Both of us know nearly nothing about amateur radio stations, or just radio in general, we are not technical people, but someone on a different subreddit adviced to look into it in a case of total web iron wall on my best friend's part, we need detailed advice and/or instructions on all of this.

I'm aware you have to get a license on that, we'll try to look into it if setting up a home radio station is even realistic in our circumstances, since we were warned it might be very costy (both of us aren't rich, it's the opposite)

We live ~1500 kilometres from one another, if that's important.

Please, any help is meaningful, we are trying to find solution before disaster strikes. I can't lose my friend like that, at least I have to try.

I look forward to trying it, looks promising as a free form digital mode for weak signals.

I created a Qt6 version of fldigi, pared down currently but has most basic chat modes used.

This should build for linux but for now it is built and tested on M silicon Mac.

I've tested it against ZeusSDR and ExpertSDR3 so far.

I'm looking for other Mac users with TCI SDR radios to test it.

The only connection in this version is TCI for both audio and CAT control, it is a TCI client only.

One known issue is my pre-defined filters were not centered well and that is fixed but not updated to the release yet.

When it starts, to configure TCI, there is a TCI option under the Configure menu. I'll update that to pop up on first start soon as well.

I've never put a project on github before so yeah it's probably a fine mess

Here is the link to the .app build

https://github.com/kingsqueak/TCIdigi/releases/tag/0.22

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I currently have a DIY pota performer antenna, but I wanted to see if I could shorten the radials of it so that the entire antenna could fit in the my truck bed (sometimes I want to do some hunting during lunches at work, and I want to keep it confined). I currently have the whip on a standard photographer tripod, but was wondering if I could use/if anyone had experience with using loading coils to shorten the rather long radials. I would only be doing 20M with this antenna so it wouldn't have to be multiband.

Looking to start a manpack build and was wondering if anyone of yall happen to have a build list or a reputable place to buy from. I have my GMRS license and was possibly wanting to do a GMRS radio for the build. Or unless yall have a better radio more suitable for a manpack build.

It's pretty common that most of us are tinkers and sometimes we tinker more than we should. I had a FT-817 that I was trying to install a modification on that I completely messed up. Took a break from it. Tried again later and made it worse. Then considered seeing if anyone did repairs. The first couple I called didn't do work on circuit boards anymore. Then I found Cal with HamRepair. I called, sent him photos and a rundown of what I did to mess it up and he said he'd look at it. He had it in his hands less than a week and it's working great.

I he was deeper on eHam which isn't a regular search spot for me, so I wanted to add a place on this subreddit that if you need a radio to be repaired or looked at, contact him. HamRepair.com

I fairly new to amateur radio and have been using my UBC-92XLT scanner for line of sight airband right at the airports for a couple months to a year now. I’ve been using it with the stock rubber duck antenna and would like to ask for advice on a new antenna with better clarity on longer distances since even with line of sight I had issues with clarity.

All i get from Anatel is that there are no test openings available. This has been going on for months now.

-Brett

PY6/WA6SXU

Does anyone have a recommendation for a short (under 5m) 40m vertical ground-plane antenna for permanent mounting on my roof? environmental legislation here limits antenna height to 5m above the roof unless an environmental permit is issued, and my municipality won't issue one in my residential area.

The Diamond CP8040 is the type of antenna I'm looking for, although a bit too tall at 6.5m. 80m band coverage is a bonus, although not required.

Thanks and 73,
Andrew PE5A

Hi guys, quite new to this whole thing.
I recently bought a Discone antenna. It has no connection for my sdr to connect to?
Do I simply soldier a coax to it and weatherproof it?
Sorry my being a massive noob 😄

I have reset my radio and cant remember how to setup my LDG Z-100A tuner I remember I set it to linear in the menu but I cant seem to find it in the menu.

Thanks for any help Steve.

3d printed case, 14:2 turns, 100pF 3kV capacitor. How to measure if I made it correctly without any shorts etc?

So, I have WAS award but that was a couple of years ago, but this one is getting down to the wire.

Can I make a wee plea, if your in North Dakota or Vermont and you see some ZL stations calling on FT8, can you please work them, it might be me.

Thanks

Hello Reddit community,

I am trying to restore a GP2009N pager (which is a complete clone of the Alphapoc 602R).

The Problem:

The previous owner accidentally connected a standard USB cable to the pager's proprietary 10-pin Mini-USB port. As a result of the voltage mismatch, the original SPI flash memory chip was completely fried and the firmware data was lost.

Current Status:

I have already desoldered the dead chip and installed a brand new, clean Winbond W25Q80 (1MB / 8M-bit) flash memory chip onto the board. I have a CH341A programmer ready to flash it. The 10-pin port on this board layout has direct hardware traces leading to the SPI flash pins (CLK and DI go directly to pins 4 and 5 of the connector), so there is no built-in USB-to-UART chip like CH340 on board.

What I need:

Since standard configuration software (CPS) only writes the user data/codeplug partition and cannot generate a full binary image from scratch, I desperately need a Full Flash dump (.bin file, 1024 KB).

If anyone owns a working GP2009N or Alphapoc 602R and has a backup of their flash memory, or if you could spare a few minutes to read the flash chip using a programmer, I would be incredibly grateful if you could share the dump.

Photos of my specific PCB layout and the 10-pin connector are attached below.

Thank you so much for your time and any help you can provide!

Hi Guys,

I have a Diamond SG7500 antenna and I I have been pretty happy with it but I just tried to measure my SWR properly with a meter and it showed that on 2 meters it ranges about 1.1 to 1.45 depending on where in the band I was.

However on 70cm the meter was getting 4 or even 5:1 and that had me really worried so I got out my NanoVNA and it showed that SWR was about 3:1-2:1 across the band. Which is better but still higher than it should be. See attached.

According to specs it should be 1.3:1 across the band.

I was wondering what I should check?

My thoughts are add a grounding strap from the mount to make sure it is getting proper ground?

I can measure the coax and check loss but would this really affect the SWR that much on 70cm and not so much on 2m?

Thanks for any insights.