Monthly Archive for February, 2010

D-Star APRS with Icom IC-E29D & HM-175GPS mic

Published on Thu 11th Feb 10 in General. 0 Comments

A few weeks ago I ordered the Icom GPS mic from an eBay seller in Canada.

Took a little longer to be delivered than the 6-10 days I was quoted, but I blame the postal services, not the seller.

I wanted to use with the DPRS (digital APRS) & it took a bit of research and even emailing a site owner that his site was down to fine tune the settings.

Using a Combination of the links below I was able to fine tune my settings and have posted some images from the RS-92 software.

As I am usually listening to a repeater the GPS Auto TX is off.

D-PRS Calculator
This page calculates the necessary GPS message (C1 message on most Icom radios) to use your Icom radio in GPS mode (not GPS-A mode) with D-PRS. Your browser must have JavaScript enabled to use this page.

D-PRS Calculator Same as above I found when site above was down.

Cambridgeshire Repeater Group DPRS Setup

Accessing GB7GL

GB7WC.org.uk APRS

Welcome from Gadget17

Published on Thu 11th Feb 10 in General. 1 Comment

Or should that be Goodbye to???

It was well overdue, but I have decided to stop (or limit) using my old online Nickname and will use my Ham Radio callsign instead.

www.gadget17.co.uk now re-directs to www.m0tzo.co.uk

I have also stopped using elsewhere, or at least made dormant for now.

I’ve had my M0TZO callsign for 3 years+ now. I may even end up selling the domain name gadget17.co.uk, but haven’t made up my mind yet.

All the old post from gadget17.co.uk were imported into this blog, and while I will need to go through them and weed out some, they are here for now.

Finally, I hope with only one blog, I might actually get some updates on here.

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