December greetings to EtherHams!
I’m writing this while sitting at a portable desk in my wife’s room. She had a big day yesterday, taking delivery of a custom-fitted wheelchair. Today, she’s resting after being moved in and out of the wheelchair several times yesterday.
Today is Saturday, December 6th. I’m listening to the W6EK Coffee Break net on AllStar node 51018 using my battery-powered ASL node 588412 and a Heil headset with a K-1 connector, all brought together through an AllScan UCI90. In my original build, I used a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. The build pictured below uses a Raspberry Pi 4 B.
By the way, if you’ve forgotten (like I had) what Raspberry Pi you put in the enclosure, you can find the RPi device name by issuing this at the command line:
cat /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/model
With the headset, I can listen without disturbing my wife. Since it is analog-to-digital audio over the internet, it is very clear. I’m amazed at how great it sounds.
In a wonderful moment of random synchronicity, I received an email this morning from James KD6PGK who noted he built an AllStar node with the UCI90, based on what I wrote in Random Wire 140. That newsletter included a parts list for my build. Details of his build are on his QRZ page. Congrats on a good build, James!
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