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Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
I just downloaded the manual for the Leixen VV-898.Sorry, I would NEVER buy a radio where the manufacturer does put the basic pinouts in the manual.? There are only 4 connections available: Power,
By Rob Giuliano · #5583 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
Add my vote for the 2980. I have one and it's a tank, and definitely meets the definition of "battle-hardened (for emergency prep, ready to go, dependable)". I also use a couple of Leixen VV-898S for
By Jeff, NC6J · #5582 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
A couple of observations about the V71 from someone who owns one, me, and I'd buy another if it was available in the Land of Oz even though the price is high due to international exchange
By Ray Wells · #5581 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
Massive quantities of excellent Motorola Maxtrac and GM300 mobiles have been retired out of public agency use in the last couple of decades. If the public agencies that your EMCOM group works with are
By Dana Myers · #5580 ·
Re: Introduction
Patrick, In addition to David's comprehensive response, Jason (KM4ACK) has published a number of videos about using PAT. See https://www.youtube.com/c/KM4ACK/videos Ian VK1IAN
By VK1IAN · #5579 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
Actually, the FT8900 is quad band (10m FM, 6m FM, 2m FM, and 440 FM).? The FT8800 is the dual band (2m/440) version.? Unfortunately, Yaesu decided to replaced this type of radio with either the
By Rob Giuliano · #5578 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
Only speaking for NEW radios, I really like Kenwood radios as they are well made. The V71 is dual band, has the 6pin DATA jack on the back, offers the discriminator port for wide FSK data modes like
By David Ranch · #5577 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
*Yaesu 2980,* no fans or relays, rugged, cast-aluminum "george foreman grill".?? fully adjustable wattage.? affordable at $140. GTOWN, MNDN, AVALN digipeaters/gateways use this PiZero with Yaesu
By Craig, KM6LYW · #5576 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
I know when using VOX for digital (tried it with APRS) the volume settings can be very tricky. I used it successfully with breadboard Mobilinkd TNC with a bluetooth interface with my phone and cable
By John · #5575 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
A friend of mine uses as far as I know an EasyDigi with his Baofeng and that was also the way the government organization was thinking of going. I myself use a DINAH soundcard with a raspberry pi with
By John · #5574 ·
Re: Introduction
Hello Patrick, Direwolf is a packet TNC and APRS client but it doesn't have any Winlink functionality. You CAN integrate Direwolf with other Winlink tools though and here is a decent overview of
By David Ranch · #5573 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
A good radio and, while "end-of-life" it is still available and will last a long time after purchase. Thanks and 73, -Corky, AF4PM
By Corky · #5572 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
John, Have you seen it work?? I saw the following post from this group: /g/direwolf/topic/81548950#5064 They guy had a heck of a time and pointed out some serious concerns using
By Patrick Bouldin KM5L · #5571 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
Also end of life :-( [email protected]> wrote:
By Steve Stroh · #5570 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
Kenwood TM-V71A Pro: Easy to interface Kenwood quality Dual receive Con: More expensive than a Baofeng. Danny K5CG
By Danny K5CG · #5569 ·
Re: What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
The Baofeng should suffice, from a close contact I learned that even a government organization was going the Baofeng way to use with WinLink. Only problem with the Baofeng's is to make sure you don't
By John · #5568 ·
What are the proven and cost effective radios to use with Direwolf and Winlink?
Hi, our? ARES group is about to get moving on Winlink for EMCOM purposes - and, were WERE going to use: Baofeng, Direwolf, Raspberry Pi, but after hearing about several issues with Baofeng (and a
By Patrick Bouldin KM5L · #5567 ·
Re: Problems compiling Direwolf 1.7 on RPi OS10
Hello Roger, I'm not aware of anything in BPQ32 requiring a GUI per se. You could do things with multiple SSH session or get fancier with multi-terminal interfaces like screeen, tmux, etc. The
By David Ranch · #5565 ·
Re: Problems compiling Direwolf 1.7 on RPi OS10
Hey Ray, You're right.. this isn't a Raspberry Pi OS bug per se.. it's a Debian bug. A nasty one at that! I don't know of the Raspberry Pi Foundation builds all their own .deb packages for their
By David Ranch · #5564 ·
Re: Problems compiling Direwolf 1.7 on RPi OS10
No, it's a command line tool used as "git clone <address>" that fetches the remote data and expands it into directories under Direwolf, in this case, and the GUI environment isn't needed for
By Ray Wells · #5563 ·