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Here’s the RSGB’s statement on the 2m WRC process:
https://rsgb.org/main/blog/front-page-news/2019/07/01/144-mhz-and-the-wrc-process/
tl;dr: please don’t sign any random badly worded petitions, we’re on it.
I think (as others have said) continuing to pay the RSGB for membership is probably the best course of action for now.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioCloudFlare will respond to DNS lookups on 2m FM. Awesome!
See birdsite: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1145383199297736704
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThe PiJuice zero looks nice. It’s a UPS/battery management HAT for Pi Zero:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/pi-supply/pijuice-zero/updates/the-pijuice-zero-campaign-is-now-live
This might be a fun way to make a mobile GPS based clock or maybe an APRS module, if it’s stackable with the boards @M0YNG has.
Pi Supply is a UK company, so I expect they’ll be available direct eventually for us brits ( https://uk.pi-supply.com/collections/pijuice has some larger HATs for full sized Pi boards), but the shipping cost seems fairly reasonable.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThis “The RFzero™ board is an Arduino compatible GPS based Si5351A RF signal source” looks pretty cool: http://www.rfzero.net/
Cost is ~£60, so not bad.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioJust read about this simple SDR in June’s QST mag: https://www.i2phd.org/armradio/index.html
What a neat (and small) project!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioOoh, just read that 2m crossed the Atlantic for the first time: https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2019/06/21/2m-crosses-the-atlantic/
Naturally, everybody’s favourite FT8 was involved 😀
Looking forward to reading more about this.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioHad fun at BSidesBristol today. Won a Pi 3B+! #infosec
→ View toot on mastodon.radioFinally got my Pi synced to the PPS pin on the GPS I plugged into it. It’s currently indoors with a small ceramic antenna, but works.
Software is gpsd and chrony, hardware is a cheap ublox board with a hirose u.fl connector and a patch antenna, soon to be replaced with a chinese outdoor antenna.
The Pi is a model b, configured to use the standard UART (ttyS0) not the better one (ttyACM0), but that might need to change.
I think it’ll be cool to add a little display with position/clock info.
Our stall at Westrally was busy! Manning it was good fun and stopped me buying too much junk.
Most interest was in G0VFS’ paddles but nobody bought them 💁🏼♂️
Looking forward to Westrally ( https://westrally.weebly.com/) tomorrow, in Frome.
I plan to help out on the T&DARC ( https://sites.google.com/view/tdarc/home) stall so it should be a fun day!
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