As I continue to learn about digital modes and ham radio, I was intrigued with the idea of testing ax.25 vs ardop in real world situations. As it turns out, I had no idea what I was getting myself into! It was one of the most painful Linux setups …

Been a little busy lately, but I still managed to find a little bit of time to play around with my TS-820 and laptop. I was using the signalink usb to listen in on other people's CW conversation. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the CW transmitting to work with my setup …

Lately I've been playing around with old school Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). This is something that you can still do over the internet, but it also is something you can do on HAM radio. I was testing out several clients recently, and one that I had to compile was a …

In my last post, I talked about using FLRIG and rig control in dummy mode to work with PAT and Ardop to send and receive emails. That worked pretty well, but is difficult to set up and do, as you have to perform all the functions manually. If you have …

Last post I talked about trying to use PAT, and it wasn't working very well for me. I had set up PAT and Ardop, but I kept getting errors and couldn't start trying to connect. Essentially, since Ardop couldn't talk to the radio, it assumed it wasn't on and couldn't …

If you've spent some time reading this blog, you will probably realize that I like techie things. In particular, I like cell phones and computers and radios. So it is really fun to me when these three separate hobbies start to converge. That's kind of where we are today with …

In my continued efforts to use digital modes with my tube radio, I've decided that FT-8 wasn't my cup of tea. I've done a bit of FT-8, and that was really neat to learn about and make work, but to be honest, it wasn't very fun to "do". With FT-8 …

All I really wanted was to use GridTracker. It's a program that maps your contacts live as you are using digital modes like FT8. The problem was, there wasn't an easy way to install it on Ubuntu. Well, easy is debatable, but there certainly was no deb package that you …

While I don't think this is my favorite way to pass the time, I've been enjoying trying out different digital modes, including FT8. I've posted about it before, when I was just listening in, now that I've got a general class license, I've been responding and making a few contacts …

Over the past couple months, I've been slowly working my way into the digital HAM radio scene. It's been a lot of fun, but a little slow going, as some things were not as obvious as they at first seemed. It's taken quite a while to learn the "ins and …