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VarAC digital chatting on Amateur Radio seems to be getting more popular than JS8Call

2023-10-152023-10-15 Danie
Vara-HF screenshot showing at the bottom a green coloured waterfall of the spectrum with some smudges where the signal is represented. Above it are half-moon gauges showing Audio Input as -13 dB, a CPU usage one showing 15%, an AFC guage without a needle, and at S/N gauge showing -3.3 dB. This is all detail showing the radio connection signal stats.

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 […]

Blogamateurradio, digitalmodes, hamradio, technology, VarAC

Winlink by RadioMail is now available in TestFlight beta for iOS

2022-11-242022-11-24 Danie
Screenshot of the Winlink app for iOS showing map location and some stations

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 […]

1 CommentBlogamateurradio, hamradio, ios, technology, winlink

HAMNET Western Cape conducted a successful emergency radio communications exercise via the QO-100 satellite today to Europe and Middle Eastern countries

2022-10-292022-10-29 Danie
qo 100

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 […]

Blog#qo100, hamnet, hamradio, southafrica, technology

How to run a Winlink RMS Gateway in VHF Packet mode as stand alone Radio-only

2022-09-302022-09-30 Danie
Winlink

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 […]

Blogamateurradio, disasters, hamradio, technology, winlink

WoAD brings Winlink e-mail functionality to Android devices using either a VHF/UHF packet or internet connection

2022-09-262022-09-26 Danie
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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 […]

Blogamateurradio, hamradio, technology, winlink, woad

Radio Mobile Online is a radio wave propagation prediction tool to simulate radio transmissions between two sites

2022-07-012022-07-01 Danie
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Radio Mobile Online is a radio wave propagation prediction tool created and maintained by Roger CoudĂ©, VE2DBE, which is dedicated for use by the ham radio community. As indicated on the Radio Mobile Online website, […]

Blog#propagation, amateurradio, hamradio, technology

SDR-Control for iOS is a Software Defined Radio client app for remote DX’ing with some Icom Transceivers

2022-04-172022-04-17 Danie
SDRControl

SDR-Control is a full featured iPad App to operate your Icom Transceiver at home or from around the world without additional hard- or software. But yes it is limited to working with your Icom IC-705, […]

Blog#icom, #sdrcontrol, amateurradio, hamradio, technology

How to install DroidStar on iPhone to Rx/Tx on D-STAR, DMR, Fusion YSF/FCS, NXDN, P25, M17, and IAX (AllStar client) over UDP for Ham Radio digital modes

2021-05-082022-05-15 Danie

Android users have had the Droid-Star app for this purpose for quite a while but recently a beta version for iOS has surfaced which can be tried by ham radio operators on the iPhone. The […]

Blogamateurradio, DMR, droidstar, hamradio, iphone, radio

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