PRESENTER OPINION - Misinformation About one-day Tech Classes

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PRESENTER OPINION - Misinformation About one-day Tech Classes

In the latest Great Lakes Division newsletter, there is a article titled, “What kind of Ham Radio Classes is your club teaching?” Its basic premise is that one-day Tech classes—the kind of classes that I teach—are inferior to more traditional classes. There’s so much misinformation in this article, that I just had to reply.

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RSGB Awards Manager Announces a New Awards Series

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The RSGB Awards Manager has introduced a new awards series for amateur radio contacts with stations across all UK country and crown dependency prefixes.

The Worked All UK and Crown Dependency Prefixes Award offers several different sub-sets with the rules varying slightly for each. The idea for the award was put forward as a way of encouraging, or tapping into, intra-UK activity as well as encouraging contact with UK amateurs.

Get involved with this new award by going to the awards web page and selecting ‘Worked All UK and Crown Dependency’ from the right-hand menu. You can find details of other awards offered by the Society using the same link.

Worked All UK and Crown Dependency - https://rsgb.org/main/operating/amateur-radio-awards/worked-all-uk-crown-dependency-prefixes-awards/

A Lightweight M17 Hotspot

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Until now, CC1200 Hat users had to operate their M17 digital data/voice hotspot using the rpi-interface software on the command line, for example. To change this, Jim N1ADJ and I have spent the last few days developing a lightweight M17 hotspot based on the CC1200 and a Raspberry Pi. The heart of the hotspot is Jim’s m17-gateway, which he has now brought to a stable release. In the meantime, I have completely rebuilt the rpi-dashboard, started by Wojciech SP5WWP, and adapted it to Jim’s m17-gateway.

The following things can now be done via this dashboard:

  • Monitor incoming and outgoing calls

  • Read text messages

  • Edit the configuration of the dashboard

  • Edit the configuration of the m17-gateway and thus

  • Changing the reflector

  • Changing the module

  • Changing the hotspot frequency

  • and much more

  • Updating the M17 hosts file

  • Starting/stopping the m17-gateway

  • It offers all the essential functions you need for daily use while more features are already planned. Jim is also developing his m17-gateway further, whereby we both involve each other, as gateway and dashboard go hand in hand.

It is not a ready-to-use, downloadable Raspberry Pi image, but we provide an installation script, which I have already presented here. In the meantime, this has been adapted so that it no longer installs the rpi-interface but the m17-gateway.

If there are any problems with the installation or if you have any other questions, you can find us on the M17 Discord Server.

More Information - https://rz01.org/cc1200-m17-hotspot/?utm_source=amateur-radio-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter