I just learned this, so, in case anyone else needs to know:

A #Yaesu #FT70DR can be powered by its charger as long as you don’t have the battery in.

My #YSF #PiStar is going to see a lot more use now that I don’t have to remember to keep my HT charged.

This is also going to make the #digirig I just ordered a lot more useful. I can put off buying a mobile radio that much longer now :D

Now to hack together a car 12V wire. . .

#hamr #DigitalModes

Do any of you amateur #radio nerds use an #MMDVM? I just got one and am setting it up, but I don't want to use #PiStar because it doesn't have an explicit open source license, and was last built on Debian 10 (oldoldstable).
So I'm trying to find sufficient documentation to do things manually, if at all possible. I *may* end up just doing a big write-up myself once I work it out, but if others have done similar things, it could save me some time. #DMR #HAMRadio #HotSpot

Well this evening I had a really good chat to friend in Germany via a #YSF reflector in the UK, and I was doing #DMR2YSF cross-over at my end and it worked really well, it was my first really world test for a #QSO of 30min plus with no real dropouts or distortion etc.

Very happy with my #W0CHP #PiStar #Dash doing the hard work of coverting DMR TG to YSF reflector as there was no real transcoding done as DMR & YSF use the same vocoder.

#hamradio #digital #duplex #hotspot

Not really active on digital voice modes, but nevertheless I do have a hotspot running Pi-Star, and I came across this new (to me) customized fork to get a new look and extra features. More info on the builder's page, W0CHP.
https://w0chp.net/w0chp-pistar-dash/
#hamr #DMR #YSF #DStar #DigitalVoice #PiStar

Well I have had a chance to play around with #W0CHP #PiStar Dash and it rather nice. I have #FreeDMR and #DMR2YSF cross-over running in both directions, it also seems to have fixed couple other annoyances I was having.

So will see how we going over the next month or so with it.

Next on the list is to deal with the Aliexpress SHARI clone I have, just need to do backup on old install to add to the new microSDHC I have #hamvoip installed on.

#hamradio #digital

new 32gb high endurance micro SD cards for #PiStar and #ASL nodes

Thanks to #dashcam community for the need for better and more reliable micro #sdcards

#hamradio #digital

Finally got off my arse and added #DMR2YSF to my #Pi-Star #hotspot, and it seems to working not to bad.

Seem traffic locally on the hotspot will go from dmr2ysf to dmr on the #Pride #Radio #Network but I can't hear anything going the opposite way 😿

Anyways it been fun, it kept me off the streets and out the pub 😹

At some stage I really should do up another SDCard and checkout #W0CHP #PiStar #Dash

https://w0chp.net/w0chp-pistar-dash/

#hamradio #digital #voice

Thank you for the activation. I am interested in many ham radio related topics...

#introducion #hamradio #dapnet #icom #yaesu #anytone #dmr #tgif #pistar #retevis #mmdvm #efhw #qrp #m5stack #raspberry #lorawan #cloudlog #rumlog

DAPNET pager setup seems to be working, up to a point. I'm seeing messages directed to the "us-mi" gateway (good), and seeing transmissions on my pi-star (good), but the Flipper Zero isn't hearing them (bad).

My best bet is that the pi-star is a little off frequency compared to the Flipper Zero and that I'll need to tweak the calibration. Time to get the SDR out to see what I can see.

If you are on DAPNET please page me at "w8emv" via "us-all" or "us-mi".

[ #dapnet #f0 #pocsag #pistar ]

wait, my #pistar has #POCSAG tx support!

some details at

https://einstein.amsterdam/?page_id=2130

Ticket open with DAPNET, since it's entirely possible that I could make this all work once I get all of the accounts configured.

[ #POCSAG #pistar #f0 #flipperzero #DAPNET ]

Okay, #HamRadio Mastodon, I have a question that I apparently need handholding to answer:

I have a #Radioddity #GD88 that I want to use to send #DMR SMS msgs to #SMSGTE.

I have DMR working. I have a #PiStar working and comms with #BrandMeister.

What specific steps do I need to take to actually get this thing to correctly send a DMR SMS to my phone?

Also trying to get #APRS text messaging working, but that seems like it might be a missing feature, not a lack of understanding.

#AmateurRadio

The #PiStar is officially in a case! I had to modify it a little bit to allow the camera cable to come through but it's nice and safe now. Looking forward to making lots of contacts on #DMR and #YaesuSystemFusion. 73, folks!

#HamRadio #3dPrinting #RaspberryPi #AmateurRadio

#POC #Pistar #WXscript #Openweathermap

T Temperature
M Max Temperature
N Low Temperature
L Humidty
W Wind speed
R Wind direction

Just for understanding howto to use Python for transmitting data via pistar-dapnetapi.

73

#POC #Pistar #WXscript #Openweathermap

T Temperature
M Max Temperature
N Low Temperature
L Humidty
W Wind speed
R Wind direction

Just for learning howto to use Python for transmitting data via pistar-dapnetapi.

73

#POC #Pistar #WXscript #Openweathermap

@gm4slv

John - thank you for the contact on #YSF 73737 (Fediverse). I had not used my FT5D and Pi-Star in awhile and it is good to know they are still operational.

You had an excellent signal on this end.

73 Scott N0ZB

#fusion #pistar

Checking into the All Canada DSTAR Net CANNET on XRF038A with NCS Doris VE5DJQ in Saskatoon 🇨🇦🇺🇸 #hamradio #id52 #pistar

No QSO yet...

As usual I get drawn into the technical investigations and forget to actually talk to someone!

I've set up a YSF reflector on my Cloud server : YSF #36650 so I can learn about them.

https://gm4slv.org.uk/YSFDash/

Then I built a 2m "real" simplex gateway with Pi-Star, an MMDVM baseband interface board an a Yaesu FT8900 in 9600bd packet mode.

http://gm4slv.plus.com:8080/

Perhaps another day I might speak to someone on the radio (?)

#ysf #hamradio #pistar

Was going to monitor some #DMR talkgroups today while I work but it turns out I accidentally deleted the ENTIRE CONFIG on my #PiStar hotspot and I'm too lazy to reconfigure my FreeDMR connection so I guess I'm not.

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio

Managed to get my hands on a Pi model 3A+ #MOD3AP to upgrade my #pistar from a 1A+.

Pis are damn near impossible to get at the moment... so filling out all of the "Notify Me"s paid off nicely.