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Some things, like log.nq4t.com, are hosted at my QTH. Here I have 3 Xen hypervisors running various services related to my home internet. Most of these VM’s are running -Alpine linux, however nginx runs on an Ubuntu based VM and pfSense is FBSD based. The home connection is a gigabit fiber connection which recently got IPv6 connectivity. -I also run an Asterisk server for traditional VoIP service, as well as trunks to HamsOverIP and Hamshack Hotline. Dual instances of pi-hole provide DNS for my entire -network, with pfSense forcing all DNS activity to them. If you like loads of blinking lights and loud noises, it’s perfect.

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I also host AllStar Node 48032 here for the local club, Ole Virginia Hams. It serves as a hub for our repeaters, as well as allowing IAXRPT access for smartphone/PC voice -access to the repeaters. As I’ve often said, “I just feed it power and internet.” I also reverse-proxy Supermon2 for management of the node. The system is largely managed by -our repeater guru, KE2N.

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How -the hell did I even notice it in the first place?</p> - -<!--more--> - -<p>Last night while on a weekly video chat with some other hams, I decided to fire up the rig and run some FT8. -Everything seemed normal until I went to tune my antenna. I was greeted with funky operation from my rig, and -the sudden death of everything plugged in to that USB hub. That one was easy; turns out the shield connection -to the USB Hub (which has seen much much better days) had broken from the board. The solution was a 40 minute -operation where I removed the old, short, flat USB cable; and replaced it with a spare. Nothing complicated -here, just a simple cut and solder job. Being essentially a glorified electronics technician by trade for -almost 20 years, I learned my way around a soldering iron. The tight quarters of a small “travel” USB hub did -add to the difficulty, but I’ve got the small tips needed for the job.</p> - -<p>This went smoothly. After wiring up the new cable I plugged everything back in and not only did it work; but -no more cutting out on TX. But there was a new problem, one that most hams probably don’t have in their shack.</p> - -<p>I was getting RF in to the audio system.</p> - -<p>My shack does double duty; it’s both a shack and an office. Since I’m an audio guy at heart, I keep my “good” -sound system down here. Sometimes it’s nice to listen to something while working FT8. But during the test TX -for the hub, I noticed the other RF problem. My audio was buzzing before cutting out. It will do this on 17 -and 15m; due to the fact I do have an antenna practically running over my head. But not on 40m; and not enough -to make the audio cut completely out. It wasn’t a problem the other week, so I knew something had changed.</p> - -<p>My first step was trying to see where the problem was coming from. Was it the headphone amplifier, the pre-amp, -the DAC, or the EQ? I turned volume knobs down and quickly determined it was either the EQ or the DAC; and -watching the status of my devices along with the DAC display told me it wasn’t that. It left one culprit, my -Sansui SE-8 Graphic Equalizer. This thing has had it’s issues in the past; both from RF and age. I blew the -spectrum analyzer circuit years ago with a 10m FM transmission; watching all the bars max out and blink before -dropping silent. No big deal. It was also the source of some of the buzz on 15m when TXing; since that’s one of -the few times the spec-an on it registers any activity. But this buzzing and going in to it’s power-on-reset was new, -especially on 40m.</p> - -<p>I checked a few things inside, rearranged some wires, and verified I still had ground connections. All of that was -fine, no change there. But what changes had I made since putting the antenna back up and getting the FT-1000MP on the -air? Well, nothing; at first. But I recalled some behavior that lead me to my next path, the antenna. I had noticed -that when my tuner wasn’t properly tuned; I’d get more buzz. I run a balanced-line fed doublet; and then I remembered -I had risen and lowered the antenna due to bouts of wind recently. I went to the “interconnect” I have from the tuner -to the feed-line coming inside. The level of noise was not dropping nearly as much when both sides were connected. -AH-HA. I bet one of my solder joints broke.