The past several months have been months where I felt I was burned out on the hobby. Got my new car at the end of July and I haven’t installed the 2 meter/440 rig in yet. Mainly I haven’t decided how I want to install it in the car, but part of me was enjoying [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘VHF/UHF Communications’
June 25, 2009
IBCNU APRS iPhone App has updated.
The IBCNU APRS iPhone app has finally been released by the Appstore. After field day weekend I hope to sit down and check out the new gui interface and features and finally put out that review I have been promising.
Right now the new update isn’t connecting to the APRS servers. Got to figure out what’s [...]
June 21, 2009
IRLP 4865 Down…
Due to power surge the IRLP node is down until further notice. I have to figure out what is bad on the computer and replace those items.
June 11, 2009
Testing the Iphone APRS App, IBCNU
Well… It appears that Apple’s App store has not posted the newest update to this software for downloading as of this morning.
So as soon as Apple does and I’m able to play with the software I will post a review. If you go to iTunes you will see new screen shots for the update but [...]
June 7, 2009
IRLP Node #4865 – Frequency Change
Node used to be on 145.600 MHz and has been relocated to 146.460 simplex. The band plan lists 145.600 for experimental communications which the node was in the beginning. Felt it was better to follow the intent of the band plan and move it to the new frequency.
Hopefully it will not be too long before [...]
May 21, 2009
Testing out the iPhone APRS software.
I have downloaded the iPhone APRS software mentioned in my previous article. So far I see some interesting things and I see some possible problems. I hope to have more details after I have played with it tomorrow. However, if you would like to track me on APRS my call is KG4ZXK-11 for the iPhone. [...]
May 21, 2009
Aprs now on iPhone
http://ibcnu.us/ This site is the home of new iPhone software that allows you to use APRS on your iPhone. If you do not know APRS, Amateur Position Reporting System, allows you to track stations or objects in real time via packet and GPS and also send short text messages like you do in Twitter. However, this data [...]
May 20, 2009
IRLP 4865 back.
It appears my antenna issue must be water getting into the coax line. I hope to get access to an antenna soon. Only solution is when bad weather approaches the node will go into off-line mode. So if you try to connect into 4865 and it says offline, I’m either asleep for the evening or [...]
May 17, 2009
IRLP #4865 Down (again)
The antenna for node #4865 is showing high SWR’s again after 7 to 8 hours of rain. I can only assume I may have water getting into the coax. So… Sorry folks.
