UK licenced since 1985, took a break from 1989 to 2022. Love vintage tech, CP/M & Z80.
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| Call sign | G1LRO |
| Location | Cheltenham UK |
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The V2.2 Universal Radio Controller will now ship with a prototyping area giving access to key signal and control lines.
I'm working on shareable documentation for the 12-pin header to enable innovation.
The Universal Radio Controller is fairly unique in that it can do TX/TX/PTT and programming for a Baofeng (and other two-pin radios) without needing to unplug any wires. The Baofeng radios traditionally lacked any type of Computer Aided Transceiver (CAT) capability, but the Universal Controller can drive the programming capability of the radio at
The second version of the Universal Radio Controllers evolves several features of its predecessor and has additional Computer Aided Transceiver (CAT) capabilities. Other than the new CAT feature, the notable changes from the V1 edition are: Hardware relay for PTT for maximum versatility and reliability. TX audio isolation during receive (the mic line has
I was super proud to have my Universal Radio Controller featured in some depth on the Ham Radio Workbench podcast this week. Many thanks to @smitty for the mention!
Listen here: https://g1lro.uk/?p=132
This week's HRWB podcast had a great mention for the Universal Radio Controller and in particular its unique OHIS capabilities, USB connected sound card and transceiver PTT controls. George KJ6VU described the URC as "pretty universally useful" You can listen to the entire podcast at https://www.hamradioworkbench.com/podcast - well worth subscribing to. Many thanks to Mark
@m0lte The sound card has full 48k sampling rate so should work fine with 9k6 packet. Also there are no isolation transformers which i see can cause issues at the higher frequencies.
The big problem with were I live and testing this stuff is that I am out of range of all packet repeaters, i get a few noisy stations on APRS, but not readable. I have to set up my own second station to test this stuff :)