There is a APRS-hole in my daily commute route. On my daily bike ride of 18 kilometers (11,2 miles) one way I have APRS switched on on my Kenwood TH-D72. The Netherlands has a pretty wide network of APRS digipeaters. When my packets hits one of those digipeaters, I’ll show up on aprs.fi. Because of…
Antenna with 80 km/h
Stormy weather here at the moment. Very strong winds (50 – 80 km/h) from west south west. Antenna mast is dancing around, great to film! On top of the mast is my Diamond X200-N mounted which covers the 2 meter and 70 centimeter band. It is connected to my Kenwood TM-D710. Directly underneath the Diamond…
Unpacking Kenwood TH-D72
Since early 2012 I do my daily commute by bike. It’s a 18 kilometers (11 miles) one way so I have a little 50 minutes to kill per ride. Mischa PA1OKZ, manager of the local repeater PI2NOS started an experiment earlier this year connecting more then one receiver to the repeater. The second receiver is…