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<\/a><\/p>\nNow to wait for people to use it. I find it a bit of cheating to use my WoAD Android tablet with D74 connecting to my own gateway 20 ft away just to check Winlink mail (don’t we hams make comms more complicated? Just mention hotspots to the muggles haha).<\/p>\n
It was a fun journey to get this station up. Now to harden it, clean up the cable clutter, and give it a permanent home in my shack.<\/p>\n
Send me Winlink email!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winlink RMS Gateway AD6DM-10 is up, and serving the ham community. After collecting parts of this system for a few weeks, it is operational on 145.630 MHz in CM98hj. It is comprised of: An Alinco DR-135T VHF 2 meter transceiver set to 20 watts power An Arrow OSJ J-Pole up 21 ft at the home QTH A Masters Communications DRA-50 radio sound card interface with an Alinco-6 Mini DIN 6 adapter And a mini PC (Windows 10) and running on 12 volt power. Solar charged offgrid LiFePO4 battery power, for uninterrupted uptime (same system the shack rig uses). Software running the gateway are: UZ7HO Soundmodem, software TNC that provides PTT… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9naFX-jF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1472,"url":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2024\/04\/vara-fm-packet-dual-mode-winlink-gateway-in-linux\/","url_meta":{"origin":1219,"position":0},"title":"VARA FM \/ Packet Dual-Mode Winlink Gateway in Linux","author":"AD6DM","date":"April 11, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I was all set and ready to script my way into hopes and daydreams of elegant linux reliability. 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As I begin to look ahead to goals and daydreams of 2019, it's always good to not expect the past to be the norm, but to take a moment and appreciate all the stuff that's happened good and bad. 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After I put it together, I looked on GoSatWatch app to see the next pass of well-known amateur satellites. I immediately recognized that AO-92 was going to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antennas"","block_context":{"text":"Antennas","link":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/category\/antennas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":443,"url":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2018\/03\/choosing-the-next-rig\/","url_meta":{"origin":1219,"position":5},"title":"Choosing the Next Rig","author":"AD6DM","date":"March 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In my quest to find the next portable rig (I already decided), I made a comparison sheet with stats about the various rigs I was considering. Here is my portable rig matrix (including handhelds). 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