Thoughts on Kenwood NXR Repeaters for Amateur Radio
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Kenwood in its various incarnations has been a well-known name in the radio world since the 1960s. While Kenwood is well-known specifically in amateur radio for it’s HT, mobile, and base station radios, it is also a maker of repeater radios. Most well-known from Kenwood for amateur repeaters is likely…
XLX330 Transcoder Changes
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Some changes have been made to the Megalink Reflector XLX330. With decline in local DMR traffic and increase in YSF traffic, it has been decided to terminate the cross-mode linking of DMR BM 311070 into YSF/DMR Room #83603. The default connections have changed. DCS330A/XLX330A is still the preferred D-STAR connection…
Low-Viz Rain Gutter Antenna Mount
Rittman Watertower Site EOL
Building an APRS Two-Way IGate (2023)
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Recently WW8TF-15 was upgraded to Debian 12. Since WW8TF-15 runs on a Raspberry Pi, it was also a good time to replace the SD Card. Starting over from scratch gave an opportunity to review and revisit this info for 2023. Here’s how to build an easy two-way APRS IGate with existing or easily obtainable parts.