My holiday shack

A picture of my holiday shack!



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dual antenna hotspots

I've got two MMDVM hotspots with me here in the Spanish Pyrenees. One is a Jumbospot on a Pi Zero W and the other is a dual antenna hotspot on a Raspberry Pi B. When on the dual antenna hotspot I noticed that at the end of a QSO I could hear the last two seconds of my own voice when I de-keyed. I suspect, but haven't measured, that a dual antenna hotspot in duplex mode uses twice as much data to send an receive the QSO. So on holiday a simplex hotspot will use half the data during a QSO when compared to a dual antenna hotspot. I suspect the test will be to see what happens when only TG9 is running with no Internet connection. If I hear my own voice then the hotspot re-transmits the received signal rather than the stream if receives from the network the Brandmeister/Fusion server. Testing this is left as an exercise for the reader, I'm on holiday! ;-)
Read more

The saddist thing I ever saw

Image
I went for a walk with my wife yesterday along the beach at L'Escala. I have a habit of keeping an eye out for antennae and at the beach I saw this one. Imagine your favourite tourist location being equipped with an antenna that you could use for a quick bit of radio action! I was all excited but then my heart sank when I noticed that the coax had been cut. The antenna was abandoned with just a bit of coax flapping in the wind. It made me slightly sad :-(
Read more

WIFI connections for Pi-Star on the raspberry pi

My hotspot is setup to connect to three WiFi networks 1) my home network, 2) tethered to my mobile phone and 3) my hotspot. The Pi-Star wifi settings (and for most Linux distrubtions are stored in a file located in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. Mine looks like this: #cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 ap_scan=1 fast_reauth=1 country=UK network={     ssid="wifihome"     psk="mypassword"     id_str="0"     priority=100 } network={     ssid="mobilephone"     psk="mypassword"     id_str="1"     priority=99 } network={         ssid="holidayhotspot"         psk="mypassword"         id_str="2"         priority=98 } Note that each entry has a ...
Read more