Wayne Holmes @cwh050@qoto.org

MOTOTRBO Radio Management Setup Guide 📖 https://bit.ly/3QpBbwJ

IMPRES Battery Fleet Management: Not Connected to Database https://bit.ly/3FsxVeU

HP laptop with Windows 10: Wi-Fi keeps on turning off whenever a radio (or ethernet) is connected 😡 https://bit.ly/3rDpASu

Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.

- G. Michael Hopf.

I am unable to read a Motorola ION using Radio Management https://bit.ly/3EUc53I

Motorola Radio on a Tait Tier 3 network https://bit.ly/3sTamsy

Question about VLAN config in Capacity Plus single site https://bit.ly/3sO5Pb5

I help a fair bit with designing radio communications systems. What has become apparent to me over the last year or so, is that:

1) Cyber Security must become an intergral part of the overall system design process.

2) Some of the people I help with this work make Cyber Security the last step - more often than not, an afterthought.

Your thoughts?

#cybersecurity #radiocommunications

A split in half Capacity Plus site drops talkgroup calls after 3-5 seconds 😕 https://bit.ly/48dudTI

When trying to install another vendor’s programming software, I get a #bsod. Let’s see if I can fix it…while in between other stuff.

@F4JWJ Whoever I work will certainly get double points 😜

So it turns out that #hamradio grid square JO40BF and JO40BG pass right through my garden. It'd be fun if I was into into doing contests!

HKVN4054A https://bit.ly/3YToi1A

@freemo many years ago, when I was doing repairs, we sometimes had to add wire jumpers onto boards (back in the day when a lot of glue logic was used and that was a way to fix bugs). For this we had to use teflon coated ~28AWG stranded wire and used this tool for stripping https://www.weller-tools.com/eu/gb/precision-tools/products/tweezers/29w30. You would put the wire in the jaws and spin the tweezers around until it pierced the insulation then pulled. I would not use this tool for anything else though ...

Some questions are not easy to answer satisfactorily. https://bit.ly/3sfd4bw

According to a user survey on my Blog, 30% of respondents intend to retire in 10 years. From the companies they work at, only 40% have an apprenticeship program. According to the article, in Germany only 3% of school leavers choose to study electrical engineering. Only a few Universities in Germany offer a curriculum that if sufficiently RF orientated. All in all, this means that there are fewer entrants than veterans.

@freemo the times I've stripped thin wires only to discover I've taken most (sometimes all) of the strands off together with the insulation.

When at your next #hamradio meet, count how many teenagers there are (voluntarily)? Ask a few people if they've built any of their equipment? If you have teenage children, bring them with and ask their opinion. See my point about connecting with the target market?

A collaboration between the DARC and VDE is the lead article in the September edition of CQDL. The intention is to drive interest in electrical engineering amongst the youth by using #hamradio. I think the idea is great but am worried about the practicalities. I fear that there is a huge disconnect between their target market and their image.