Someone emailed me asking how to explore the TAPR CD-ROMs. If you scroll down a little, say from https://archive.org/details/tapr-1996 - you will see a directory listing.
One way to really explore the disc is to click the “ZIP” in the “Download Options” pane. It’ll download the contents of the disc to your computer. Unzip that puppy and explore.
OR, if you prefer to explore without the commitment of downloading, click “Show All” in the “Download Options” pane. Then click (View Contents) of the ZIP file or ISO file (the contents should be the same) — then you can easily read text files or download individual files that look interesting without committing to the whole CD-ROM-sized download.
Thanks to ZR-130 I spent some of the holiday break rebuilding the K0RV-DR repeater, this time using Pi-Star and a Zum MMDVM Pi Hat. Went mostly pretty well. I only have D-star running for now until I get an M17 radio set up and a DMR HT. One major pain point continues to be the lack of good "what do we do now" articles for actually using these repeaters. Lots of great tutorials for how to set up a Pi-Star image, including really basic stuff like how to write the image to an SD card, and a lot of "put that number in this field," but then that's it. Everyone sets these reflectors and repeater networks up and they just leave everything on default. And keep a lot of the "alchemy" in secret, but that's nothing new...
Really don't have much of a point, other than these systems really aren't living up to their potential. We have very powerful systems with unique qualities just sitting there. I'd love to see some coordination of reflectors by use, for example REF001A being introductions and welcome nubee, REF911 being emergency, REF411 for help, etc. Maybe have the ability to monitor several reflectors at a time. Perhaps have a library of prerecorded messages or a store-and-forward message system - Join a reflector, transmit a text string and get a solar report. Just something to get some use out of the things.
Regarding MagLoop, I found this QSO Today talk by John Portune W6NBC to be valuable (but maybe it comes from a previous newsletter): https://youtu.be/ZmUQgyQ2uSg?si=iHUDLEGFFGrncpjb
Regarding BATVC, we have Boulder and British amateur tv club! I got confused at first. 😅
Someone emailed me asking how to explore the TAPR CD-ROMs. If you scroll down a little, say from https://archive.org/details/tapr-1996 - you will see a directory listing.
One way to really explore the disc is to click the “ZIP” in the “Download Options” pane. It’ll download the contents of the disc to your computer. Unzip that puppy and explore.
OR, if you prefer to explore without the commitment of downloading, click “Show All” in the “Download Options” pane. Then click (View Contents) of the ZIP file or ISO file (the contents should be the same) — then you can easily read text files or download individual files that look interesting without committing to the whole CD-ROM-sized download.
I hope this helps!
Thanks to ZR-130 I spent some of the holiday break rebuilding the K0RV-DR repeater, this time using Pi-Star and a Zum MMDVM Pi Hat. Went mostly pretty well. I only have D-star running for now until I get an M17 radio set up and a DMR HT. One major pain point continues to be the lack of good "what do we do now" articles for actually using these repeaters. Lots of great tutorials for how to set up a Pi-Star image, including really basic stuff like how to write the image to an SD card, and a lot of "put that number in this field," but then that's it. Everyone sets these reflectors and repeater networks up and they just leave everything on default. And keep a lot of the "alchemy" in secret, but that's nothing new...
Really don't have much of a point, other than these systems really aren't living up to their potential. We have very powerful systems with unique qualities just sitting there. I'd love to see some coordination of reflectors by use, for example REF001A being introductions and welcome nubee, REF911 being emergency, REF411 for help, etc. Maybe have the ability to monitor several reflectors at a time. Perhaps have a library of prerecorded messages or a store-and-forward message system - Join a reflector, transmit a text string and get a solar report. Just something to get some use out of the things.