I have a renewed interest in packet radio. I have dusted off the TNC, purchased several TNC-Pis, was able to work with John Hansen to fix my TNC-X, and have been practicing connecting to my local ARES/RACES packet BBS. The next steps are to setup a packet BBS on a Raspberry Pi with multiple TNC-Pi…
Continue reading →Recently, the new Raspberry Pi 2 was released and I wrote briefly about it. If you don’t have one yet you can buy a couple from the my link to the Raspberry Pi 2 on Amazon. Now that you have a blazing fast Raspberry Pi 2, what can you do with it? Here are 10…
Continue reading →The new Raspberry Pi 2 came out with much fanfare. Up until now, finding a low cost desktop-class embedded PC was difficult. The original Raspberry Pi 1 Model B had a followup B+ model that did add some improvements, but this Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is significantly faster. Six times faster! Oh, and it’s…
Continue reading →Never a better way to introduce this great new KK6NHN blog than to talk about what makes amateur radio so great. I have a lot of thoughts on the subject, and even though I am a very recently licensed operator I have been a radio enthusiast since I was about 10 years old. But nothing quite sums…
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