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DStar Life Hack: Is the station local on the repeater? APRS.fi is not APRS-IS Compile and install the latest DStarRepeater in Pi-Star REF, XRF, DCS, XLX: what’s the difference ? Compile and install the latest ircddbGateway in Pi-Star

DStar Life Hack: Is the station local on the repeater?

While listening to a QSO on a DStar repeater have you ever wondered how to know if the station you are listening to is local...

APRS.fi is not APRS-IS

There is a widespread belief that aprs.fi is the internet backbone of the APRS network. It is not uncommon to read posts on social networks...

Compile and install the latest DStarRepeater in Pi-Star

After publishing my article about updating ircDDBGateway in Pi-Star I received messages about how to update DStarRepeater as Pi-Star also ships with a quite outdated...

REF, XRF, DCS, XLX: what’s the difference ?

This is a question often raised by beginners to DStar : what is the difference between all those reflector types? I’ll try to give you...

Compile and install the latest ircddbGateway in Pi-Star

Pi-Star allows everyone to setup and run a digital voice Hotspot easily, its ease of use largely contributed to the late Hotspot invasion. However, the...
  • DStar Life Hack: Is the station local on the repeater?

    While listening to a QSO on a DStar repeater have you ever wondered how to know if the station you are listening to is local on the repeater or coming from a distant source (reflector, other repeater etc…)? BTW, I wrote this because I assume there are still people out…

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    Geoffrey F4FXL December 26, 2018 December 26, 2018DStar, DStar Explained dstar, gateway, local, repeater 0

    APRS.fi is not APRS-IS

    There is a widespread belief that aprs.fi is the internet backbone of the APRS network. It is not uncommon to read posts on social networks saying “I am connecting to aprs.fi with aprsdroid” or “I need a password for aprs.fi”. Let’s see how and why this is erroneous.

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    Geoffrey F4FXL November 25, 2018 November 26, 2018APRS, APRS Explained aprs, aprs-is, aprs.fi 1

    Compile and install the latest DStarRepeater in Pi-Star

    After publishing my article about updating ircDDBGateway in Pi-Star I received messages about how to update DStarRepeater as Pi-Star also ships with a quite outdated DStarRepeater. Updating it will get you the ability to use your ID51+2 and ID4100 in terminal mode.

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    Geoffrey F4FXL November 14, 2018 November 25, 2018DStar d-star, dstar, dstarrepeater, g4klx, icom, id4100, id51, pi-star 0

    REF, XRF, DCS, XLX: what’s the difference ?

    This is a question often raised by beginners to DStar : what is the difference between all those reflector types? I’ll try to give you an insight on this throughout this article.

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    Geoffrey F4FXL November 8, 2018 November 8, 2018DStar, DStar Explained d-star, DCS, dstar, REF, reflectors, XLX, XRF 2

    Compile and install the latest ircddbGateway in Pi-Star

    Pi-Star allows everyone to setup and run a digital voice Hotspot easily, its ease of use largely contributed to the late Hotspot invasion. However, the DStar software shipping with it is quite outdated. It is a version dating back from 2015 and it misses some nice features : Forwarding DPRS…

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    Geoffrey F4FXL November 4, 2018 November 25, 2018DStar d-star, g4klx, ircddbgateway, pi-star 15

    Oops! I did it again!

    No, I am not writing a blog exclusively about the TYT TH9000D. However I actually managed to run into the dreaded gibberish characters issue for a second time and to  recover the radio!

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    Geoffrey F4FXL March 31, 2018 November 4, 2018APRS cpu locked, th-9000d, tyt 1

    APRS with Tinytrak 4 and TYT TH-9000D

    TYT TH-9000D with Tinytrak 4 for APRS

    After a couple of frustrations (here and here) I have finally managed to get my TYT TH-9000D running quite well with my Tinytrak 4. After a few weeks using it I must say I am quite pleased with the result, the TH-9000D is sensitive and there are not many APRS…

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    Geoffrey F4FXL February 23, 2018 March 31, 2018APRS aprs, th-9000d, tinytrak, tyt 1

    Solved TYT TH-9000D Gibberish Characters / Locked CPU Issue

      Next episode of my TYT TH-9000D for APRS adventures (first episode here). Somehow I managed to run into the gibberish characters issue, after swearing a few minutes I went to my friend Google only to find out that people had the same issue. Some people even posting “contact me…

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    Geoffrey F4FXL January 30, 2018 November 9, 2018APRS cpu locked, gibberish, th-9000d, tyt 7

    And so I wanted to use a TYT TH-9000D for APRS …

    TYT TH-9000D for APRS

    I was in the market for another radio for my mobile APRS operations. After reading various articles (here and here) about the ability to add a D-SUB9 connector with all relevant signals for that matter. I ordered one, and it was there a few days later. Before modding the radio…

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    Geoffrey F4FXL January 28, 2018 November 9, 2018APRS aprs, problem, tyt 4

    Upload compiled sketch to Arduino Due using command line

    So I had my Arduino Due based MMDVM up and running on the hill top and wanted to upload new firmware to it without driving 30km up to the repeater site. The Raspberry Pi3 it is connected to is completely headless, no desktop, no vnc … only ssh. I tried…

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    Geoffrey F4FXL January 7, 2018 November 8, 2018Arduino arduino due, mmdvm 0

    Motorola R100 Repeater goes digital

    Introduction I came across a Motorola R100 repeater, those were very capable low to mid duty repeaters in the late 80s up to the 21st century, yet some of them are still in commercial use. What follows is more or less a memo on how I converted it for digital…

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    Geoffrey F4FXL January 6, 2018 November 4, 2018DStar dmr, dstar, mmdvm, motorola, repeater 0

    Back Online

    So it is finally here, after a server crash this summer I am resurrecting my website. As I have always been too lazy to make backups, most of prior content is lost, but this is not a big deal as some stuff was out of date. From then on this…

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    Geoffrey F4FXL January 5, 2018 November 5, 2018Uncategorized 0
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