Got my Home Assistant Yellow kit, which of course I ordered before I realised it’s basically impossible to get Raspberry Pi compute modules.

Still, will eventually be fun! Details at https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2021/09/13/home-assistant-yellow/

The Maverick-603 is live on crowd supply and looks pretty interesting.

The first affordable, FT8 receiver with an open source RF chip designed and fabricated using open source chip tools

I’m looking forward to seeing more details in further updates, there’s not a lot about their custom chip yet.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiostack/maverick-603

Great to see such a big influx of users!

I saw the site mentioned on Amateur Radio Weekly https://hamweekly.com/archive/issues/amateur-radio-weekly-issue-259.html and wondered what the effect might be :alex_grin:

This “FT8 receiver with an RF chip designed using open source chip tools and fabrication” sounds interesting: https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiostack/maverick-603

#ft8 #hamradio

📢 WSJT-X 2.6.0-rc4 was released on 2022-09-07 and provides further improvements to Echo

mode, a new File menu item, and several bug fixes.

I looks like people are having a bit of trouble with some debs and there’s no macOS installer yet.

Release notes: https://physics.princeton.edu//pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt

Announcement: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37703744/

Downloads: https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html

#hamradio #wsjt

Update! my last toot should have said rc3, not 2. Blame the lack of sleep! Thanks @yvan for pointing this out.

📢 WSJT-X 2.6.0-rc2 was released on the 22nd with improvements to Echo mode and several bug fixes. This toot is late because my 👶 Ash was born on the 19th :alex_grin:

Release notes: https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt

Announcement: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37696766/

and downloads: https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html

Some people are reporting crashes, so maybe there will be another RC soon.

#hamradio #wsjt

📢 WSJT-X 2.6.0-rc2 was released last night with improvements and bug fixes.

Release notes: https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt

Announcement: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37683856/

and downloads: https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html

#hamradio #wsjt

📢 WSJT-X 2.6.0-rc1was released last night.

“WSJT-X 2.6.0 Release Candidate 1 introduces support for the ARRL

International Digital Contest; performance enhancements for FT8, Q65,

and EME Echo mode; new controls and options on the GUI; and several

bug fixes.”

Announcement: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37668555/

Release notes: https://physics.princeton.edu//pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt

Downloads: https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html

#hamradio #wsjt

Happy new year mastodonians!

📢 WSJT-X 2.5.4 was just released, with two new people stepping up to replace work done by the late G4WJS: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/37410894/

This looks like a small bug fix release to “Repair a defect that caused occasional crashes when in QSO with stations using nonstandard callsigns.”

URLs are unchanged:

🗒️ https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt

📁 https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html

#hamradio #wsjt