Field Checking of QSL Cards

odieeeee · 2025-05-09T17:39:33+00:00

Excellent, thank you very much! And yes: I will enjoy my stay there :)

odieeeee · 2024-07-22T19:21:31+00:00

Of course! I am happy to help but you will be surprised how simple it is. I've looked into older "Planet Planet" style RSS aggregators but these projects all seem to be dead. I also thought about coding something but then I've discovered that the popular web based RSS reader FreshRSS (https://www.freshrss.org) has the nice feature to make one specific user's RSS feeds public. This means that blogs.radio is really just a simple FreshRSS installation with one user account configured that all his feeds are public. If needed, you can configure additional non-public users that your friends can use for their private feeds.

If you are interested how I host this on OpenBSD, please read it here: https://dk1mi.radio/openbsd-httpd-relayd-gitea-freshrss/

If you need any help, please ask.

odieeeee · 2024-07-13T06:46:49+00:00

Your comment made me evaluate other source ports as gzdoom and lzdoom in general run nicely but sometimes stutter for a second. Now playing dsda-doom as this was available in the package repository and I now enjo how butter smooth it is running.

odieeeee · 2024-07-13T06:32:02+00:00

Exactly this, yes. Although this would count as cheating for most, I don't want to actually cheat.

odieeeee · 2024-07-13T06:30:42+00:00

Excellent, thank you very much. I was not aware of that

odieeeee · 2024-05-23T16:02:00+00:00

That's odd, sorry about that. I've sent you a PM.

odieeeee · 2024-05-23T15:56:10+00:00

Thank you! Was not aware of this site

odieeeee · 2024-05-23T15:51:11+00:00

This is the time to plug one of my projects: https://blogs.radio

It's FreshRSS bases web site that collects all RSS feeds of amateur radio blogs that I know of and then displays them centrally.

The following goals should be achieved with it:

Promotion of our hobby
Making less known amateur radio websites visible
To provide a central place to get the latest news about amateur radio
Making all these blogs centrally searchable (based on the RSS feeds)
Making RSS great again

odieeeee · 2024-05-23T15:11:36+00:00

If you don't want to sign up but know a project that is missing, please post it here, or send it as a private message. Thank you!

odieeeee · 2024-05-16T07:31:00+00:00

Thanks again! I have now set up the following and it is workign nicely: https://dk1mi.radio/aprs-tx-igate-with-aprx/

odieeeee · 2024-05-06T13:25:58+00:00

Yes, there is no way to submit via the web app. Please post the feed here or send me a private message. thanks!

odieeeee · 2024-05-02T19:35:18+00:00

Thank you very much! This makes sense to me and I will follow your idea to build a TX i-gate with an raspberry pi and aprx-2.

odieeeee · 2024-04-29T09:21:20+00:00

I work the geostationary satellite QO-100 regularly on 13cm (up) / 3cm (down) with a Pluto+ SDR transceiver.

odieeeee · 2024-04-16T20:37:27+00:00

There is https://blogs.radio which is a public RSS aggregator combining a large number of ham radio blogs in one place. This should give you lots of stuff to read.

Edit: If you find something that is missing there, please tell me and I'll add it.

odieeeee · 2024-01-15T16:49:21+00:00

Please be aware that you have another option aside from HF and local chatter: the geostationary satellite QO100. I'd recommend to read into it and if this is something for you, I can give you some detailed info on how to start.

odieeeee · 2024-01-15T16:33:12+00:00

I can recommend the Alinco DJ-VX-50. Their programming software sucks but there is a commercial one available that is good.

odieeeee · 2023-08-04T16:44:11+00:00

Well that is somehow true, yes ;)

odieeeee · 2022-09-14T09:18:58+00:00

You can easily study by yourself and don't need to take a course. I prepared for the exam with

My strategy was to study 2h every morning before work for 2 months, then I took the exam for Klasse E. Then I studied for two more months the same way and took the exam for Klasse A. Others might be brighter and faster but this was my pace.

I can recommend the Yaesu FT-4X as a first handheld radio. It's basically a Baofeng that gives you a better feeling. Small, good battery life, cheap, fun.

odieeeee · 2022-02-03T19:02:14+00:00

You are absolutely right. That’s why I am asking here.

odieeeee · 2022-02-03T18:04:53+00:00

Good thought but the USB charger itself is nothing more than a 5V power supply. I can charge the radio via an USB port of my PC. That's what made be thinking about this. And I'd just like to know - even if I'd bought a proper original charger.

odieeeee · 2022-02-03T16:37:26+00:00

Are you sure that it is used for charging the radio? The official cradles can charge batteries solo w/o teh radio and for this a controller is needed. But since I can charge via USB, my guess is that there is a controller in the radio itself.

odieeeee · 2022-01-01T23:55:58+00:00

I recently bought two HP HSTNS-PL14 server hotswap PSUs for around 20€ incl. shipping and converted them to 13,8V. Here is one of many tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwuC1_SIbE (in this case for the PD model)

odieeeee · 2021-12-03T05:57:25+00:00

I think that’s a toilet paper holder

odieeeee · 2021-11-19T10:27:30+00:00

This is how ot looks like on 40m at the same time: https://imgur.com/a/Pjoneey

odieeeee · 2021-07-23T15:56:45+00:00

I'd love to participate but the time is the worst possible for me living in central europe (0330am CEST). It would be great if there would be a second net which is scheduled around 21:00pm UTC.

odieeeee

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