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I did an FT8 talk at an NHARC meeting a while back. It wasn’t the usual “here’s how to install WSJT-X” program, mostly because everyone in the room had already done that part. What I wanted to do was open up one 15-second transmission and go through what’s actually inside it. Slides are a bad […]
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This is a practical walkthrough for linking multiple AllStarLink repeater nodes through a single public hub node using a hub-and-spoke topology. The goal is to have two (or more) repeater nodes connect privately to a central hub, with the hub being the only publicly-listed node. Audio from any repeater is distributed to all connected nodes. […]
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Introduction I’ve been working on setting up an Echolink node for the North Hills Amateur Radio club W3EXW repeater on 147.090MHz in the Pittsburgh area. This blog post is a record primarily for myself in case I need to do this again (or anyone else in the club if I accidentally touch the finals on […]