Here is my latest video. This time, I show how I operate APRS and packet radio while portable. In a future video, I will also demonstrate various digital modes on HF using my outdoor setup.

https://youtu.be/4EDlDRkozkw

#hamradio #amateurradio #amateurfunk #packetradio #ax25 #aprs

Netsuite:

> Your request for Long Service Leave for the period 2/6/2026 - 9/6/2026 has been approved.
> Your request for Long Service Leave for the period 10/6/2026 - 6/7/2026 has been approved.

Those two emails are poetry to my ears. Why two blocks? I screwed up and meant to select a date in July for the first one… and couldn't edit it, so I just submitted a second one starting where the previous one finished.

Two things for this break:

- #BrisbaneWICEN work, in particular in relation to the #AX25 stack I've written
- Getting some kilometres up on the bicycle

#LongServiceLeave

I've published OpenBCM v2.0.3 to fix a ugly bug. 🙂

https://github.com/andreaspeters/openBCM

#packetradio #ax25 #bbs

Silly question for those who muck around with the cheaper amateur transceivers. What sets out there are capable of packet radio (both classical 1200baud Bell203 and 9600baud G3RUH), dual-band and can do ≥20W?

I've looked around, and so far the winner seems to be the Yaesu FTM-150R; AU$500 through a local supplier. A little overkill, but workable.

I was thinking something like a Chinese clone of the FT-7900R if such a thing existed. Dual-band, but single watch, decent power, and mini-DIN 6 data jack.

eBay list lots of Anytones and other Chinese brands, but none of them I've looked at to date, seem to have a data port for doing packet radio, and I really don't want to go through the microphone circuit for that even though 1200-baud packet is quite forgiving. (9600 baud is not!)

#AmateurRadio #PacketRadio #AX25

In my newest slightly chaotic video, I briefly show how to use FlexPacket with TFKISS and Bluetooth.

https://youtu.be/VDzUPQ77V4c

#packetradio #hamradio #amateurradio #linux #opensource #ax25

I've added Bluetooth support to the decades old tfkiss software. 🥳

https://github.com/andreaspeters/tfkiss

#hamradio #amateurradio #opensource #linux #ax25 #packetradio

Today a Video about my PacketRadio Software called "FlexPacket".

Sorry @scott, still no PR sound. 😅 It's a 9k6 connection. But in the next PR Video, I will show my APRS Software and then you will also get the great sound of 1k2 PacketRadio. 😃

https://youtu.be/0q2f3kBCAXU

#hamradio #packetradio #linux #ax25 #amateurradio

Well… today was quite a wet and rainy day. Not a lot of activity here other than blowing the dust off an AX.25 stack I've been working on for a little while. This is written in pure Python and implements both AX.25 and APRS standards, including connected mode. It's shipped as a library to include in your Python (asyncio) applications.

https://codeberg.org/sjlongland/aioax25/
https://github.com/sjlongland/aioax25/

I'll probably do a release soon, as I've spent the day refining the API a bit and cleaning up the unit tests. I've finally now got 100% code coverage on this and it's being tested on Python 3.9-3.14.

One thing I'm considering is some sort of stream socket protocol (TCP, AF_UNIX and maybe websocket) that can be used to expose the functions of the stack to a separate program. Something like the AGWPE protocol in concept — but different as I don't want any legal trouble. I also think the AGWPE protocol is a bit limiting.

#AmateurRadio #PacketRadio #AX25 #APRS #Python