for the Motorola GM950 with a USB-TTL module, one diode and one resistor
> amateur-radio · motorola · diy · electronics · radio-programming · hardware