MicroHAMS February 16, 2016

Participants

Mark

Amy

Dean

Scott H

Mike

Rick

Kenny

Peter

Javier

Phil

Dennis

Dave W.

Jeffrey

Don

Michael

Tim

Events

Ham fairs list by Lynn N7CFO:

http://www.n7cfo.com/amradio/hf/hf.htm

March 5th – Mike and Key Hamfest Saturday in Puyallup, WA

March 19th – MicroHAMS Digital Conference

Additional fun item at MHDC:

The Icom IC-7300 “SDR” might make an appearance. Prototype was shown at Orlando.

Speakers

Peter K4PNG

Report of First SDR-SIG Meeting

21 people attended

HDSDR presentation

SDR dongle

SDR Console demo

Next meeting, Tuesday, March 29th, 6pm at Building 27

Kenny KU7M

Buster AMBESERVER

History

Robin AA4RC built D-Plus and a backdoor

DV-Dongle / DVAP

G4KLX built DSTARRepeater and ircDDBGateway

It lets you access D-STAR reflectors

NWDigital

AMBE CODEC for digital voice

UDRX-440 needs AMBE

ThumbDV

PiDV

Buster is a Mac application by:

NH6Z, Jeremy McDermond

From <http://www.nh6z.net/Amatuer_Radio_Station_NH6Z/About_Me.html>

Remote access to the AMBE service was desired and the AMBE server was born.

G4KLX and K7VE

Buster + Raspberry Pi + AMBE 30000R by NWDigital

Buster is Open Source.

Kenny did a super cool demo on a Mac.

FYI about D-STAR reflectors

• Reflector 1C is general first contacts
• Reflector 35C is Seattle area
• Dstarinfo.com tells what intended uses of reflectors are.