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Feeding high quality audio files for the IC7300s voice keyer

In THIS POST, I showed you how to key your IC7300s voice keyer using a COM command from N1MM. But sometimes, you wanna have real nice sounding audio for that CQ call - maybe even alter it a bit in audio processing for that extra ooomph that a recording with

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How to key IC7300 internal voice keyer using N1MM+ CAT commands

Are you SSB Contesting with an IC7300? Using N1MM+? Still using the display or even the very expensive contest console to trigger the internal voice keyer? Not anymore! After hours of digging, I found a not really well documented CAT command for the IC7300, allowing to key the voice keyer

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Why I choose an ICOM over Yaesu (most of the time) /// Warum ich (meistens) ICOM statt Yaesu benutze

Why I use ICOM instead of Yaesu (most of the time), specifically, why I use the IC7300 vs FT710

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Install TQSL on Ubuntu Linux

So on Linux, if you like to have a current version of TQSL, you have to build it yourself. Sounds scary? It isn't, with this tutorial.

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Amateurfunk - warum macht man sowas heutzutage noch?

"Warum machst du das mit diesem Funk da überhaupt heutzutage?", ist die Frage meines Arbeitskollegen, die mich wieder einmal da sitzen lässt und mich um eine Antwort ringen lässt. Die Antwort darauf ist nuanciert, hoch individuell und gar nicht so einfach erklärt. Dieser Artikel ist hauptsächlich gerichtet an

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Introducing Parrrot - a software parrot for TRX without built in ones

I have a portable rig I use for POTA activations, the Yaesu FT-857D. I love it to death, but it has one flaw: No voice parrot. And if the conditions aren't great and I have to call for a bit, that'll f... up my voice pretty

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Funkamateur Essentials - Ein Einblick in den Alltag für Newcomer. Was brauchst du? Was brauchst du nicht?

Dieser Artikel gibt Denkanstöße, welche Services, Software, Hardware und Informationen du als neuer Funkamateur verwenden bzw. ggf. veröffentlichen solltest. Was brauchst du als Newcomer, was braucht du nicht?

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Different logs and configs in WSJT-X for different callsigns

Sometimes a amateur radio operator not only operates his personal callsign, sometimes, he operates a special event call, a club station, or another personal callsign he owns in another country. For each of this possibilities, you wanna have different logs and maybe even a different configuration for WSJT-X. Of course,

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Getting WavelogGate to run on the Raspberry Pi

Recently, I wanted to use my IC9700 a little more, so I established a VHF FT8 station using a Raspberry Pi 5. As I'm using Wavelog now as my daily logging software, I'm using WaveLogGate as a connector to send my FT8 QSOs to Wavelog. The

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Releasing the DB4SCW award management suite!

As already stated here and finally here, I created two pieces of software. These pieces, namely Hamawardz and Coordinatorr, provide utility for those wanting to run an award program in amateur radio. Now it is finally time: Both webapps are finally open-source. You can find them on their respective github

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Why you should drop /P from your callsign while doing a FT8 POTA activation

Something new on this page: an opinion piece. Let's see. (Maybe) controversial take: If you do a FT8 or FT4 POTA activation, you should drop the "/P" suffix if your local regulations permit that. Let me explain why: Here in Germany, the suffix of "/P&

Fix: Fldigi on Apple Silicon Mac keeps asking for microphone permissions constantly

I got a new travel laptop, a used Macbook Air M1. It is running MacOS 14.5 now. I installed FLDigi as one does, using the official installers. All went well until I opened the programm and it prompted me for microphone access. I said sure, clicked on enable and

The DB4SCW-award software-suite gets larger: introducing Eventcoordinatorr

A while ago I introduced Hamawardz, a solution to self-service award creation by DB4SCW. I'm still ironing out bugs and missing features on that project - still considering it BETA. A full production release will be coming though, keep your eyes peeled for a post on this website.

