Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN) is a mesh network deployed by Amateur Radio operators to provide a broadband data network which does not rely on external network providers to provide high speed data connection in a time of emergency.
AREDN is quite small in Australia and almost non-existent in Western Australia.
This is my attempt to generate some interest in setting up and AREDN network in Western Australia.
If you are interested, please drop me a line at vk6dev@gmail.com
This post is a reference document where I will be recording reference material related to APRS, how it works and what we can do with it.
What is a Path?
Initial Path settings.
Reading a Path record after the fact.
Interested in using a Raspberry Pi in your Amateur Radio life? Then Read on…
Continue reading “Raspberry Pi in Portable Amateur Radio”Making my own allstarlink node
For Hams in Australia, there is a simple solution. Check out vk44.net. This free (at the moment) service for AR operators in Australia provides a simple solution which securely allows remote access to your node anywhere in the world with very little configuration.
I connected my node to the Vk44 network in less than a day with most of that time being waiting for the VPN to be setup by the volunteers at Vk44.net and another large chunk waiting for my PI to update. Once this was completed, the configuration of the VPN on my Pi took only about 10 mins. Install the VPN client, copy and paste the provided configuration into a configuration file and reboot. Very simple.
This page is a work in progress. It will be updated with new information as I gather it.
Continue reading “Weather Information for Australia”This post is a work in progress. I will update it as I have more information.
What is JS8Call?
What is JS8Call useful for?
Who Uses JS8Call?
Continue reading “JS8Call”Since beginning to setup my shack in September, I have been looking at organised ways of distributing power to all the equipment I currently have and the new projectsI have planned.
Continue reading “Power Distribution”This post is a work in progress I will update it as I discover relevant information.
What is Winlink?
Why use Winlink Email?
(Some not thought through, just here as a reminder)
This post is a work in progress. It will be updated over time as I find more relevant information.
Continue reading “FT8 Digital Mode”FT8 is a popular form of digital weak signal communication used primarily by amateur radio operators to communicate on amateur radio bands with a majority of traffic occurring on the HF amateur bands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FT8
Last night I setup my new Nooelec StartXR SDR on the tables outside and connected the Ham-it-up module and antenna.
I successfully received my first HF digital signals. It was very noisy as the telescopic antenna supplied with the kits is not the best for HF receiving. So the next project will be to build (or maybe buy) myself a better antenna for receiving HF.
There seems to be quite a bit of QRM at my place, so that seems like something I’ll need to track down.
