APRS Fun - A new digipeater in Lawrence I spent some time over the last couple of weeks attempting to get APRS working on my radios. And I found that Lawrence did not have a working digipeater or igate. I asked on the W0UK Radio club email list, and a couple of people were able to verify that we did not have one working anymore. So, I put it on my workbench. I was going to build a digipeater. ...
I’ve been thinking about making a change in the AI model that I use for my projects and discussions. The last couple of weeks have made that change very easy to wrap my head around. I was pretty late to the AI party. I occasionally tried to use it for some projects that I was doing around the house, or with computer software. But I found that it (ChatGPT) rarely had the updated information about new versions of software, or open source projects. But I found that was getting better. ...
DNS and DHCP I run OPNsense at home for my firewall, directly behind my AT&T fiber router. It has been rock solid for several years now. Well… rock solid as a firewall. As an internal DNS server, it has left something to be desired. I’m sure that has a lot to do with the fact that I’ve never really sat down and dug into how ISC DHCP interacted with Unbound—or how Unbound interacted with AdGuard Home. ...
#All Star Nodes - Supermon-ng & SkywarnPlus-ng One of the first projects that I worked on was an All Star Node. I had heard about it from the Zero Retries Newsletter by Steve Stroh. Zero Retries and Steve has turned out to be the Elmer that I don’t have locally for the type of projects I was interested in. We have an active club here in Lawrence, KS. But the members of the club are very much into HF and working the upper bands. They just don’t do a lot of work in VHF and UHF. Which is fine: I’m used to solo projects. And the two projects that I thought I wanted to do first: hot spots. DMR and AllStar. ...
2025 - What Did I accomplish? 2025 was a great great year for family, health, hobbies, volunteering! Oldest Daughter was married! Started volunteering with county Emergency Management team Skywarn Weather Spotting for EM & NWS. Completion of FEMA classes for EM Emergency Operations Center assistance Passed my Technicians license test for Amateur Radio And all of that was on top of family, work, HOA Treasurer, and health changes! So what are my goals for 2026? Two new grandchildren, for a total 9! Continue volunteering with County Emergency Management team * CERT * Skywarn * EOC * Auxilary Communications Achieve my General license for Amateur Radio Work on my radio hobby projects - including antennas, digital, etc. 2026 is going to be a very good, and very busy year!