After reading this post I couldn’t resist any longer. Yesterday I ordered the new toy, a Baofeng UV-B6 Chinese HT. Incredible price: 43 dollar! It can take up to 60 days before delivering so it will be no typical Christmas present. I like to use the HT to connect to my Kenwood TM-D710 en simplex…
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New amateur in town: KF5SLN
Only a few weeks he is officially a HAM amateur, Adam Curry, of the No Agenda podcast! Passed for his technician license recently, a few weeks later for his general and already he is studying for his extra in December 2012! Adam totally took a dive in Echolink and setup a conference server (EchoNode 3373),…
APRSd on a virtual machine
In the manual that came with my Kenwood TM-D710 I found a section about Automatic Packet Report System (APRS) and how to configure it. I thought it would be cool to configure my rig as an iBridge (repeater like option in APRS) to the internet. Then local packets my rig picks up, are being relayed…