May 30, 2025: Another abbreviated issue as I focus on my wife's rehab after her medical incident. I did find some radio time. Coming up: new AllStar node, FT5DR batteries, and more.
Totally agree, AllStar doesn’t get enough credit and is quite a useful tool. When I first got my tech license, repeaters around me were pretty quiet, so I ended up spending a lot of time on AllStar just listening in and learning how people handle traffic. I had some really fun QSOs with folks in far-off places too. That got me interested enough to build Transceive, the macOS client for AllStar which helps you manage your node and can even connect without a node "a la" Echolink.
Oh darn it, *that* is the other app I was trying to remember when I wrote that piece: Transceive. Georges, I'm sorry that I missed including it in the article. And thank you for commenting about the utility of AllStar. It brings together several of my interests (computing, Linux, open source, and RF) in one nice package :-)
Tom... wow. Will be mentioned in Zero Retries 0204 today:
Please take the time to read this entire article [The Importance of Internet-connected Systems for Amateur Radio Community and Connections]. My reading it and re-reading it was a I never thought about it (Amateur Radio Over Internet) that way wakeup moment.
I understand and agree with everything KJ7T says in that article, and I’m proud to promote the evangelism he does for Amateur Radio Over Internet in his excellent, Zero Retries Interesting, must read Random Wire Review newsletter.
KJ7T is a Zero Retries Pseudostaffer for continuing excellent Zero Retries Interesting content like this.
Totally agree, AllStar doesn’t get enough credit and is quite a useful tool. When I first got my tech license, repeaters around me were pretty quiet, so I ended up spending a lot of time on AllStar just listening in and learning how people handle traffic. I had some really fun QSOs with folks in far-off places too. That got me interested enough to build Transceive, the macOS client for AllStar which helps you manage your node and can even connect without a node "a la" Echolink.
Oh darn it, *that* is the other app I was trying to remember when I wrote that piece: Transceive. Georges, I'm sorry that I missed including it in the article. And thank you for commenting about the utility of AllStar. It brings together several of my interests (computing, Linux, open source, and RF) in one nice package :-)
Tom... wow. Will be mentioned in Zero Retries 0204 today:
Please take the time to read this entire article [The Importance of Internet-connected Systems for Amateur Radio Community and Connections]. My reading it and re-reading it was a I never thought about it (Amateur Radio Over Internet) that way wakeup moment.
I understand and agree with everything KJ7T says in that article, and I’m proud to promote the evangelism he does for Amateur Radio Over Internet in his excellent, Zero Retries Interesting, must read Random Wire Review newsletter.
KJ7T is a Zero Retries Pseudostaffer for continuing excellent Zero Retries Interesting content like this.