@g7eix that will be an awesome machine
i got 32gb of ram and 512GB SSD on my new PC, current PC only has 256gb SSD and still room on itso didn't see point of going to a 1TB SSD, 32GB as i could and i would rather more ram as you never now software requirements as it evolves or new modes come out
and i saved £110 due to no MS tax, and the 16>32GB ram upgrade was only £70 so no brainer for me
@g7eix typo fixed, :)
i5 NUC should do well, 8GB or more ram even better
my new lenovo PC should arring in about a week, then i will update on the real build
on my Linux journey, one interesting thing
TimeSync is not an issue, on the time.is website i have yet to see it say anything other than "Exact"
my win10 pc used to lose 0.5-1 second a day and i would need to resync time several times a week
which don't sound a lot, but in radio digital modes you have to be within 1.5 seconds of the station you are working
@ON4CDJ i tried VarAC and didn't like the way it works so binned it, i so no real improvement over JS8Call
@ON4CDJ added JWX to the page for WEFax
so work in progress, building a page on my QSL.net site, about my journey to linux to replace my aging win10 PC (appropriated from daughter sometime ago after she was in 6th form and upgraded with a SSD 6 years ago)
got links to all win10 and linux apps
https://www.qsl.net/m0pwx/Setting%20up%20Linux%20Mint%20for%20radio.htm
@womble @DL2EJF it was pulse, it was the output type had to be one of the analogue options, why it had changed i am not sure, but for the 991a i could only get the output to be analogue, (the G90 had an option for output and input as analogue) and the the 991a the input ended up setting it as the default device then bot radios would rx and tx :)
@DL2EJF the input from the 991a works fine, but no output to allow TX
checked all the pulse audio setting, checked the WSJT-x audio settings, tried going back to alsa as well :(
and i broke WSJT-x audio :(
uninstall / re-install WSJT-x and reboot, didn't work :(
@croyle its a new SD card image as it is now on bookworm
@croyle the screen shot definitely says 10.1 (if you look at the one which is white with blue bar at top
it supports the latest rasbian bookworm OS as well
just updated the firmware on my Pi-Aware ADSB receiver to version 10.1
changes etc on forum thread https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/bookworm-piaware-10-sd-card-images-now-available-for-download/97416
shack reconfiguration is nearly complete
shelf back on wall with much heavier duty brackets, so no danger of the brackets failing again
new USB cables as the spares i had were low quality and losing connectivity between radio and linux machine
been back on air tonight on FT8 so now got to wait for my new laptop to arrive from Lenovo in china
managed to get QSSTV working and recieve a number of images on 20m last night :
apparently the S band transceiver was failing, thats the one for command and control so sort of makes sense, but if they can send it to a parking / graveyard orbit, could they not de-orbit it?
probably a simple answer as to why not, but it does seem counter intuitive
@electragician have a look at https://heavens-above.com/
if you put you position in and under "10 day pass predictions" select the ISS
then click the "all passes" button you will get a list of ISS passes
tune your SDR to 437.800mhz FM
and when the iss passes over you should hear some hams using the crossband relay on it
@scott the awards are fun as well, if you like awards look at qrz as well
@M0KHR thats cheating, key the rig without need to talk as no shouty interface on a curly lead :)
