🚗 BenshiDash: A Ham Radio Cockpit in the Making!
Hey everyone! I'm excited to share the progress on a passion project of mine: BenshiDash . The goal is to create a sleek, car-dashboard-style interface for Benshi-compatible ham radios (like the GMRS-PRO). Think of it as…
📡 APRS.Chat – The Modern Mailbox for Your APRS Callsign! 🚀
Are you an amateur radio enthusiast or APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System) user looking for a smarter way to manage your messages? Meet APRS.Chat – the website and Android app designed to make your APRS messaging se…
Surgery update
hello everyone, for those of you who don’t know I had surgery on the 17th of this month. I am doing well and hopefully will be getting discharged sometime today. I will be out for 2 to 3 months of work, but will hopefull…
The Mobile Control Head Continues!
I know many of you have been waiting for an update to the OP25MCH application. However, it was based on Python/Kivy because that's what I was most comfortable with. Today, I'm announcing a continuation and well, another …
A Portable APRS Frequency Monitor
This was something I put together while working on some APRS app ideas that I had. It uses the on-board GPS of your android phone and grabs filtered data from the APRS/IS network and shows you active stations that are be…
IZ8BLY P3D Decoder
Originally developed to be a decoder for the AO-40 Amateur satellite, we can also use it to decode the beacon on the QO-100 Geostationary Satellite. The website that originally hosted the software is going, so I decided …
Tracking Doppler with SDR++ and gPredict!
When it comes to monitoring satellites for new users, especially without spending a ton of money, there's nothing better than Low Earth Orbiting Satellites (LEOs, or Birds). However, one of the more difficult things to d…
Decoding VHF ACARS on Linux
I was playing around with my UV-K5 radio scanning Airband, something I haven't done in many many years. I stumbled on what sounded like a digital signal, some sort of data. A quick search and sure enough, VHF ACARS! So n…
Automatic Site Switching
I'm excited to announce that automatic site switching is finally working on the remote control head. As of this posting I've not yet made a video on this feature. Essentially we are importing radio reference data for the…
Monitoring ERT Utility Meters!
GitHub: https://github.com/SarahRoseLives/AndAMR AndAMR is an Android app that allows you to pull data from RTLAMR (An itron ERT monitoring application) and display it in a nice ScrollView on your screen. We accomplish t…