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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UoSAT-Oscar-11

My first QSL card! OSCAR-11. This bird has been in space for 20 years. The offical birthday announcement states:

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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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speak_time, an IRLP Custom Script

Introduction to speak_time When I first started with IRLP I wrote a few custom scripts for my node. This script announces the local system time.

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speak_temperature, an IRLP Custom Script

Introduction to speak_temperature When I first started with IRLP I wrote a few custom scripts for my node. This script announces the temperature. The temperature is obtained via a Dallas DS1820 1-wire sensor attached to the nodes serial port. digitemp is used to read the sensor, a precompiled static digitemp binary has been included for

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cwid, an IRLP Custom Script

Introduction to cwid When I first started with IRLP I wrote a few custom scripts for my node. This script plays a CW ID on a regular basis. It uses playmidi and a midi file to id the repeater. The scripts default timing adheres to Canadian regulation. It ids at 20 minute intervals, but yields

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Trak Pak

The name TrakPak was derived from TinyTrak, a neat little GPS position encoder. This device elimiates the need for a dedicated full blown TNC to report one’s position from a GPS via APRS. The TinyTrak is a product of Byon Garrabrant, N6BG.

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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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