Bench test success DIY Solar Generator
Today I’m running JS8Call Solar powered with the Yaesu ft-891. This is the first successful QRO test of the diy solar generator. It has also […]
Emergency Communications
Grid Down EMCOMM Winter Edition
Hello Operators. Extreme weather and grid failures in various degrees, are a fact of life in many parts of the world. More often than not […]
Solar Generator Project Update 06JAN2019
Hello Operators. Here are few new pictures from the DIY solar generator project. Today I got the Headway pack put together. 4S3P 45,000mah. This solar […]
DIY Portable Solar Generator update
Hello Operators Small update for the solar generator project. All the Headway LiFePO4 cells have arrived. That makes 12x, 15ah 40152s LiFePO4 cells. This gives […]
Portable Solar Generator DIY 12.8v LiFePO4
Hello OperatorsFrom December 2018 through February 2019, I researched, designed, documented, and built a 12 volt, 576wh DC Solar Generator, using LiFePO4 batteries. In some […]
Digi Mode Ham Radio Hat for Raspberry Pi
Hello Operators For you Raspberry Pi users, It looks like we finally have an audio codec, GPS, real time clock, and native data ports on […]
Too few Operators or station problems?
I recently posted the image at the top of this post to a user group in Facebook, in response to the complaints about low activity […]
JS8Call 0.9 Release notes
Hi Folks, Thanks for staying patient with me on this one. Build servers were being weird today! Happy to bring you release with simple features, […]
Ham Radio NVIS for Regional Communications
Hello Operators. My buddy Gil F4WBY the Radio Prepper, just published amazing video on Regional Communications using NVIS or near vertical incidence skywave. Like myself, […]
Ham Radio Off Grid with OH8STN
Hello Operators There are often misconceptions about Communications off grid or what off grid actually means. That’s what we’re talking about today. There’s a lot […]