Ham radio operator from the midwest.

This will be where I document parts of my ham-venture. https://hamalert.org/myspot?c=KE8BDY&h=92b3096b40e88250&dark=1

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G90 with Endfed wire antenna

Meshtastic Blackfriday Sale

If you’ve been intersted in getting your feet wet with meshtastic. Looks like Heltec v3 is onsale on amazon right now. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D2L1ZHRR/ I just ordered one. Still pretty green with meshtastic. Hopefully I will get some interesting posts about it one day..

test depoy from github

Just a test post using github. I am hosting my code on github. The whole hugo folder as a repo. Then using Digital Ocean App Platform (PaaS) to compile the changes from github and then they host it for me for free! Digital Ocean will host 3 static Apps/Sites for free. https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/reference/buildpacks/hugo/

How to install Hugo Site Generator on Ubuntu

Hugo is how I am building my blog going forward. To me it does not seem like their install page tells you how to install ubuntu very well. May it does and I missed it. If you are reading this you probably missed it too. I found just going to the github page and installing the DEB from there works well. https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases

Ham Radio Calling Frequencies

80 Meters – 3.885 – AM calling 40 Meters – 7.290 – AM calling 20 Meters – 14.286 – AM calling 10 Meters - 28.400 - SSB calling 6 Meters – 50.125 – SSB calling 6 Meters – 50.62 – Digital (Packet) calling 2 Meters – 144.200 – Nat. calling 2 Meters – 146.52 – Nat. calling 1.25 Meters – 222.1 – SSB & CW Calling 70 Centimeters – 432.10 – calling

Programming Yaesu FTM-400 on Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) with ADMS 7

Step 1: Install WINE – https://www.winehq.org/ Step 2: Download FTM-400 software – https://www.yaesu.com/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=14972&FileCatID=267&FileName=FTM%2D400D%5FADMS%2D7%28DG%2DID%29%5FEXP%5FV1100.zip&FileContentType=application%2Fx%2Dzip%2Dcompressed Step 3: Extract all the files. Step 4: Run .Net framework via Wine (Right click “Open with Wine Installer”) and run thru the .net framework Step 5: Launch ADMS software in the other folder. Ftm400dAdms7.exe (Right click “Open with Wine Installer”) All set! I have only used the SD card feature have not tested the COM ports in wine.

Baofeng Com Driver Issue

I plugged my Baofeng cable into my windows 10 laptop today and it told me that I did not have a proper prolific USB device 2302 or something to the affect. This site here has the fix! http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php#install Driver Mirror Directions Mirror