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This is a highly customisable application that draws in all sorts of technical information that can help radio amateurs. Each pane can be changed to show relevant information. What I really like is the frequency […]
A lot of hams like to carry a VHF radio. Of course, nearly everyone wants to carry a phone. Now, thanks to the kv4p HT, you don’t have to carry both. The open-source device connects […]
It does make a lot of sense as the more modern digital modes we’ve seen over ham radio, achieve the same with less bandwidth required, more accurate transmission, and better weak signal support. It’s true […]
I featured my OpenWebRx receiver about a year or two back, which allows you to use any desktop or mobile browser, to be able to listen to various radio transmissions that are received at my […]
As I’m often having to choose how to use what digital mode on different radios that I have, it has meant also trying to understand which device works with which radio, and what modes it […]
This is at least apparent for what I’m observing in my country on the Southern tip of Africa. The reason seems to be that VarAC provides most of the functions that JS8Call already provides, and […]
Winlink (amateur radio e-mail over radio) has been available for Android for a while. It has just become available as a public beta now for iOS too. It won’t only connect via TCP/IP though, it […]
On 29th October 2022 various countries in Region 1 of the IARU (International Amateur Radio Union) conducted an exercise to test emergency radio communications via the QO-100 satellite. This exercise allowed us to test mobile […]
Default Winlink RMS Gateways using 2m Packet radio REJECT all messages if the Internet is down! I thought I’d do a webpage about this specifically as most articles seem to deal with automatic fallback on […]
WoAD brings the functionality of the Winlink Global Radio E-mail® system to your Android device. Using WoAD you can send and receive e-mail messages through a Winlink Common Message Server (CMS), using either a VHF/UHF […]