This is an index of all technical articles published by the Wayne Technical Fanatics.
KE8LDG off air and WW8TF rebirth
The KE8LDG repeater on 442.7375 in Rittman will be off the air until further notice. To replace it, the WW8TF ...
Transcoder Stability for XLX330
It's been almost a year since XLX330 removed transcoding into BrandMeister and it's been almost a year since I had ...
Using RT Systems Cables with CHIRP
Awhile back, I obtained an RT Systems programming cable for a radio. However, as I don't use RT Systems software, ...
Thoughts on Kenwood NXR Repeaters for Amateur Radio
Kenwood in its various incarnations has been a well-known name in the radio world since the 1960s. While Kenwood is ...
XLX330 Transcoder Changes
Some changes have been made to the Megalink Reflector XLX330. With decline in local DMR traffic and increase in YSF ...
Low-Viz Rain Gutter Antenna Mount
For years, I've been wanting to put a VHF/UHF dual-bander in my home office. Two things have stopped me from ...
Building an APRS Two-Way IGate (2023)
This is an update of an article first published in November 2020. It is updated for changes to the direwolf ...
Yaesu 8900 with Standard Mic
The Yaesu FT-8900 is an absolutely terrific radio and it was a sad day when it was discontinued by Yaesu ...
KE8LDH 442.5125 News
Antenna for KE8LDH and WW8TF-15 KE8LDH 442.5125+ is back on the air for real! After previously bringing the repeater back ...
Injecting CTCSS with PiTone
As faithful readers of the (very occasional) posts to this site, there is a series on modifying and using the ...
KE8LDH On the Air
KE8LDH 442.5125 MHz is back on the air. Currently it is setup as a (very) low profile machine in the ...
More XLX330 Changes
Unfortunately, a few weeks after XLX330 Transcoding Stabilized the system starting having problems again. The problems continued to be primarily ...
XLX330 Transcoding Stabilized
After a long, hard slog against what is obviously a first-world problem, the stability problems with the XLX330 reflector's transcoding ...
More Updates – Transcoding Reflector
Back in August, I posed about some internal changes to the XLX330 Megalink transcoding reflector. The problem attempting to be ...
Building an APRS IGate
This document was replaced in with Building an APRS Two-Way IGate (2023) to include updates to direwolf and Debian. This ...
WOOSTR APRS digi on the air
The WOOSTR APRS digi went on the air October 16th, 2020, and serves Wayne and surrounding counties and the greater ...
Updates to the Transcoding Reflector
Back in March, the build and configuration of the XLX330 reflector was discussed in depth. Since then, to keep costs ...
DR-1X Repeater Mods for Analog + Allstar
This is the second in a series of three planned articles discussing the modification of Yaesu DR-1X repeaters for solid, ...
Building a Transcoding XLX Reflector Pi
These directions should aid in building a complete, production-ready XLXD transcoding reflector using the XLX Multiprotocol Gateway software by Jean-Luc ...
Recordings from 2020 Ohio ARES VHF Simplex Contest
The 2020 Ohio ARES VHF Simplex contest was a lot of fun for all of us that participated. You can ...