</p> - -<p>I wish I could explain why I soldered my feed-line vs crimping it; it was just something I felt like doing. I’ve -actually built two versions of this doublet, my original from 2015 and a replacement in 2018; but I kept all the -balanced line. Sure it might look rough and be kinked in spots; but it’s still perfectly usable. In 2018 I had one -solid un-spliced run on my antenna; it performed no better or worse than the previous one with splices everywhere. -I had once read the most important thing when working with this stuff, aside from keeping it away from metal, is to -maintain the spacing of the conductors. This was one of the reasons I stuck with the stuff; not only was it’s -performance suited for the application, but you can actually splice it back together. There’s no worry about water -ingress damaging it like coax, so even the old pieces I tossed under the shack for storage were easily able to be -put back in to service.</p> - -<p>How do I keep it from falling apart and stranding my antenna in it’s raised position? Zip-ties. I run a couple of -zip-ties through the “windows” to act as somewhat of a physical strain relief, but mostly backup support. If things -broke at a splice…the ties would still allow me to lower the antenna.</p> - -<p>So, I went outside, loosened one leg of the antenna, and began lowering it via gentle tugging on the feed-line. It -was then I saw it; one of the splices had broken. “This explains everything,” I thought to myself. The one side’s -solder joint was still strong, only the one had failed. It was the last one of the repair job, so I was likely -tired and having issues getting it to flow; that solid core just sucks up the heat and the flux core in my “antique” -solder probably isn’t much good anymore.</p> - -<p>I cut the wire from the center insulation enough to jam a crimp splice on to it, making sure to keep the overall -length matching the good leg and crimped it down.</p> - -<p>Of course, while doing this; the wind decided to blow the feed-line out of reach while working on it. It was probably -too windy to safely keep the antenna up, so I’ll have to wait and confirm my repair worked. However, I’m <em>really</em> -confident it will do the job. The other splice was still intact and since the radio was still receiving things; I -knew the patched-up leg wasn’t an issue.</p> - -<div class="message">Update: With the winds diminishing after the sun went down; I pulled the anntenna back up to -operating position and confirmed the problem had been solved. No more buzzing on 40m and my expected tuning solution -had been restored.</div> - - - - - Mirroring Page Up - - 2023-01-19T03:47:48+00:00 - http://0.0.0.0:4000/blog/2023/01/19/mirroring-page-up - <p>I have completed (I hope) modifying all of VK7ZJA’s pages for mirroring and have created a page where I will list -those and future mirrors. The link is in the sidebar/menu. 73.</p> - - - - - Jason-VK7ZJA Has Passed - - 2023-01-18T20:51:12+00:00 - http://0.0.0.0:4000/blog/2023/01/18/jason-vk7zja-has-passed - <p>I have just received word that Jason/VK7ZJA passed away on the morning of 17-JAN-2023. I never spoke to him, but he did write a <em>very</em> detailed page of modifications and technical documentation -for the Anytone 878 DMR HT; as well as a few others.</p> - -<p>Though I currently don’t own one, I may in the future; and the amount of work and information Jason put on to the page is too valuable to lose. As a service to the ham community, I am mirroring -his pages so that they may be reliably available in the future (or for however long I can keep my hosting). I am currently working my way through modifying all of his HTML pages to facilitate -mirroring, removing external and unnecessary file hosting links, and adding SK notices. All of these will be collected on a page when the project is finished. However, the 878 page is complete.