August 15, 2025: I've put an extended battery by W0AEZ into service on a Yaesu FT5DR, and tried three different portable antennas with a Kenwood TS-50S transceiver.
Tom - Thanks for your continued tutorials and advocacy of AllStarLink. It's taken me a while to fully grasp where ASL fits into the greater Amateur Radio Over Internet ecosystem(s). I've learned a lot over the past few months and getting online with ASL for extended conversations with folks like you that are out of "simplex or local repeater" range, is now in the queue. (Admittedly, it's down in that queue a bit given ZRDC 2025 and other more urgent projects in N8GNJ / Zero Retries Labs.) And, great news on your wife's getting IPR.
Tom - Thanks for your continued tutorials and advocacy of AllStarLink. It's taken me a while to fully grasp where ASL fits into the greater Amateur Radio Over Internet ecosystem(s). I've learned a lot over the past few months and getting online with ASL for extended conversations with folks like you that are out of "simplex or local repeater" range, is now in the queue. (Admittedly, it's down in that queue a bit given ZRDC 2025 and other more urgent projects in N8GNJ / Zero Retries Labs.) And, great news on your wife's getting IPR.