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The questions of the week for the 10/17/25 FediFridayWinlinkNet was “Does your ham radio activity change with the seasons, and if so how?” Here re teh responses:

For the 10/10/25 #FediFridayWinlinkNet, the question was “What is your favorite HT?” The responses were interesting and somewhat surprising to me, and I have summarized them here.

I have been thinking about restarting the Fedi Friday Winlink Net (FFWN). I’ve got a bit more breathing room with work right now and I think it would be fun to get it going again. I’ve also been trying to check-in weekly to the Great Lakes Area Winlink Net (GLAWN) which is a much larger […]

There are a few options for viewing LoRa APRS stations on the web in a map-based display. Of course, one could just go to https://aprs.fi/ and set some filters by station type, destination callsign, etc. The most comprehensive “ready to go” LoRa APRS map viewer appears to be https://lora.ham-radio-op.net/ which is run by EA2RCF. I […]

The FediFridayWinlinkNet question of the week on 5/31/24 was “What is the most interesting or unique place from which you have operated a #hamradio?” We had some really interesting answers! See the list below.

Here are the responses to the #FediFridayWinlinkNet question from 05/03/2024: What are your #hamradio weekend plans?

A couple of folks have asked for my configuration files for my LoRa APRS trackers and i-gates, so I thought I would just share them in a follow-up post. Be sure to read my first and second LoRa APRS posts. Here is my tracker_config.json file: And here is my igate_conf.json file: In each case you […]

For the FediFridayWinlinkNet on 04/12/2024, the prompt of the week was to describe your most memorable QSO. Here are some of the responses.

I’ve been experimenting with and using LoRa APRS for a couple of weeks now. Here is the first post I wrote about getting started with it. If you haven’t read that one yet, I suggest you start there. I’ve also been trying to learn a bit more about the LoRa modulation (or “Frequency Shift Chirp […]

A local amateur operator (WB5PJB Gary) reached out to me recenty to see if I wanted to get involved using LoRa APRS on 433 MHz. Gary and I used to talk quit a bit years ago when were experimenting with D-STAR and D-RATS file transfers, but we had never met in person. I had played […]