</p> - -<p><a href="https://nq4t.com/anytone/878techmods.htm">Jason/VK7ZJA’s Anytone 878 Page</a></p> - - - - - FT-1000MP MKV DVS-2 Article Posted - - 2023-01-15T05:58:05+00:00 - http://0.0.0.0:4000/blog/2023/01/15/ft-1000mp-mkv-dvs-2-article-posted - <p>One of the reasons I started this site back up was to have a place to write about my experiences building a digital interface to the FT-1000MP MKV and -some of the lessons learned while doing it. So it makes sense it was one of the first things I did <em>after</em> the long process of building the site.</p> - -<p><a href="https://nq4t.com/pages/ft1000mp/2023/01/15/why-the-dvs-2-port-is-better-for-digital-modes/">Read it here.</a></p> - - - - - Why The DVS-2 Port Is Better For Digital Modes - - 2023-01-15T04:05:58+00:00 - http://0.0.0.0:4000/pages/ft1000mp/2023/01/15/why-the-dvs-2-port-is-better-for-digital-modes - <p>Recently over the holidays I took possession of a Yaesu FT-1000MP MARK-V. It’s an “extended loan” arrangement thanks to a couple of guys from -<a href="https://w4ovh.net" target="_blank">the local club</a>, KG4NXT and N7QLK. One of the reasons this rig was available to hand-off to me is they are -serious FT8 operators; and they claimed they could not get the MKV to operate FT8 reliably. I took this as a challenge. I poked around the internet and -found that many indicated they had similar problems operating the MKV on digital modes; and a little more searching showed why.</p> - -<h3 id="the-packet-port">The Packet Port</h3> - -<p><img class="wrap-left" src="/images/ft1000packetport.jpg" /> Conventional wisdom says to use the PACKET or DATA port on your radio. On a few of my previous -rigs that lacked an internal USB codec, this is how it was done. Both of these rigs were also iCom. It’s also not uncommon for the audio on the this port -to only be available in a data mode as opposed to normal LSB/USB mode. But the hangup with the FT-1000MP is that this port is “locked” to LSB mode. It is -literally designed to be just for packet communications, which usually happen in LSB mode.</p> - -<p><img class="wrap-right" src="/images/page18.jpg" />But while the default mode for the PKT mode is software-locked for LSB, there’s a little trick hiding in the menus; User Mode. It is possible to specify a -custom “User Mode” for PKT that you activate by holding the button for .5 seconds after entering the mode. Page 18 of the manual even talks about setting the User Mode to -PS31-SU for USB mode. <a href="http://lists.contesting.com/_yaesu/2004-05/msg00007.html" target="_blank">KN4LF even confirmed this in a 2004 mailing list posting.</a> He -even mentions the very confusing fact that the radio will continue to indicate LSB mode even when in User Mode set to PS31-SU. The sheet of paper clipped to the manual -(as I did get the physical book) which talks about doing FT8 on this radio said to leave User Mode off.</p> - -<p>So, at this point, I was pretty sure I’d cracked the problem. It was in fact a menu option that was getting missed compounded by bad information from the radio. I wouldn’t -have to resort to the universal hack of interfacing with the MIC and headphone jacks. I just had to wait for the parts to build my interface to arrive. When they did, I wired -everything up, set the radio’s User Mode to PS31-SU, and was working FT8 reliably. All I had to do was flip the main and sub VFOs to User Mode rather than let WSJT-X do it. -Even this could be set-up to take advantage of the “front/back” VFO feature you get when tapping a band button a second time; as they remember the previously used mode. I -think the radio would even flip to the “back” VFO when the frequency was set over CAT. Either way, I was off to the races and operating FT8; right?</p> - -<p>Well, not entirely.