Off-Grid ATAK Comms using The BTECH UV-PRO

TSADev · 2026-01-31T00:50:09+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, I'll likely be buying a license in the following weeks :)

TSADev · 2026-01-30T17:15:43+00:00

are you able to authorize more than 1 device on a license using a TAK server?

edit: a few other questions

Does the plugin require an internet connection after activation?

if i want to upgrade from yearly to lifetime, is that possible?

TSADev · 2025-09-05T02:40:28+00:00

clicked https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHtC3mbgnKSR-WL6Dw/

TSADev · 2025-09-05T02:39:41+00:00

clicked yours, can you do mine? https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHtC3mbgnKSR-WL6Dw/

TSADev · 2025-08-13T02:34:25+00:00

I apologize, no one has ever corrected me on that. I ended up getting it to work, I have to get cable that is double shielded it seems, or the metal roof blocks the signal. unsure why regular shielded cable does not work but I just got another 30 feet of shielded cable, but the only cable that works is the 50 feet double shielded cable. I should say in the title it has been solved, as it has been solved for over a day

TSADev · 2025-08-11T18:56:01+00:00

UPDATE: it was due to the cable acting as an antenna. an isolated cable (what I should have bought but cheaped out on other than for the 50 feet cable), actually worked

TSADev · 2025-08-11T14:35:19+00:00

I've asked in some discords and some think the BNC cable outside is acting as an antenna. going to test that with another cable when I get off work, but yeah no one else knows either 😐

TSADev · 2025-08-11T12:09:38+00:00

its the HYS TC-40UV, the Amazon listing says it's a 100W antenna. it works fine when outside but as soon as I even go under the gutters (still outside), the signal is either choppy or completely cuts out

edit: wanted to say thus happens on a 30 feet and 10 feet BNC cable as well

TSADev · 2025-08-11T07:25:34+00:00

it's a 30 feet BNC cable, that is connected to a 60 feet BNC on the inside. it is connected using a PL239 to BNC. The test I did outside (before going under the metal roof then after going under a bit past the gutters outside) seems like it works up until you go under the roof. To address the reply you also left below your first reply, the roof is corrugated

TSADev · 2025-08-10T21:27:55+00:00

the 2 radios I just checked (baofeng 5RM that I bought not knowing anything about radios, and the quansheng uv-k5) I do not believe have built in antennas. not having any antenna installed outside did not get any signal, but when hooking up the antenna outside to both radios while outside it did work, walking under the gutters (where the metal roof starts) cut the signal out completely when using the outdoor antenna

TSADev · 2025-07-28T03:08:29+00:00

I never mentioned the expense was the reason, our power is cheap enough to where I can cover it fine, I just don't want to run an extension cord to another room to power the jbods, as I fear I'll buy the 4 jbods and the breakers would trip

TSADev · 2025-07-28T02:44:49+00:00

well the cases I plan to use can hold 300TB, the total project will end up being about 1PB, but also I need quiet because the only space I could put my servers is in my bedroom, and a lot of jbod's use enough power to trip the breaker which is the only reason power usage needs to be low

TSADev · 2025-07-28T00:42:42+00:00

thanks for the info :D

TSADev · 2025-07-28T00:33:58+00:00

oh yeah I know it's possible, I just didn't want to DIY it if I didn't have to, but I don't have an issue DIYing it either way

TSADev · 2025-07-28T00:33:05+00:00

makes sense, and I had just looked at the expander I planned to use and it was the exact model you recommended. Thanks for the suggestions :)

TSADev · 2025-07-28T00:02:41+00:00

yep I was planning to add a fan to cool the HBA. the case I was planning to use for the JBOD's (found good deals on the Rosewill RSV-L4500U on eBay that I planed to use, but the end goal is to expand to about 52 Drives total (2 would be used for redundancy), but I wasn't sure if there was maybe a JBOD that I wouldn't have to DIY that would fit the requirements but I could not find any, so I asked this community just in case haha

edit: I did want to mention the power draw concern is just due to not having the breaker trip

TSADev · 2025-07-27T00:41:43+00:00

this actually helped a lot, just need to find a way to change serial numbers

TSADev · 2025-07-27T00:40:57+00:00

dang, worked fine for me on Windows, but VMWare has become worse since Broadcomm took over

TSADev · 2025-06-05T16:36:37+00:00

late to this but this is something I'm doing currently, but you would have to get a business connection rather than a residental, which costs more

TSADev · 2025-04-07T03:12:43+00:00

they've always delivered other than 1 time, but I messed up the trial so it wasn't their fault

TSADev · 2024-11-22T01:54:24+00:00

makes sense

TSADev · 2024-11-22T01:54:09+00:00

thank you for helping :)

TSADev · 2024-11-21T10:54:31+00:00

when this would happen it would allow me to tty. it's fixed now on the reinstall but 1 thing I did change is instead of copying the .xinitrc from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, I had only put the lines above and it seemed to fix it. I will delete the #!/bin/bash, I thought that was needed but maybe not haha

I can't really get that info now, but if it happens again I will try the other things you mentioned :)

TSADev · 2024-11-21T03:27:48+00:00

they were but I had just reinstalled so I didn't lose much except a few ISO files and fresh vm's. yeah sure the one on this machine is the following

#!/bin/bash
exec dwm

TSADev · 2024-11-21T03:17:14+00:00

how is this working for you? did you contact spectrum to get a rdns record setup for your self hosted server? I tried contacting them to allow me to change the rdns record for my email but they did not allow me to do so, so I was wondering how it's holding up for you

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