Author Archives: Daniel

MeshCom installation

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Daniel

MeshCom is a great project for off-grid messaging using low-cost and low-power-consuming hardware. The platform used LORA to be able to build a mesh. Have a look at the setup I build and how this all works. Thanks to great … Continue reading →

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Repairing a Rohde & Schwarz SMDU

Posted on January 6, 2024 by Daniel

From a good friend I was given a Rohde & Schwarz SMDU which needed some love and care. Martin, DL8RI, did a phenominal job in documenting his SMDU repair work on this website: I followed a lot of the work … Continue reading →

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Amateur Radio – The official Documentary

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Daniel

Please check out this great documentary on HAM radio produced by students from the School of Visual and Media Arts program at the University of Montana in 2022. Aired on Montana PBS on November 24th, 2022.

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Achied the eUK-6 eQSL Award today!

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Daniel
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OpenGD77 on the TYT MD-9600 / Retevis RT-90

Posted on May 22, 2022 by Daniel

I always like the MD-9600 as a radio but disliked the firmware. Therefor I got really excited that I read that OpenGD77 got ported to this radio. I started with a v2 hardware radio and installed the Alpha version that … Continue reading →

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ARDC & DARC

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Daniel

After a long period of alignment and working on the non-US 501(c)(3) equivalency determination, DARC is now finally non-US 501(c)(3) equivalent and able to receive grants from the ARDC Foundation. Please have a look at the press release here:

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Rebuilding HAMNET at the Hochries mountain

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Daniel
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Building a 23cm NBFM transceiver!

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Daniel

after I installed 2 Diamond X5000 antennas on my roof and I played a bit with my 23cm transverter from SG-Lab ( http://www.sg-lab.com/TR1300/tr1300.html ) I wanted a dedicated 23cm FM transceiver. On E-bay there was no real offering and the … Continue reading →

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eQSL eDX 50 Award achieved!!

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Daniel
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eQSL eDX 25 Award achieved!!

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Daniel
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