</p> - -<h3 id="pkt-filtering">PKT Filtering</h3> - -<p><img src="/images/iffilters.jpg" /> -One of the issues I became aware of after a day or two was the IF filtering in PKT mode. The MKV has no shortage of filter configurations as you can see from the image -taken from the manual; and even those can be configured from within the menu. But take a look at the PKT options. The widest you can make this is 2.4khz. Since my previous -rigs were either barn-door wide or at least 3khz; this meant I was missing activity above 2500 on the FT8 spectrum. People do operate up there, so it might be nice to -not exclude them. But, thankfully, my desire to DIY/hack together everything I could for this radio lead me down another path, the DVS-2 port.</p> - -<h3 id="any-port-in-a-qso">Any Port In A QSO</h3> - -<p><img src="/images/dvsbanner.jpg" /> -<img class="wrap-left" src="/images/dvsport.jpg" />One of the things on my list was to see about home-brewing a DVS-2. I didn’t feel like spending the money to find one on that auction site, in fact I refuse to do any -business with that place to start with. I knew the port had some additional control lines other than just audio and PTT, so I did a little digging around to see what -they might do. That’s when I stumbled across <a href="https://www.va3cr.net/accessories/DVS2.htm">VA3CR’s page</a> (SSL expired) about the DVS-2 as well as -<a href="https://www.qsl.net/gm0onx/ft1000mp%20interface.htm" target="_blank"> GM0ONX’s page</a> about an interface that used the DVS-2 port. Both pages provided information -about interfacing with this port, with VA3CR’s page providing a truth-table for the control lines. Though I’d originally planned on making a hardware device for voice-keying, -this was just single-tracked thought. Both of these pages gave me the solution I really needed: just interface with the DVS-2 port. The muting of the microphone when keying -the port properly would avoid issues I had with my IC-725 of needing to unplug the microphone, it would allow me to work digital modes with wide filtering, and it would allow -easy operation of software voice keyers, like N1MM, in a contest in a seamless fashion. Audio from the PC when the DVS-2 port is triggered, audio from the mic when I key up. -The interfacing was also quite easy. While I would have normally provided some isolation on the key lines; the DVS-2 port being designed for an external device made me skip -all of that. In fact, GM0ONX’s diagram of driving both control lines from the RTS line along with a transistor for PTT seemed too good to be true.</p> - -<h3 id="now-were-cookin-with-rf">Now We’re Cookin’ With RF</h3> - -<p><a href="/images/wsjt-flat.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/images/wsjt-flat.jpg" /></a> -The results with this method were absolutely outstanding. I think the screenshot speaks for itself; a nice flat response all the way to 3100 and beyond, right to the -limit of 5000 the software will handle. Of course, I have my “Normal” IF bandwidth set to as wide as I can get it. I can let WSJT-X set the modes of the main and -sub VFOs to USB; and all I have to do is disable eDSP so it’s not filtering/modifying my transmissions. Although, even if I forget to do that; it doesn’t affect FT8 -operations.</p> - -<p>I’m not upset about all the work I did to get the thing going with PKT. While I’m sure PKT mode is nice for packet; I’ve only actually run packet once doing APRS on -30m. Even if I wanted to do that again, I could still do it through the DVS2 port. I could look in the manual to see what, if any, advantages PKT offers for actual -packet. But I did it through Direwolf on my IC-725 which had zero special features. All in all it was a great learning experience all around. I have a fantastic rig -that’s ready to operate just about anything I want it to do. It’s a really nice rig for being a few generations back. I can understand why people who have them are -reluctant to give them up.</p> - - - - - Welcome to the new NQ4T.com - - 2023-01-14T20:46:54+00:00 - http://0.0.0.0:4000/blog/2023/01/14/welcome-to-the-new-nq4t.com - <p>Hi,</p> - -<p>I’ve decided to revive the website. I had no real content on the previous one, so we’re starting fresh. 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I have just received word that Jason/VK7ZJA passed away on the morning of 17-JAN-2023. I never spoke to him, but he did write a very detailed page of modifications and technical documentation -for the Anytone 878 DMR HT; as well as a few others.

