M17 is cool stuff. Looking forward to their HT being completed. :) For now an MD-380 can be modified fairly easily. or Droidstar can be used.

Microsoft Surface Pro 7, 8 Gb Ram, 128 Gb storage. I was running Linux on it, but just recently made the switch back to Windows.

Chips, with no dip. Some reason I like them plain. But, I will never turn down anything that resembles dip.

I completed the codeplug. I will send it to the folks over at PAPA systems so they can post it. It is a lot of work to build so if I can save people some headache I will.

About 1/2 way through building the codeplug. If anyone is a PAPA member I will submit it to the web team for availability on the website.

I was reading a post on the other site about a guy who really had a bad experience. I guess he posted asking questions about material on the test but phrased them in the first person. A number of people really lit him up. Basically accused him of being a war criminal. Needless to say we really should self police when we see stuff like that going on.

Shari nodes are pretty cool. Honestly I jump around a lot between all my nodes. I use one for my D-Star stuff, and another for DMR/M17. M17 is a work in progress. The thing I like most about SHARI nodes, you build them yourself. It feels less like buying a product, and more like buying a fun project. Mine took me about 2 hours to build up. I have a reasonable amount of linux experience.

Building the codeplug for this thing is pretty epic. Of course the code plug isn’t the same as the one for the 390.

The price between this and the KX base aren’t that far off. So probably a decent comparison. The BP-500 battery pack is difficult to come by, but I am considering making my own. For now, I am using bioenno batteries. I was also torn between this and the KX line but this one was available and I was in a sales tax-free state, so I jumped. Others have compared this with the IC-705. I think the 705 is more fully featured, but not really designed to withstand abuse.

It was down a couple of months ago for me. Recently started working again.

That’s super cool. Some day I hope to hear that.

Had a chance to work through some of this during the week. Got the resistor installed and the lead on the battery contact side of the board that goes to the front. Then I found that my soldering iron isn’t small enough to make the contact on the STM32. So now I need to order some new tips for the iron.

Also found something neat last night. I wasn’t expecting this, but sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade did not break the installation on the nano pi. For ~$50 access points, this software really opens things up. The default software ‘pi-star’ wasn’t maintained as well for the nano pi.

I still need to get proficient with morse code. I was trending toward that goal last year, but deviated off the path.

Nice write-up. Quite clear.

Just installed this on my nanopi spot. It seems to be working splendidly. Now it is time to set up the M17 functionality.

Bummer, it looks like the i-Gate github page hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. This seems like a promising project. it does look like the original project is more active.

When you were on older equipment ~ESS5 typically your 57.6K modem would connect at a slower speed. The auto-negotiation did work well this way.

This is Beast!!, a nano-pi image to boot. I am going to have to give this a go.

Do you mean make a dial-up modem faster by means of modifying the protocol by which they use to communicate?

If so, the answer is more maybe than anything else. Before broadband manufacturers were doing everything they could to eek out every ounce of speed the POTS would allow them to. So yeah maybe there were some inefficiencies in their protocols, but the differences would not be earth shattering. Also some of the issues were limitations of the POTS.