Category Archives: Raspberry Pi

A quick tip for your hotspots

Posted on March 2, 2020 by g6nhu

With all the hotspots I have in the house for various modes, I decided to do something about the RF. They all run very low power but they’re only for me to use and I didn’t want the RF escaping … Continue reading →

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How to set up a Yaesu System Fusion reflector (YSFReflector)

Posted on February 20, 2020 by g6nhu

Over the last four or five years I’ve been a regular user of two digital voice modes, D-STAR and DMR. I don’t particularly like to use them to work ‘DX’ but they both have their advantages regarding linking repeaters together … Continue reading →

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Rebuilding and raising my ADS-B receiver

Posted on December 23, 2019 by g6nhu

Earlier this year I replaced my Hexbeam (with another Hexbeam) and I wrote about it on this site. There was a gap of a couple of weeks when I was between aerials and to take advantage of that, I temporarily … Continue reading →

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Essex Radar

Posted on June 18, 2019 by g6nhu

I’ve been running an instance of Virtual Radar Server (VRS) for some time and recently decided that this is something I can easily share to anyone who is interested. What is VRS though? VRS is a server running on my … Continue reading →

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Moving to VNC Connect from TeamViewer

Posted on May 27, 2019 by g6nhu

Technically this isn’t directly about amateur radio although there is a sort of radio connection. As part of my involvement with the Martello Tower Group, I look after some equipment at two of our remote sites. We have a Linux … Continue reading →

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An updated internal and external ADS-B comparison

Posted on December 23, 2018 by g6nhu

It’s been well over a year since I moved my external ADS-B receiver to the top of my Alimast and it’s been performing very well, regularly sitting in the top five of the UK receivers according to the FlightAware statistics page … Continue reading →

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Running my own DX Cluster again

Posted on August 10, 2018 by g6nhu

A few years ago I set up a DXCluster using AR-Cluster on my old Mac Mini with Windows XP installed.  It ran for a long time, I had good connections into the network and although it was listed on the … Continue reading →

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