I've used Pi-star now for around a year and a half. The first screen I used with the Zumspot was a 0.96" OLED screen (I thought it was awesome!) but after a while I started seeing other amateur radio guys were using the Nextion screen/s These are an amazing piece of equipment they run on […]
Tag Archives: Amateur Radio
Yaesu FTM-7250D
New radio day (well two days ago) I've been lucky enough to have been bought (birthday) the Yaesu FTM-7250D to replace the Yaesu FT-90R that has been in the car for almost as long as I've owned it! So far I'm impressed with the radio and its operation is almost identical to the Yaesu FT-70D […]
MMDVM Hotspot with ZUMspot Pi
So I've entered the relatively new digital modes (for me anyway) of DMR & YSF. This requires either a digital repeater or personal hotspot to access. The popular way to do this is with a software suite called MMDVM and currently there's two Raspberry Pi images available that take care of having to build everything […]
Raspberry Pi SSTV
Here's an article for using your Raspberry Pi as a SSTV transmitter! (similar to the Raspberry PiFM project) Raspberry Pi Slow Scan Television (SSTV) Camera As mentioned in the article above the source can be downloaded from GitHub
Meadowbank Fire activates Cambridge IMT
I got a phone call at around 17:45 to ask me what I had planned for the evening! I was just a little non committal at first, but after I phoned the contact from the IMT the picture was looking pretty grim so I put aside my reluctance and headed to Cambridge. This is the […]