The newest update to Pi-Star enabled POCSAG paging from DAPNET ( Decentralized amateur paging network) Amateur Paging has been around for 20 years and is very big in Europe especially Germany. I will be enabling the POCSAG feature on VO1UHF which will allow access to the DAPNET system. http://hampager.de Usable Pagers Skyper QUIX AlphaPOC TPL … Continue reading POCSAG Amateur Radio Paging
With the most recent updates to Pi-Star we can now offer DMR2NXDN cross over on the VO1UHF repeater. Since we are using a Raspberry Pi 3 we cannot support NXDN on the repeater but we can cross convert DMR into the NXDN network. NXDN is the native digital mode created by Kenwood and Icom under … Continue reading DMR 2 NXDN Cross Over
Just an update on the VO1UHF multimode repeater. i have disabled the Wires-X due to limitations of my location and the loss of the node computer (again) so i have gone ahead and turn on the YSF and FCS network ( will explain connection below) the D-Star has not been used so i have turned … Continue reading Repeater update
Finally after a few months of waiting FCS has been added to the MMDVM host. FCS is the System Fusion ( C4FM ) network use by DV4Mini and the Shark RF. MMDVM has its own System Fusion network known as YSF. I have tested it on our repeater and my own hotspot. It works really … Continue reading FCS Network
Over the weekend the trust IBM Thinkpad T42p decided that it did not like its network adapters, so some users of the Wires-X system would notice that they would get a system prompt but the rooms were offline. even though the software was running there was no internet connection. After the AVRAC meeting this evening … Continue reading Wires-X Restored
There have been some issues with the wires-x node connecting VO1UHF to the network,. I have tried several things to maintain stability in the link between the radio and the repeater. Late last evening something popped into my head, something that should have been #1 on my list of things to check.... Impedance of the … Continue reading Antenna importance
Good Evening everyone! I have done some codeplug updates to the most popular radios, please find them on the google drive. There is a code plug for each of the following radios. be sure to set your callsign and DMR ID for use in your radio. TYT MD380/Retevis 81 MD-2017/Retevis 82 Radioddity GD-77 Retevis Ailunce … Continue reading DMR Codeplug updates
I received an email this afternoon from Ben who is the main administrator for the Brandmeister server Canada. There have been some updates to things like talkgroups and the wiki for the server. Newfoundland is assigned the talkgroup 3020 so we will slowly move from talkgroup 302002 as our local talkgroup to 3020. Commands … Continue reading Updates to Brandmeister
Some people are having issues with using wires x.mode. Here is a video explaining it.
**Update** Retevis released an update to the HD1 yesturday, it removed the annoying " Missed Call " Screen and fixed some of the bugs that the radio was having, i have gotten use to most of these bugs and now that they are removed the radio performs great. I use this radio as my primary … Continue reading Ailunce HD1
