News

With the release of the Raspberry Pi 4 comes a new release of Raspbian, "Buster". We have successfully updated our code to run on Buster and can now support the Raspberry Pi 4.

Our first prototype PCB all soldered and ready for testing.

Today the Barrie Amateur Radio Club held it's annual hamfest. We used this opportunity to test the Weather Station and APRS beaconing.

Today we discovered free software to create a PCB layout. We're working on designing our own radio interface board for the Raspberry Pi and any radio.

Acurite has released a temperature and humidity sensor with lightning detection.

I have successfully tested the PTT from Direwolf using the GPIO pins on the raspberry pi. This removes the need for a VOX circuit and the associated problems.

In our search for alternatives to the Raspberry Pi we tested the Banana Pi M2 Berry

We have successfully sent a APRS message packet over RF and was received and decoded by Gqrx.

We have basic weather graphs working in the QRUQSP Manager.