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Though I currently don’t own one, I may in the future; and the amount of work and information Jason put on to the page is too valuable to lose. As a service to the ham community, I am mirroring -his pages so that they may be reliably available in the future (or for however long I can keep my hosting). I am currently working my way through modifying all of his HTML pages to facilitate -mirroring, removing external and unnecessary file hosting links, and adding SK notices. All of these will be collected on a page when the project is finished. However, the 878 page is complete.

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While my journey to ham radio started as a child with a fascination with shortwave radio, AM DX’ing, and…briefly…CB; it actually hit the ground running in late 2014. It was sometime after discovering the BPL network had died a very deserved death and I was looking to replace the shortwave receiver I’d sold 12 years earlier. I decided to go with an RTL-SDR setup with an upconverter; as I was curious about this “new” SDR stuff. Boy, was it fun. I quickly navigated the world of SDR and found myself listening to the 40m band one night. Two OM were having a rag-chew about something they didn’t know much about, but I knew quite a bit. “Boy, I wish I could jump in this conversation and share my knowledge.”

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It had been a lot of years since I looked at what the state of ham radio even was. I was shocked to learn the CW requirement was no more; and admittedly, that was my catalyst for getting serious. I found hamstudy.org and decided to take a practice test. I found that my years of fooling around with electronics had me passing the technician test. I found a local test scheduled a month out and decided to get serious. I spent the month studying the technician pool and debating if I wanted to go for general. I really wanted to get on HF, but I was suffering from a spinal injury at the time and didn’t expect to be able to obtain an HF rig. I expected that studying the general pool would be “more effort than it was worth”; but a week out I decided it might be worth having the privileges even if I couldn’t have a radio, instead of getting an HF rig and not being able to use it.

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This turned out to be a very good move. Just 4 months after getting licensed a client from a side-gig I had been doing decided to return to the town. He wanted the vintage stereo I’d fixed and give me money. Just 7 hours before the Berryville Hamfest in August of 2015; I had a wad of disposable income in my hand. I decided I would be attending my first hamfest afterall. I came home from it with an iCom IC-725, a power supply, and a basic MFJ-16010 tuner. I rigged my SDR’s longwire up to it that night and started making contacts. I built a digital interface for the 725 to do digital modes and played with a few antennas. In September of 2015 I built my first ladder-line fed doublet. That was a game changer.

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During the summer of 2016 I participated in the 13 Colonies Event. I was attempting to work all the stations; but could never get GB13COL. I knew I needed to get down into the DX portion of bands to have a better chance; so I started studying for the Extra. I decided to take my test at the Berryville Hamfest, since I was going to be attending and the Laurel tests were free. I stayed up all night to study, but wound up doing more late-night operating than studying. Running entirely on caffeine and having forgotten my print out of my license; the Laurel VE’s accepted the ULS listing on my phone as proof of license and I went to take my extra.

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In 2017 I started the task of trying to acquire a short call. Since this was before the $35 thievery fee; the competition for calls was quite stiff. It took a couple months of keeping track of available calls and filing applications. I received NQ4T in September. The call had an unusually low number of applicants, probably due to the availability date disappearing on AE7Q’s website. However, I saw nothing in the ULS that indicated the call was no longer available. I later found out the call had largely belonged to one operator, who obtained it back in the 80’s when the range was opened. I occasionally run into operators online who knew the original call owner. They always have a good story about the guy and were glad the call went to someone “who would use it”. But while it took me a few years of personal ups-and-downs; I was able to work all the 13 Colonies stations (all 13 and the bonus stations) in 2021. I also, after several years, nabbed my last state for mixed WAS in July of 2021. I’m still working on my DXCC.

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In early 2020 I became president of the local radio club, Ole Virginia Hams. I didn’t run, but tied as a write-in with another guy. However the club is an exceptional group of people that have been the complete opposite of things I read from others about their clubs. I had no clue how to run a club and was surprised there was such support for “the young guy”. However, it would be just a few weeks later before none of us knew what to do. The pandemic threw a wrench into everything. However, I managed to hold the club together for two years; even spinning up a Jitsi server to hold meetings. Despite the wide support for a third term; I decided to step back to not have myself “tied down” as I was working on some job opportunities.

