Month: July 2020

How to update and upgrade your Pi-Star based hotspot

Amateur radio, D-STAR, DMR, Hotspot, How to ..., Raspberry Pi, Yaesu System Fusion
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PI-Star SSH logged in

There are a couple of methods of updating a Pi-Star based MMDVM hotspot, one upgrades Pi-Star itself and the other method does a full operating system update as well as Pi-Star. The Pi itself automatically runs a process overnight that updates the host file and various other things but this is how to do a […]

Broken hexbeam – Worst aerial damage I’ve had

Amateur radio, Broken aerial, HF
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Hexbeam back up

Back in February, the UK was hit heavily by two overlapping storms, Ciara and Dennis and it was during these storms that my hexbeam took the hit that broke it. Here you can see the aerials being blown about badly and although I didn’t realise it at the time, the initial damage had already been […]