Category Archives: General

Changes …

Posted on 2014-01-16 by James

Well, the end of an era has come. I just cancelled my 15+ year colocation contract in favour of hosting my domains in a more budget friendly sense. In a way, I regret cancelling the colocated server service as it … Continue reading →

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APRS & Soundmodem

Posted on 2013-12-12 by James

I was not satisfied with my prior results with the APRS testing, so I setup soundmodem in an Ubuntu environment on my trusty netbook and set-off to decode packets. As expected, everything went well – soundmodem was decoding local packets … Continue reading →

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AFSK packet investigation

Posted on 2013-11-04 by James

To further my investigation as to why the soundmodem TNC appears to be flaky, I decided to scope the output of some local APRS transmissions. After setting the squelch to the point where no background noise was seen / heard, … Continue reading →

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Soundmodem update

Posted on 2013-11-04 by James

So I had some initial success with the Raspberry Pi and using soundmodem as a software TNC for APRS packet radio. The success seems to have been short-lived. I am able to decode packets from test wave files that I’ve … Continue reading →

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