Disclaimer: This updated review focuses on the iOS app, not the Android app, which has a different set of features. About two months ago I did a review on the Vero Telecom VR-N7500 APRS radio. You can read my initial review here: I was quite critical of the radio, but not because I don’t like …
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Today the iOS BS HT app for the Vero Telecom VR-N7500 and VR-N75 radio has been released by the software developers on the Apple Store with all the work we’ve been doing over the last month to get APRS Messaging working, and a few other fixes. It seems after my review of the radio and …
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tldr: Not a terrible radio, but not particularly great either. With a little app work it could be exceptional, but the manufacturer doesn’t want to spend the time or effort. Android has better functionality than iOS – but I’m an iOS user. Background: I have been looking for a half decent APRS Radio for my …
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A concept! One of the things I wanted to do when I got my APRS stuff setup was self SPOT my WWFF activations to parksnpeaks.org via APRS. I spent some time looking into this and basically, to PNP, it couldn’t be done. I started looking at SPOTS for other systems and there are various other …
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Something I’ve been wanting to muck around with since I got back into the hobby is APRS. I used to have a Kenwood 710 previously, and honestly, I should have hung onto it. When I first moved to NSW back in 2015 I figured I wouldn’t be doing any HAM radio again, so I got …
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This is not the first time I’ve had a FT818ND – ok, maybe it is, my first one was an FT-817ND, but effectively, they’re the same. This second time around I decided that when I got this radio I wanted to do it right, and do all the mods I wanted to do the first …
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I’ve been a little quiet over the last month or two. Works been really busy, life’s been busy so I’ve had a re-visit to this park on the cards for a while, it just hasn’t happened until today. Since last activating this park I have made a couple more mods to the radio (FT-818ND), most …
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Ever since I bought my FT-818ND I wasn’t really happy with the internal battery. Although the FT-818ND came with a larger battery (and a better charging circuit to handle the bigger battery) it still wasn’t really up to scratch. I found that when out portable it’s useable life was really only about 1.5 hours and …
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Today I went out to do another VKFF activation, as was the case last time, lessons were learned (re-learned?) and added a list of things to check/do before the next one. Packing the gear into the car this morning I threw an Alert up last night using the ParknPeaks iOS app version 3 beta (Shoutout …
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I’ve re-released my FT-817/818 iPad/iPhone/Mac interface cable and will be using these on park and summit activations in the near future. The cable has been confirmed as working with the FT-817/818/857 & 897 – in theory it should work with any Yaesu radio with the 6 pin mini-din data connector. Let’s revive PSK-31 & SSTV …
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