Microchip PIC Clock

It was February of 1998 when I first put my eye on the Microchip PIC microcontroller product line. It all started many years earlier with a Commodore C-64, followed by homebrew 6502 hardware projects and a fair bit of assembler programming on the 6502. Maybe some day I will find those notes if they still

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IRLP Now

… is about the VA3SLT amateur radio repeater in Sioux Lookout. This provides access to IRLP, Echolink and APRS for Sioux Lookout radio amateurs.

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IRLP Embedded

This is the second IRLP node I created. The hardware for this node consisted of a Advantech PCM-4823L single board computer (SBC). This board was powered by an AMD 5×86 processor running at a blazing 133MHz. Most common PC interfaces were included, the notable exception was the lack of video support. The SIMM memory slot

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IRLP Then

This is the first IRLP (Internet Radio Linking Project) node I built. The repeater frequency is 147.315 MHz, +600 kHz Offset. A tone of 192.8 Hz was required to access the repeater. The repeater callsign was VA3SLT and the IRLP node ID was 259.

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A Wireless Router Story

Things to do with a wireless router when it is not routing packets!

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