Tom aka F8COD
tomtheguyonwheels.bsky.social
Tom aka F8COD
@tomtheguyonwheels.bsky.social
Je fais... Des trucs. Plein.
February 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Well I was a little bit too busy to work on the QMX these days, so I decided to indulge myself with a new rig. My KX1 would like to welcome X6100 in the family !
February 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A new fork from aprsdroid with interesting features (mic-e, igate, digi, BLE, etc...) is showing up, it's based on OSM. Check it out : #aprs
youtu.be/X1g7xctMJqY
NA7Q's APRS Droid with new features!
YouTube video by KM6LYW Radio
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
While waiting for the news psu boards to arrive, I'm working on my #CW with Vband and a BH8DZE usb interface for the paddle. I had to remap the buttons 2 and 3 for it to work. On Arch linux it's done with :
xinput set-button-map 13 1 3 2 4 5 6 7
Where 13 is the Vband interface number.
January 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by Tom aka F8COD
Back in the days of punch cards, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and a software patch meant a piece of tape...🦖
January 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
As suspected, not only D108 but D106 died too. I ordered two sets of boards, but now I have to figure out WHY these two died. #QMX
January 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Hmmm... I feel like a love/hate relationship building up with the QMX. Just after flashing it for the first time and exploring the menus, I accidentally pulled the power plug and the qmx crashed. I can acces the terminal to get a diagnostic screen but that's all. apparently I killed the 5V board.
January 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I recently had to unsolder some pcb connectors and melted some old hard rosin on unsoldering braid. Damn, it works better than my copper braid, it literally sucks the solder in the braid.
January 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Damn this one was tricky! #morsle
January 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Reposted by Tom aka F8COD
On attend toujours une réponse équivalente de l’Union européenne et de ses États membres … :
January 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Not easy to fit the toroids and evenly spread the wire on the QMX, it's tight !
January 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The unsigned.io firmware has a limitation on TX power at 17dBm even on hardware able to tx more, looking at the source it's in sx127x.cpp line 342? Now the issue is , 've found how to recompile it with arduino-cli but can't upload it, it needs a stk500 programmer.
January 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Allez c'est parti pour l'assemblage du QMX !
January 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Let's do some old tech packet radio with new tech lora t-beam. Unsigned.io rnode firmware on a ttgo lora32in tnc mode with linbpq bbs software on the node, T-beam as a kiss AX25 tnc on the client laptop. It's gonna be fun. #lora #hamradio #bpq32
December 14, 2024 at 3:08 PM