Making Contacts & Collaborating

Just a fun, relaxing, and skill-building hobby I have been diving into and looking to expand my footprint and go digital.

About

This is an my hobby website, which is mainly about Amateur Radio and IT tech enthusiasts done in my spare time.

I am a member of my local Amateur Radio Club, VFW Member.

Here is some of the gear I currently have and run for my Amateur Radio hobby.

Radio’s

Yaesu FT-991A

Yaesu FTX-1 Optima

Yaesu FTM-150RASP w/ DigiRig Mobile interface for APRS

Yaesu FTM-310DRASP (Truck) w/ DigiRig Mobile

Yaesu FT5DR

Kenwood TH-D75A

Anytone AT-D878UV II Plus

Radioddity DB-25D

Antenna’s

Diamond Antenna X30A Dual-Band Base/Repeater Antennas x2 (Base Station)

DX Commander CLASSIC 2 HF Multi-Band Vertical Antennas CLASSIC2

CHA EMCOMM II - 60' End Fed Wire, Bands: 6M - 160M

Falcon 10M Dipole 1/2 Wave Antenna

JPC-12 GP Portable Shortwave Antenna

Diamond Antenna Dual-Band Mobile Antennas NR770HNMO (Truck)

KB9VBR 2 Meter Slim Jim Antenna

GMRS Radio's

Midland MXT575 (Truck)

Radioddity DB-20G

BTECH GMRS Pro

KB9VBR GMRS Slim Jim Antenna

Meshcore

Muzi Works - H2T Heltec T114 w/ GPS

Muzi Works R1 w/ external antenna

RAKwireless WisMesh Pocket v2 w/ GPS

LilyGo T-Deck Plus

LilyGo T-Echo

ESP32 LoRa V4 x2 (One Repeater, One Truck setup)

Raspberry Pi’s

Raspberry Pi 5 w/ DigiPi - APRS Digipeater, APRS Webchat

Raspberry Pi 4B w/ duplex MMDVM Hat running WPSD Hotspot (Local DMR Groups)

Raspberry Pi 4B w/ duplex MMDVM Hat running WPSD Hotspot (National DMR, Yaesu System Fusion)

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W w/ duplex MMDVM Hat running Pi-Star (D-star)

Raspberry Pi 4B w/ NW Digital ThumbDV USB stick running XLX Reflector & AMBE Server