Tech Articles

This is an index of all technical articles published by the Wayne Technical Fanatics.

XLX330 Transcoder Changes

Some changes have been made to the Megalink Reflector XLX330. With decline in local DMR traffic and increase in YSF ...
/ / Repeater Status, Technical

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 ...
/ / Technical

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 ...
/ / Technical

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 ...
/ / Technical

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 ...
/ / News, Repeater Status, Technical

Injecting CTCSS with PiTone

As faithful readers of the (very occasional) posts to this site, there is a series on modifying and using the ...
/ / Technical

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 ...
/ / News, Technical
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More XLX330 Changes

Unfortunately, a few weeks after XLX330 Transcoding Stabilized the system starting having problems again. The problems continued to be primarily ...
/ / Technical

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 ...
/ / Technical
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More Updates – Transcoding Reflector

Back in August, I posed about some internal changes to the XLX330 Megalink transcoding reflector. The problem attempting to be ...
/ / Technical

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 ...
/ / Technical

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 ...
/ / Repeater Status, Technical
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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 ...
/ / Technical

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, ...
/ / Technical
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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 ...
/ / Technical

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 ...
/ / Contests, Technical

DR-1X Repeater Modifications for Digital Voice + Pi-STAR

This is the third in a series of three planned articles discussing the modification of Yaesu DR-1X repeaters for solid, ...
/ / Technical

Yaesu DR-1X Repeater Modification: Common Concerns

First Published: December 23, 2019Last Update: December 31, 2019 This is the first in a series of three planned articles ...
/ / Technical

Public Availability of the Megalink Reflector

WTF is pleased to announce the public availability of the Megalink Reflector for the D-STAR radio system. See the Megalink ...
/ / Technical, Uncategorized

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