SteppIR Antenna and Station Integration (Update)
Well, the original configuration (SteppIR controller passing commands between the radio and PW-1) worked… for a while. I suspect there was some collision or synchronization that fell out of timing…
Mini1300 Antenna Analyzer: Initial Impressions
I’ll spare the reader yet another glowing review for the Mini1300 analyzer. No I won’t – I’m still going to spew my thoughts on this thing. I picked one up…
SteppIR Antenna thoughts
Background Last year, I acquired a SteppIR “SmallIR 80” antenna… This is their “SmallIR” 20 – 6 vertical, with an additional coil for 30/40/80 meters. I don’t know if it’s…
Icom 7300 Front Panel Interface Box
I love the Icom 7300 – it has a TON of features. One of the intriguing features is the voice keyer – the radio has 8 memory slots, four of…
Behringer HA400 mod
I enjoy contesting…. and often do so with a second person as a logger. A couple years back, I picked up a behringer HA400 to split audio between 2 sets…
Some DMR programming thoughts (a draft post)
So… I am by NO means an expert… but I’ve had some thoughts on DMR programming before, and I have some additional thoughts to share. Contacts The radio can support…
Picking apart the MMDVM DMR Gateway .INI file
So, I’ve been having a LOT of trouble getting my MMDVM to cooperate and pass Brandmeister traffic…I could connect to the TGIF network, and got green lights on the Pi-star…
Anytone 878 – Talk Permit Tones
This is a short post… just something I didn’t want to lose, and can no longer find the original source for. The talk permit and post-call tones are, to say…
DMR – Multiple Networks on a single MMDVM
I’ll start with the link: In the past, I’ve tried manually configuring networks, with no luck – but by copying the above networks (I disabled DMR+, just because I don’t…
Wire gauge – what is really overkill?
So another mobile install, and more worries about how much space I have for wire….. things are always tight. I’ve been trying to plan this one out a bit, and…