Loop in WSJT-X when using non-standard callsigns - QSO not possible

Last year, while working FT8 with DL0NGCAT I came across some strange behaviour of FT8. If you use "long" event callsign (over 6 letters, like DL0NGCAT, DF4CEPALM), you will be called by other non-standard callsigns (like DB4SCW/P, DL0LOL/QRP, 9A/DO4SCW, or PD33ZDOGE). Problem: A QSO with

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Pi-Star - yellow DMR Net status and what to do about it

Last week, I updated and configured my travel-pistar-hotspot. During configuration, I discovered that I forgot my DMR Hotspot password. At first, this is no problem. Just enter the Brandmeister website, go to selfcare and set your new password. Unfortunately, after changing the password in Brandmeister AND in pistar, I got

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Creating hamawardz.app - a free software for ham radio award creation

In the beginning, a fellow OM asked me for my professional opinion, how much effort it would be to create a fully automated award checking and creation homepage. He had an idea to create an award program, which is still in development. I told him that, depending on the rules

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Linking a remote N1MM+, WSJT-X or JS8 to CQRLog

I keep my own complete log in a software called CQRLog. I love the ease of it, especially the ease of doing LOTW and eQSL, as well as the fact that it's based on a MySQL-Database, which opens up all kinds of fun for myself (as a developer)

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FLRIG precooking configurations

In my last post, we discussed CAT control for N1MM over FLRIG, with the main positive (at least for me) being the ability to have a "double tap to load flrig for IC7300" and a "double tap to load flrig for x6100" (for example) on the

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N1MM CAT control using FLRIG

First question: WHY? Why would you want to do that? Using flrig to control your radio has benefits: You can just point programs who support flrig to use flrig for CAT control and have flrig handle the connection via COM port to the radio. This also has the benefit that

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Anmeldung einer Clubstation oder eines Event-Callsigns - Teil 2

Anmeldung beim DARC Als nächstes stand für DLØLOL die Anmeldung beim DARC an, damit Versand von QSL-Karten über den DARC möglich ist. Dazu füllte ich einfach den entsprechenden Antrag beim DARC aus (am 19.10.2022 - https://www.darc.de/geschaeftsstelle/mitgliederverwaltung/) und dann begann das Warten. Dann, nach

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Anmeldung einer Clubstation oder eines Event-Callsigns - Teil 1

Einleitung - warum das Ganze?: Im Sommer 2022 fiel mir auf Band ein seltsames Callsign auf: VC3RIKROLL. Ich dachte mir so: Was ist das denn, ein "Rickroll" ist ein Meme meiner Generation. In einem Amateurfunkrufzeichen? Eine kurze Google-Suche verriet mir, warum: Das war ein Callsign des ersten "

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Callsign-Wechsel Teil 9: Umstellung DARC

Account 9: DARC Die Umstellung beim DARC ist sehr problemfrei. Schritt 1: Loggt euch beim DARC ein. Schritt 2: Füllt das nachfolgende Formular aus: Mitgliederverwaltung - DARCDARCDeutscher Amateur-Radio-Club e. V. Schritt 3: Wartet bis ihr Rückmeldung bekommt! Ich muss übrigens meine Bedenken aus Teil 1 zurücknehmen - in meiner Mail

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Callsign-Wechsel Teil 8: Umstellung APRS

Account 8: APRS Ich spreche hier natürlich von APRS via Internet - genauer gesagt über APRSDroid oder ähnliche Apps. Schritt 1: Ändert bei APRS euer Callsign. Daraufhin wird sich die App beschweren, dass ihr einen neuen Validierungscode anfordern müsst. Dies machen wir allerdings nicht. Diese Validierungscodes könnt ihr euch selbst

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Callsign-Wechsel Teil 7: Umstellung Echolink

Account 7: Echolink Schritt 1: Startet das Echolink-Programm auf eurem Windows-PC. Klickt dann auf "Tools" und "Setup" und auf der ersten Seite des Dialogs auf "Change Callsign". Den folgenden "Bist du sicher"-Dialog bestätigt ihr mit "yes". Schritt 2: Das

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Callsign-Wechsel Teil 6: Umstellung Winlink & VaraHF

Account 5: Winlink Winlink ist etwas seltsam... Die offiziellen Informationen sagen beim Callsign-Wechsel, man möge einfach einen neuen Account anlegen und "den alten intakt lassen". Es wird keine Möglichkeit geboten, den alten Account zu deaktivieren oder zu löschen, was mir zwar seltsam vorkommt - jedoch bleibt uns wenig