Right, well I've never seen a microscope mount, so again, I'll have to research.

I shall investigate. Many thanks. Don't have a lot to do with astronomy so I'll have to do a bit of research.

Mine just turned up on the doorstep today, and I wasted no time powering down the naked Raspberry Pi 4 and installing it in the new case. I'm a little concerned about the number of screws: Long term I

I guess it depends on what you're used to. Compared to gVim, VS Code is _very_ heavy. I use gVim for pretty much everything… C, C++, Assembly language, Python, JavaScript/NodeJS… etc. Even Emacs (Eigh

Hi all, The other day I was in the supermarket, in the battery isle, and remembered I still hadn't bought an RTC battery for the DRAWS board I have. So, phone in one hand, I try looking around on the

Even harder on a bicycle… In my situation, it'll be mounted beside my FT-857D which is inside a 44L motorcycle plastic top-box. I do sometimes run 100W on SSB on the 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, 10m and 6m ban

If you're talking commercial-band stuff, then yes, encryption? Sure, knock yourself out. Amateur bands? Well, that differs. Here in Australia, it is permitted for emergency communications and in EMCOM

None of them, there's a separate port on the DRAWS that gives you a TTL-level UART serial port. THAT, is what you want for doing CAT. Or you provide a separate cable hooked up via USB. I'll ultimately

Heh, I guess it's all relative. :-) I'm used to a minimal image that basically just gets the machine booted with all the hardware usable. I suppose in UDRC/DRAWS terms, that'd be the necessary drivers

I've seen it crawl under Linux too. I was at work, so 50Mbps microwave link for Internet. Workstation and border router are both Linux (Gentoo on the workstation, Ubuntu on the border router), an inte

You might run afoul of one instance of Direwolf opening the ALSA device for the sound card and locking out the second instance unless you do some trickery in the ALSA configuration files to present th

Well, I've got mine just sitting bare at the moment, haven't done a lot other than tested receive with the board due to lack of time. My plan is to throw it into the top-box on a bicycle, it'll be int

#draws

Well, I tried it at first with my FT-897D, got no audio, then tried switching to an Icom IC-706MkIIG… still no joy. I was using arecord/aplay and netcat for testing. I have a Pi 3 with a UDRC-II board

The software I plan to use requires the SQL signal to key up PTT in a VoIP application. As stated in my original email: In short, I'll be doing FM and SSB voice via the DRAWS board. I'll have a look a

How do I read the state of the SQL pin if it's open-circuit?

Hi all, The DRAWS board arrived yesterday evening, and today I picked up a new Raspberry Pi 3 to connect it… so far things seem to be working but I'm yet to hook up a radio. Now, with the predecessor

Well, got it down, and now I see why it's 2.6GB in size… it's a full-blown desktop image. I usually like to start with a minimal image and add what I need rather than starting with a big image and hav

Hi all, Is there a mirror of the Compass Linux for the new DRAWS board? At the moment I'm downloading the "draws_beta13.zip" image off of nwdig.net. The Internet connection at my workplace is a 50Mbps

Hi all, Silly thought just occurred to me… one sore point with the Raspberry Pi is that the device provides no audio I/O apart from the PWM audio output. Now, the UDRC/DRAWS is a big improvement on th

WINE doesn't magically make a ARM CPU execute Intel 386 machine code.