Curated amateur radio news from around Colorado and the broader ham world. Links go to the original sources.
Garden of the Gods Amateur Radio Club reported that Mike Mennor, KF0UTU, returned for the second part of a September presentation on building DMR hotspots. The Colorado Springs-area club said the session focused on putting a low-power hotspot on the…
MeshCore has separated the shared USA/Canada recommended preset into distinct regional choices, according to a September 9 report from Mesh America. The USA preset retains its existing defaults. The new Canada preset keeps the same listed radio parameters—910.525 MHz, spreading…
SafecomLink and German radio-equipment retailer WiMo have announced SafecomLink for Pactor – Hamradio Edition, a software client intended to pair an SCS PACTOR modem with a standard HF transceiver. The announcement says the edition is available through WiMo now, either…
WeatherXM has unveiled the D2 Mesh, a solar-powered, off-grid weather-station kit designed to send local readings over LoRa using Meshtastic or MeshCore rather than Wi-Fi or a cellular plan. Mesh America reports that one firmware build can also use WeatherXM’s…
Edge of Space Sciences has scheduled EOSS-406, a high-altitude balloon flight carrying student experiments, for Saturday, October 17, from Deer Trail. The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association is sponsoring the flight, which EOSS describes as a…
A new UHF repeater has joined the SkyHubLink system in northeastern Colorado. SkyHubLink reports that N2SKY at Crook is now on the air and linked, adding a new access point for the network between Sterling and Julesburg along Interstate 76.…
Chaffee Lake Amateur Radio Association has scheduled three September activities for central Colorado operators: a technical club meeting on Tuesday, September 8, the Colorado QSO Party on Saturday, September 12, and a fox hunt on Saturday, September 26. The meeting…
MeshCore Companion App version 1.49.0 adds a direct way to trace the current route to and from a repeater, giving users a clearer view of how their traffic is crossing an off-grid LoRa mesh. Although the underlying app release arrived…
The FreeDV project has released FreeDV 2.4.0, an update to its open-source HF digital-voice software for amateur radio. The release is a practical maintenance update rather than a new codec or on-air mode, but it improves several pieces of the…
MeshCore users building gateways and custom applications have a clearer picture of the firmware’s KISS Modem role following an August explanation from developer Michael Overhorst, reported by Mesh America. The role changes a MeshCore radio from a phone-app node into…