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Had a fun morning at the Chippenham Radio Rally.
It was smaller than the others I’ve been to but it was my favourite so far in terms of stalls.
It was great to catch up with the GQRP/Bath Training guys who were there. But I wonder why my local club didn’t have a stall.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThis is an interesting read:
Exploring The Raspberry Pi 4 USB-C Issue In-Depth
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/exploring-the-raspberry-pi-4-usb-c-issue-in-depth/
→ View toot on mastodon.radioWSJT-X 2.1.0 has been released:
https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/36718281/
The main addition is the FT4 mode, but quoting the release message:
Improvements have also been made in the following areas:
FT8 waveform generation using GMSK, fully backward compatible
user options for low-sidelobe waterfall and spectrum display
UDP messaging for inter-program communication
accessibility
… as well as many minor enhancements and bug fixes.
Release notes at: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt
→ View toot on mastodon.radio“The Antuino is an Antenna Analyzer and a compact RF lab for the homebrewers”
This look cool, I like the big control knob: http://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/antuino/
#antennas #hamradio #amateurradio
→ View toot on mastodon.radioHere’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.
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