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How much fun is FT8?

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:30:29 +0000

In 10 days time, I have had 111 QSOs with: 18 countries 12 CQ zones 13 ITU zones 5 continents 31 states All this mostly on 40 meters on a homemade dipole (which isn’t that great!) at 20 watts. Who knew that HF could be THAT kind of fun?

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An Inexpensive Digipeater for WinLink (Part 1)

billh — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 21:29:05 +0000

In this article, we will explore a relatively inexpensive digipeater solution to extend the range of a private WinLink Express network. The growth of our local WinLink Express network has demanded that we extend the range, in at least two directions, for new users to be able to access the Linbpq BBS system that is […]

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Fall 2018 and DMR Repeaters

billh — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:59:30 +0000

I am embarrassed that a year ago I promised to write more here on my blog. As you can see, I haven’t. So I think it’s time to write about something interesting. For the last year or so, I have become interested in the growth of DMR in the Ham radio world. DMR, simply put, […]

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A Fall Vision!

billh — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 02:17:22 +0000

It seems like it’s been forever since I’ve posted here. I guess in some ways, that’s a good thing because since the middle of last December, I’ve been incredibly busy! The biggest thing that caused my busyness is that I got a job. A job that I can work from right here at home. That […]

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Wow, Where Has the Time Gone?

billh — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 23:20:19 +0000

It’s hard to believe that my last post here was back in November of last year! Well, I’ve been just a little bit busy! I’ll tell you about it all, but probably not this evening. I’ve expended my energy quota for the day! Thanks for caring. I’ll get back with you all soon! […]

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A Truly Amazing Woman

billh — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:31:02 +0000

This week, President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to some very deserving people. Mostly in the news, all you heard about were the Hollywood celebrities and musical artists, but I’ll bet the news never mentioned Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Admiral Hopper was a fundamental contributor in the early days of computing, one of […]

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Raspberry Pi 3 + RIM Lite + Software + Headscratching = AllStar Link Node

billh — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 00:46:13 +0000

Ok, so I had built an AllStar Link node before (two actually, see some previous posts here) and I was feeling all great about myself and stuff. I proposed to the club that we purchase a Raspberry Pi 3, a RIM Lite interface and with these things, we could build a new repeater controller for […]

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AllStar Link Presentation at the SARC Meeting

billh — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 15:54:36 +0000

At the September 8th meeting of the Sullivan Amateur Radio Club, I gave a presentation about AllStar Link and the changeover of our EchoLink node to AllStar Link. You can view the Powerpoint presentation at the link below: http://wshiggins.net/sarc-allstar-link-presentation-09082016/

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AllStarLink is EchoLink on Steroids!

billh — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 17:19:18 +0000

Ok, so a few posts ago, I lamented about how EchoLink was sorta boring. And because I felt that way, I undertook a project to evolve my traditional Windows based EchoLink node to an AllStarLink node (with an EchoLink channel!) Well, after a couple of weeks of learning AllStarLink, and sorting out a malfunctioning interface module, it’s […]

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Just when you think you know what’s going on…

billh — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 23:43:02 +0000

I’m really not sure I understand. Why is it that when I think I have the real lowdown on things I always get tripped up? It’s been happening all week and I don’t know how to stop it. I hope that someone has figured this out and has some good advice…

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