Christopher M0YNG @M0YNG@mastodon.radio

It was suggested I post, and pin, a toot with information about what it costs to run this instance.
I like this, I want to be transparent, and I think it's important that the community have trust and confidence in me, and the hosting.

Currently the costs looks like this:

* £112.50 a year for a VPS
* €25.00 a year for the domain name

All media (avatars, etc.) are sotred on the server, we use 20G of 40G so far.

More details (and optional donations) at
https://liberapay.com/M0YNG

#instanceAdmin

A helpful guide on getting started with Mastodon.
https://kevq.uk/getting-started-with-mastodon/

This is a carrot flower.

I didn't pull them all up last year, and these have grown. Some are almost 2m tall.

I guess I should get lots of seeds this way!

#garden #carrot

I wonder. Does anyone know how to get the recordings OFF the AnyTone 878?

It's quite interesting, and a little bit useful, but almost completely pointless if you can only listen to them on the radio itself.

#dmr

Exciting to hear JA1BBX on the world wide dmr channel.

ALESTORM - Drink
https://youtu.be/f55CqLc6IR0

Metal pirates with violins!

Talking to Poland in my garden isn't usually this easy...

🇵🇱 🇬🇧

#dmr #amateurRadio @sp6mr

Direct #dmr contact with @sp6mr

I'm impressed by how easy this all is...

K3NYJ has just saved my sanity, this list of DMR call groups, combined with the actual number you need to dial to connect to it is the the magic I couldn't find elsewhere!

#dmr

https://k3nyj.blogspot.com/2019/05/talkgroup-lists-dmr-marc-and.html

Thank for all the replies on this toot!

Seems like it works more or less like I suspected.
Sadly I don't have any convenient land borders I can try it with nearby...

We have been updated to Mastodon v2.9.2!

Release Notes:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.9.0

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.9.1

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.9.2

Blog Post:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/mastodon-2.9/

Please let me know if you have any issues

#instanceAdmin

I have a question!

When I travel to another CEPT country, I can operate using a reciprocal license, e.g. As DE/M0YNG OR EI/M0YNG

How does this apply to #DMR? do I need to register a new ID?

What about #aprs? Do I need to change my callsign? Will things like aprs.fi understand it's still/also me?

Would a message to M0YNG-5 also get delivered to EI/M0YNG-5?
Would anyone watching me cross a border see me stop and a new thing appear? Or one thing carry on?

Loading all 136k+ dmr IDs takes time...

General reminder for users of mastodon.radio

If you spot someone being a dick, please report them.

I will take action, starting with sending a message to kicking them off our server.

If they are on another server, I will consider the suitability of silencing or blocking the server/instance as appropriate.

#instanceAdmin

Hmm. Parrot service seems to work?

Anyone around on dmr I can try and talk to?

#amateurRadio #dmr

My new radio arrived!
It's an AnyTone AT-D878UV

But I can't work out how to get it working on dmr...

Does anyone have a code plug for the UK?

I spent too much...

Have ordered a AnyTone AT-D878UV.
But also a Pi Zero W, GPS module, buck converter, usb soundcard, extended battery for UV5R, NA771 aerials, fist mics, switches, and an MMDVM module.

Soon I will have all the radios!

Plan is to try and make a Pi Powered APRS "module" to attach to a spare UV5R.

But I also wanted a "known good" aprs handheld.

But it also does DMR ... so obviously a hotspot is needed...
Wonder if I can put the MMDVM onto the Pi that is doing APRS/packet...

Raspberry Pi Zero W.

No lights, CPU chip get's VERY hot, very quickly.

I think I was right when I wrote "DEAD" on the back.

Oh well, guess this project will need to wait a bit longer before I can start it.