The node is back up after a year offline! At a different location, as I’m “between homes” right now.
Node 57080 is my Allstarlink Lego Box Pi3B node, built, configured and sold to me by eBay user Willywoe. It allows me to connect to Hubnet and Echolink over t’internet from a small, low power 70cm band Amateur Radio walkie-talkie (Baofeng BF-88), if I’m within 50 metres of the house.
Seen here with ace technician Alasdair “Goggles” McTavish.
Back in May this year, 6 weeks into the First Lockdown, having no prospects of getting to go anywhere to test them properly, I bought myself a pair of Floureon M-880 PMR446 Walkie Talkies.
Earlier this year, before the country went insane again, we managed to have a holiday in Southport. I love Southport. It has just enough junk shops to keep me happy, but not so many that I get Junk Shop Fatigue. Anyway, I was enticed into one by an old GPO telephone in the window, but ended up buying this instead:
Behold, the Midland 98 Plus.
Currently my Amateur Radio transmitters and recievers are Baofeng UV-5Rs.
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When I first got back into radio, in October ’19, I decided to start off with a package deal, figuring that I’d start with something basic, and upgrade as required. So I went for a CRT One-N and bundled antenna.
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