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For close to 20 years I spent my working life as a coin-op technician; fixing pinball machines, video arcade games, jukeboxes, slot machines, and anything in general that took a coin. I enjoyed the job, just not who I was doing it for at times. It physically destroyed my body, resulting in a L4-L5 spinal herniation that will be a problem for the rest of my life; pain, lack of flexibility, and nerve damage. I did return to it for a few years after recovering; but post-pandemic things quickly began to fall apart. Between the issues with the employer at the time and my physical injuries; I knew I couldn’t continue doing it for any length of time. I had already dealt with six months of major back issues after the pandemic due to being overworked. My employer was getting angry at me for being injured…when it was the same conditions that lead to the injury 7 years prior. I did however find “stable-enough” income as an IT support freelancer.

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    -My main HF rig is a Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark-V with a MFJ-974HB Balanced Tuner. I built both a digital interface to the DVS-2 -port as well as a TinyFSK keyer for FSK.

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    My antenna is a 72’ (21.9m) long center-fed doublet. It’s about 50’ (15.24m) up in the air supported by trees. The feed-line held mostly vertical from the feed-point about -6’ (1.8m) from the ground using a line attached to the house. I originally built this doublet in 2018, and it stayed up until 2022 when the line hung up during a wind-storm -and it tore the loop at the end. The feed-line has had a few patches and pieces spliced in to it; but it’s window-line so it doesn’t affect performance. One leg had a -cut/tear in the insulation close to the feed-point, so I did some pre-emptive work to prevent this from getting worse. It really shows up in the night shot as a -blurry white spot.

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    My first HF rig was an iCom 725 I picked up at the Berryville Hamfest in 2015. I’d only been licensed for about 4 months and hadn’t expected to get an HF rig that quickly. I had -a small budget from a surprise influx of cash the night before and had been making rounds looking at boat anchors. A friend found this radio on the floor from a vendor that was -selling surplus radio equipment; the type of setup where it looked like a truck just dumped random gear everywhere. I made the usual mistake of buying an untested radio; but my -friend told me the old iCom’s were pretty tough. It came with the PS-55 power supply but no mic. I talked the guy down to an agreeable price because of these two factors. Despite -looking like it came right out of a barn, the radio fired up when I got it home. I bought an 8-pin mic plug, a random microphone from a $1 bin, and spent my last $20 on a MFJ-16010 -long-wire tuner. I made contacts that night. While I may not have kept the power-supply, I kept the radio. Not only because it was my first; but because it’s a tank.

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    I wound up trading my half-dead 756 for this 728. Was it a good trade? Probably not. But at the time, I was defeated and didn’t care. The 728 didn’t suffer from the filtering -issues the 725 did; plus it had a speech processor, something the 725 lacked. Don’t get too excited. A few months later the RX lost all sensitivity. I sold it for parts at a -hamfest and managed to recover $75, putting me in the hole for $425 between it and the 756.

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    I don’t even want to talk about this. I made my first trip to Hamvention in 2022 for the sole purpose of buying the SB-201 and tuner off a friend for a ridiculously good price. The -amp was in fully working condition and had all the major mods done by someone who knew what they were doing. I never even got this on the air. By the time I got the rest of the -parts to let my antenna setup do kW; that situation arose and it went out the door. I was so heart-broken after everything that I had zero intentions of getting back on the air -until the current rig was bestowed upon me. On the flipside; the shelf I had to add to the station location to accommodate that beast wound up being needed to hold the Yaesu. -

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    -A friend from an audio site gave me a Kenwood TR-7850 2m monobander after hearing I’d gotten my license. It belonged to his father and was just sitting around. He included another -2m rig; an even older Kenwood monobander. It’s….somewhere around here in storage. I only briefly used the rig because of the 2m antenna issue I mentioned. I’m pretty sure I still -have it…again…in storage. After 8 years it’s hard to tell where it’s gone. -

