UIDIGI

Still very busy with work at the moment, but I was trying to get my APRS digi up an running at home again to see if I can fill in some of the holes left by the demise of GB2GP.

The rising cost of electricity means that I don’t want to run a PC all day just to perform the digipeater duties (I calculated the cost as 50p for 24 hours) as there are already three good I-gates in 2E0RNT, M0TEC and MB7UFF already.

I have been looking at using UIDIGI for some time and fortunately I got a prom blown by N1VG at Argent Data systems – the man who makes the open trackers. I finally got around to putting up a low co-linear in the garden last night and inserting a UIDIGI prom into my tiny 2.  I had to reconfigure this a few times to get things going, but I think everything is now OK and I am now acting as a fill in digipeater again for North London. The antenna needs to go on the roof, to be really effective, but I have been saying that for months!