Your Repeater, Your Rules

We teach new hams that nobody owns a frequency, and as such, they may use any frequency they wish as long as they follow the rules. This is generally correct, however, repeaters are special. Owners can set their own rules.

We teach new hams that nobody owns a frequency, and as such, they may use any frequency they wish as long as they follow the rules. This is generally correct, however, repeaters are special. Owners can set their own rules.



If you want to get into Packet or APRS but don’t want to spend a lot of money, at under $30, the NinoTNC may be right for you. It is the most inexpensive TNC I have found to date.


In the Radio-Wide settings – for TinyTrak, Kantronics, NinoTNC, possibly more…

The DMR community is in the process of re-engineering a number of talk groups on the DMR system. Here’s some background on what happened.
My new call sign is AD8G.
In a previous article, I described how to install a DS3231 real-time clock (RTC) in Raspbian Jessie – the following is an updated set of instructions for Stretch.