December 5, 2025: This issue is computer heavy and radio light. Still, you'll find some tidbits about AllStar and Meshtastic, and even the M1KE transceiver.
Impressive setup walkthrough, especially the Proxmox experimention on 64GB RAM. The fstab issue after removing the USB drive is a classic catch that trips up even experienced admins when switching to more stateful hypervisors. Your SSL certificate setup for the AllStar node is pratical security hardening, tho it raises an intresting question about whether reverse proxies for home lab setups introduce more attack surface than they mitigate given the added complexity. The M1KE transceiver sounds like it could bridge that gap between traditional RF work and IP-based modes in ways that weren't possible even a few years back.
I'm also fiddling with a different web page system on a different node. This one will use the very lightweight Feather Wiki for the front-end pages. We'll see how that goes!
Impressive setup walkthrough, especially the Proxmox experimention on 64GB RAM. The fstab issue after removing the USB drive is a classic catch that trips up even experienced admins when switching to more stateful hypervisors. Your SSL certificate setup for the AllStar node is pratical security hardening, tho it raises an intresting question about whether reverse proxies for home lab setups introduce more attack surface than they mitigate given the added complexity. The M1KE transceiver sounds like it could bridge that gap between traditional RF work and IP-based modes in ways that weren't possible even a few years back.
Thank you. I do like experimenting and learning!
As I type this, I have the M1KE listening to a net and a BTECH UV-PRO (https://www.randomwire.us/i/167485444/a-handheld-radio-that-checks-the-boxes-for-me) handheld listening to the same net. It's interesting to hear the differences in both audio and timing. One lags slightly behind the other.
I'm also fiddling with a different web page system on a different node. This one will use the very lightweight Feather Wiki for the front-end pages. We'll see how that goes!
You can do everything on the web interface which you can do on the device display. You can copy configuration profiles on the Settings page of the web interface: https://manuals.sharkrf.com/m1ke/web/settings/cfgprofile.html
And you are absolutely right. I don't know how I missed that, but I did. I will correct the content in the newsletter. *Thank you*