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    -Yes, I bought one of the D74s. I bought it the same day I bought my 7300 at HRO. Nice little radio. It saw very little use and sold it after selling the rest of the shack. One of -the nice things about it was it’s general coverage receive would actually do sideband modes; and it actually had a ferrite bar antenna for AM BCB. Mine did suffer that issue where -the internal charge controller died; so the power jack on the radio was 100% useless. But it was my first D-Star radio, the one I first used with a hotspot, I used it for a couple -of foxhunts, and it did send an APRS packet through the ISS. -



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    -Look…I was a new ham and broke. I bought one of these and made use of it; but it was a pretty lousy radio overall. Tons of front-end overload issues. It’s final resting place -is a field in California. That being said, I did make a magmount for it and beaconed a lot of APRS with it while I did own it. I think I even did an event or two. The few comments -I got on repeaters were complmenting me for having “good deviation” as most of them shipped FMN by default. I later stole the crystal out of it’s programming cable to fix the dongle -for my HF digital interface.

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    - - - diff --git a/commit.sh b/commit.sh deleted file mode 100755 index 423bfe2..0000000 --- a/commit.sh +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -commit=$@ - -git add * -git commit -m "$commit" -git push origin master diff --git a/composepage.sh b/composepage.sh deleted file mode 100755 index d4ebc9b..0000000 --- a/composepage.sh +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash -# nq4t.com page composer -# by: Jay/nq4t - -# usage: ./compose.sh [category] [title] -# example: /compose.sh Tech MY AWESOME POST TITLE NO YOU DON'T NEED TO ENCLOSE IT! -# run in the root of your site files/repository -# assumes categories are directories in root - -# Variables and category argument -category=$1 -pd=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d') -pt=$(date +'%T') -file=blog$$.md -# Ditch the category argument -shift 1 -# Read everything else as title. -title=$@ -t=${title,,} -t=${t// /-} -fd=$(date +'%Y/%^b/%d') -# Let's write the front matter to our temp file. -printf -- "---\ntitle: $title\nlayout: page\ndate: $pd $pt\ncategory: ${category^}\nexcerpt_separator: \n---\n\n" >> $file -# Write the post in whatever editor you want. -nano + $file - -# Spell check, move the file to category/_posts replacing spaces with hyphen, remove .bak -aspell check $file -mv $file pages/_posts/$pd-${t// /-}.md -rm $file.bak -# Display some output to verify it's done. -printf "\nPage $title categorized in $tag: pages/_posts/$pd-$t.md\n\n" diff --git a/composepost.sh b/composepost.sh deleted file mode 100755 index 841ea7f..0000000 --- a/composepost.sh +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash -# nq4t.com blog post composer -# by: Jay/nq4t - -# usage: ./compose.sh [tag] [title] -# example: /compose.sh blog MY AWESOME POST TITLE NO YOU DON'T NEED TO ENCLOSE IT! -# run in the root of your site files/repository -# assumes categories are directories in root - -# Variables and category argument -tag=$1 -pd=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d') -pt=$(date +'%T') -file=blog$$.md -# Ditch the category argument -shift 1 -# Read everything else as title. -title=$@ -t=${title,,} -t=${t// /-} -fd=$(date +'%Y/%^b/%d') -# Let's write the front matter to our temp file. -printf -- "---\ntitle: $title\nlayout: post\ndate: $pd $pt\ntags: ${tag^}\nexcerpt_separator: \n---\n\n" >> $file -# Write the post in whatever editor you want. -nano + $file - -# Spell check, move the file to category/_posts replacing spaces with hyphen, delete .bak -aspell check $file -mv $file blog/_posts/$pd-${t// /-}.md -rm $file.bak -# Display some output to verify it's done. -printf "\nPost $title tagged in $tag: blog/_posts/$pd-$t.md\n\n" diff --git a/devsite.sh b/devsite.sh deleted file mode 100755 index 184d302..0000000 --- a/devsite.sh +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -bundle exec jekyll serve -H 0.0.0.0