Day 3: Albuquerque to Gallup
My original plan was breakfast at the 66 Diner… but they didn’t open till 11. So we went to another place – GREAT food. From there, I decided it was…
Day 2: Amarillo to Albuquerque
I got an early-ish start in Amarillo. Side note – don’t stay at the “Yellow City Suites” in Amarillo… well.. unless you don’t mind stairs (the elevator was broke and…
Day 1: Shamrock to Amarillo
My original trip plan was to spend the day in Amarillo… drive from Weatherford, TX to Amarillo and spend the night. As I was starting off my journey, I realized…
An update to the box for going places
I’m still working on the headset interface box to allow use of inexpensive plantronics wired headsets with common amateur radios. My original post looking into this The problem with straight…
APRS Vol 5. The Saga Continues
Maiden voyage was a flop. No tracks appeared at all – I’m not 100% sure if it transmitted, but I’ve had a feeling the audio was weak. Add to that…
Revisiting APRS… vol 4.
I’m far from done. Let’s start there. But… I have made a LOT of progress since I started smoking the first TNC board. Smoked a turkey in that timeframe, too…
APRS – Update 2, or is it Vol 3?
Normally, I’d just edit the previous post when it’s the same day,. but this has a lot to unpack. I pinged a few fellow nerds who I know are prone…
APRS – Update 1
I’ve been doing a LOT of troubleshooting and trying to figure this thing out. Ordered a new breadboard (old one had some shorted lines), and a bunch of wires. Ordered…
APRS… haven’t tackled this in a while
My anytone 578 is acting up. Seems like a bad oscillator. I could do one of two things… I could take it out and try and track down the issue,…
Weather Alert Page
Just another mini-project, and more Chat-GPT generated code based on my prompts. This started otu in the middle of a (slow) weather net, when i was looking for a source…