Packet Radio presentation
I gave a presentation on Packet Radio for my club, River City Amateur Radio Communication Society this week, here’s my slides from the presentation:
Revisiting Packet Radio on a Raspberry Pi with Direwolf: part 2 (minimal installation)
This is a continuation of part 1 here. To summarize the required steps to setup ax25 and Direwolf for software based packet radio, here’s the minimum steps need to get up and running: Install libasound2-dev and libudev-dev: sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev sudo apt-get install libudev-dev Clone the source for Direwolf, then build and install: git …
20m HF packet stations heard 11/3/21
I’ve played with VHF packet quite a bit but never experimented with HF packet. As an experiment I decided to start up my HF radio today and tune to 14.105 LSB with the UZ7HO software packet modem and leave it running during the day to see what I could hear and decode. Turns out there …
Troubleshooting serial terminal connections (VT Serial Terminal, VT132, Packet Radio TNCs) – part 2
In my previous post, I said I was going to test my two serial cables with every serial device I have to work out which combination worked and which didn’t to find out what the difference was. It didn’t take long to realize though that the DB25 to DB25 serial cable I have that I …