Radio moves

I now have a Raspberry Pi set up on one of the four monitors in the shack. The original layout was two screens at the top on Linux, then bottom left on Windows and bottom right - central to where I sit on the Mac as the main screen. But that layout had two major issues... I use a program called Barrier to basically act as a KVM switch for the three systems with the Mac as server. That way the Mac mouse and keyboard controls any of the systems, although it can be awkward sometimes where Windows expects keys which Apple doesn't have. But Barrier does not understand dual monitors and so moving the mouse up from the Mac got to the Linux box fine, but moving it down from the left hand screen would not get to Windows as the program does not see it being physically there. I could live with that, except for issue two... The main issue was with the Linux screens being at the top and thus making me sit back or crank my neck upwards, not a good position. So... I got to realising that although I use both screens on the Linux…

I actually spotted this little CB handheld via one of M0XFB's Tiktok videos. CB is not particularly active round here but even so I felt a handheld bit would still make a good addition to my kit. It will manage the full 4W output and has both the UK FM, and EU FM / AM ranges. https://www.thunderpole.co.uk/thunderpole-t-x-overview.html explains it better than me. It has the ubiquitous rubber duck type antenna but the antenna connector usefully is a BNC. No idea what the range will be with that antenna but it's certainly a handy little thing.

Messing around with packet today via the FT817 and Windows 10 PC. I'm getting used to two programs, WinRPR which supports Robust packet, and, of course, UZ7HO's SoundModem. There was a lot of APRS activity via RP on 10.1473MHz USB and it all decodes nicely in WinRPR. Then on to SoundModem on 14.105MHz LSB (Network105). There were a few more decodes since I took the screenshot. My next step is to find a client to tx APRS.