Author: rwardrup
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On Creating the Parks on the Air Webmap
As an Amateur Radio Operator, I frequently take my gear out to state parks to operate Parks on the Air, “international portable amateur radio operations that promote emergency awareness and communications from national/federal and state/provincial level parks.” As a Geospatial Information System professional, I thought combining the two and creating a webmap, would be pertinent.The…
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KD5LPB-1 Centennial Digipeater
I recently set up a digipeater located in Eastern Centennial, Colorado. It consists of The digirig works very well with Direwolf, and the entire thing took about 30 minutes to configure and get running. In total, it cost about $150. Not bad!
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Enabling KISS mode on the Kenwood TM-D710G
I recently picked up a new Kenwood D710G to be used for 2 meter packet radio. I decided to set up a BPQ node as the software is very powerful and offers a lot of features. In order to get the D710G working with BPQ, you must first enable KISS mode in the built-in TNC.…
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Checking the weather using packet radio
After spending some time playing around with BPQ, I have learned how powerful its applications interface is. I first followed a guide to create a system info application, allowing for checking system resources from afar. Today, I set out to create a weather application that allows the user to check their local (to the zip…
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Monitoring System Stats via BPQ & Python
While setting up my BPQ node, I came across another node that hosted an interesting application: System Info. This application displayed stats such as CPU usage, system uptime, available memory, etc. I think this would be interesting for remote management, so I decided to implement it. I found this guide, which was very helpful, but…
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The KD5LPB-7 2m BPQ32 Node
Over the past month, I’ve been at work setting up a 2 meter BQP node here in Aurora, Colorado. I chose BPQ32 as it is full of features, is well supported, and is widely used. The nodes broadcast feature is attractive to me, as I think it would be cool to have an automatically generated…