Data Modes

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There’s a lot of different ways to transfer data. Of course there’s CW but I’m partial to psk31. Lately, I’ve been starting to experiment with other modes. I recently saw information online about a software TNC called Direwolf and I’ve also seen a project called ARDOP. I’m going to try Direwolf out and will try … Read more

Manually Program the Baofeng UV-82

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This is a quick and dirty guide to programming a memory channel into the Baofeng UV-82. If you’re in channel mode power off the radio, hold down the Menu button and power it on. The radio will go into frequency mode. All operations below are done from Frequency Mode… Here we go:A. Set up a … Read more

Raspberry Pi/TNC-Pi Setup/configuration

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This is a raw, working document intended to record how to set this up from scratch. Raspbian version: 2014-09-09-wheezy-raspbian.img 1. Setup the OS: Use caution on your target storage device: sudo dd bs=4M if=2014-09-09-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/sdb 2.  Boot the card and expand the file system, change password, configure ssh server, and set hostname… then reboot the … Read more

Self-blocking Script Kiddies

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For my non-technical family and friends you can tune out as this is a techie computer geek post. Like many I run a linux machine as a traffic cop at the edge of my network. I prefer to run Secure Shell (SSH) server on its standard port so that I can easily connect to it … Read more