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In 2020, Bob Freeth, G4HFQ announced that he was going to cease production of his extremely well written programming software due to ongoing health problems. His site is now no longer resolving. A few years previous to this, I registered FTB7900 and FTB8800 as I owned these radios at the time. His software is a […]

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Rick, M5RJC got in touch to ask if there was a way to sort the repeaters in the CSV by distance from a grid square. I took a few days to think how to best implement this without having to undergo a major rewrite of the existing code (which I do not have the time […]

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A new update to Pi-Star has been released on 27th January 2021 to enable users to switch between RadioID.net and QRZ.com without the need to edit source code or download a script. To change to QRZ.com, follow these instructions: Step 1 Ensure that you have updated to the latest version – 20210127 (or presumably later) […]

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This information pertains only to the 20210125 version of Pi-Star. If you are running version 20210127 or later then please see the updated guide at https://www.m0lxq.com/update-restoring-qrz-on-pi-star/ Do NOT run the script on version 20210127 or later On 25th January 2021 an update was released for Pi-Star that changed the default callsign look up on the […]

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It’s the 1st of December and that means that 2020 is almost over. I don’t think there will be many people who will look back at 2020 with fond memories. 2020 always sounded so futuristic to me; a year with so much possibility. Let’s just say the reality was a little underwhelming! I haven’t done […]

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I have always wondered about a vanity callsign for my US licence. I was automatically assigned KEØGGA when I passed my technician and general class exams and that was just fine. When I passed by extra class, I saw that KØLX was available but my licence class hadn’t been upgraded at that point so I […]

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Hello, and welcome to my blog! I’ll try to post things of interest here from time to time. Thanks for stopping by 🙂

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