Category Archives: Digital ops
First Richmond NXDN Repeater Is On The Air
Richmond’s first NXDN repeater is on the air. It is a digital/analog mixed mode Icom IC-FR6000 repeater located in Ashland, VA. This repeater is coordinated by the SouthEastern Repeater Association. Input: 448.1375 MHz Output: 443.1375 MHz RAN 1 / PL … Continue reading
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Yaesu Announces Digital Voice Repeater at the @ARRL and TAPR Digital Comms Conference
It’s mostly depressing. Another digital mode, that isn’t interoperable with any of the others. Lets all go back to AM.
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P25 vs FM mode on 900Mhz with EF Johnson 5100’s
I captured P25 digital and FM audio and video from the Richmond, VA 900Mhz repeater (WA4FC/R). Thanks to Dave (N4MW) and Fred (WB4KXS) for the great dialog 🙂 Thanks to FieldComm for repeater use, care, and feeding: http://www.fieldcomm.org The HT’s … Continue reading
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Some new NXDN Resources
NXDN (aka NEXEDGE for Kenwood, and iDAS for Icom), is gaining traction on the amateur radio bands, thanks to the hard work of a few software gurus around the country. They have managed to build a software solution, that overcomes … Continue reading
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The rise of DMR in amateur radio
Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) is on the rise in the amateur radio community, and here is a little proof. I’ve been experimenting with the mode (aka MOTOTRBO) since the fall on our UHF TRBO repeater system. As you can see, … Continue reading
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New Yaesu digital radios coming soon
This year at Dayton should be an interesting show with regards to digital communications. DSTAR seems to be moving further downhill in choices for digital mobile radio in the amateur radio world. APCO25 has been common for years across the … Continue reading
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SSTV is alive and well on ten meters
While hanging out on ten this morning, I ran across some SSTV action on 28.678 MHz (680 is one of the normal freqs). Here are a few captures from the fun – just thought I would share for all … Continue reading
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Fun with MFSK16
Jason and I had about an hour QSO the other evening on 20 meter PSK31 and finally switched over to MFSK16 mode. We send a couple of pictures in that mode just for fun. Here are a couple of screen … Continue reading
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Get back on ten meters
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZq_8Lwvaqk httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAjL_NiaToY
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Mototrbo is coming soon !
There are so many new modes and technologies in radio right now. Sometimes they start in ham radio and trickle into the rest of the world, but in this case, this stuff has started in the commercial world and trickled … Continue reading
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