These are increasingly important for hams who live in antenna restricted areas or older hams living in retirement centres. There are also club stations and commercially available remote stations you can pay to use. The other is where you establish another station at a different location and operate it remotely. One is where you remote your home station so you can operate it away from home. Basically there are three kinds of these remotes. One of the greatest and most exciting recent developments is the building and programming of remote amateur radio stations, controlled over the internet. You can also learn some programming working with this board. Books are available on amateur radio projects using this board and the internet has a lot of others, just google to see. Then we have the Arduino microcontroller board with a host of amateur radio projects you can easily build and program. With the sun-spot cycle in decline this mode will become increasingly popular. Much has been written about FT8 recently but all that is required is a computer with a sound card interface to a ham radio transceiver. One of these, FT8 mode, has become extremely popular almost overnight. For some time amateurs have been building equipment around VHF radios and GPS receivers for this purpose but recently the major radio amateur equipment companies have offered radios with this application built in.Ĭomputer digital modes have been around for quite a while but recently WSJT-X with its array of new weak signal modes has been developed by radio amateur PHDs at Princeton University physics department, and offered free to the amateur community. This is a lot of fun but also a safety measure for amateurs who routinely travel in wilderness areas, such as repeater technicians.

Imagine having your mobile location tracked on a map on the internet. Most repeater systems have a standalone IRLP node where, as long as the internet is up, you can talk to hams around the world through your local repeater.Īnother fairly recent addition is APRS-GPS tracking. Some have been around for a while but are just now seeing usage peaking way up. So many new things are happening all at the same time. This is due to the successful merging of radio with computer technology (including internet). We are now in one of the most exciting, if not the most exciting, eras in amateur radio. AnyTone AT-578UVIII Plus Mobile DMR radio

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