April 3rd, 2021
https://arsaward.com/
Announcing JS8Call as the winner of Amateur Radio Software Award
ARSA committee is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2nd annual Amateur Radio Software Award to Jordan Sherer, KN4CRD, and his project, JS8Call.
The award committee has considered numerous factors in choosing this year's winner, including the project's impact on furthering the interests of amateur radio, innovation, and community involvement.
JS8Call is a full-fledged weak-signal digital communication application for amateur radio operators. In the spirit of open-source, Jordan extended the popular FT8 protocol instead of reinventing the wheel. During the 5 years of development, JS8Call has become a new tool for ARES function and cultivated a community of radio enthusiasts for digital communications. Jordan's work on JS8Call provides important innovation to advance the art of radio in the digital field. JS8Call is licensed under GPLv3 and can be freely downloaded at http://js8call.com.
The ARSA committee is proud to present the 2021 Amateur Radio Software Award Certificate and an award grant of $300 to Jordan Sherer, the project owner and core contributor of the JS8Call application.
We are looking forward to next year's Amateur Radio Software Award. Input and nominations for future awards are welcome. Be sure to visit our website https://arsaward.com for further information about the award.
About the Award
The Amateur Radio Software Award is an annual international award for the recognition of software projects that enhance amateur radio. The award aims to promote amateur radio software development which adheres to the same spirit as amateur radio itself: innovative, free, and open.
Special Event Station
We are operating the special event stations K2A, K2R, and K2S from Friday, August 27th through Sunday, September 5th, 2021 to promote innovative, free, and open amateur radio software. During the event, we will honor the 2021 award recipient. As part of the special event, we encourage people to submit nominations for the 2022 Amateur Radio Software Award.
Award Committee
Claus Niesen, AE0S (since 2020)
Kun Lin, N7DMR (since 2020)
Rich Gordon, K0EB (since 2021)
For those running an Echolink proxy/relay farm or interested in doing so:
I have released a new version 1.2.4c of my Echolink proxy/relay software, which is now
available on my website https://pe1chl.nl/ as https://pe1chl.nl/Softw/elproxy.tar.gz
New in this version:
- fixes in the relay protocol by K1RFD (Echolink)
- changed the TCP queue management, now it is no longer required to tweak the
TCPQueueHighWater setting in the config file (setting can be deleted) and the
TCP send queue sizes in the system parameters (sysctl.conf)
- rewritten the use of select() to the Linux epoll(7) feature, should be more efficient
When you are running relays for Echolink, please update the software as it resolves
some issues for mobile users that were reported to K1RFD.
When running only proxies, the update is not that important unless you experience
the TCP queue issue described in the README file of version 1.2.3c and could not
completely eliminate it using TCPQueueHighWater.
73,
Rob PE1CHL
Hi everyone,
Since a lot of people do all kind of development work directed towards
the ampr and the 44 network, wouldn't it make sense to have some kind of
repository/version tracking for this work?
Of course, there is Github, as a public place to do this, but wouldn't
it be nice to have our own Git repository, which should be under ARDC
control, where we could track our stuff, from code development and
scripts, up to all the host and service lists?
This could even be a topic for the grants committee...
Costs are minimal, with only some effort towards the initial setup (Git
is essentially free, with maybe a small payed support in setup from
Atlassian if needed). Afterwards it is self-sustaining.
73s,
Marius, YO2LOJ
I dont know what is the status of this case but I am asking here if anyone had some factual information on this.
As we are using the frequency that are into the ISM band, We are also using device that are type accepted for that band.
Those device are used legally with encryption by normal lambda user. If we dont modify the device power and frequency would it be legal for ham to also encrypt the signal?
I understand that if we would use a higher power, different channel I would understand that we are now out of the ISM band rules.
Pierre
VE2PF
Hi there,
During UTC 0814-0816, 0820-0826, 0827-0834, 0843-0845, 0846-0849, 0934-0940, I was suffering ~600Mbps (peak ~900Mbps) DDoS attack on my 44net IP.
I shared the situation in a discussion group, and found another ham whose 44net IP is also been flooded during that time. So I am here to asking if the same attack happened on other 44net IPs.
73,
Soha Jin
Hello, 44net!
I've heard from some of you that you might interested in helping to
improve ARDC's website. We are currently seeking quotes from people who
might be able to do just that, along with some branding work.
Brief info is provided below. Please share with organizations you think
might be good fits.
Many thanks,
Rosy
//
ARDC is seeking quotes from organizations who can help us with the
following:
• Creation of a comprehensive style guide,
• Redesign of our website, ampr.org, along with migration to a new URL, and
• Refresh and possible redesign of our logo.
Please send in your proposal by April 31, 2021, and direct inquiries and
proposals to:
Rosy Wolfe, Executive Director
Amateur Radio Digital Communications
5663 Balboa Avenue, Suite 432
San Diego, CA 92111-2705 USA
https://www.ampr.org
contact(a)ampr.org
If you use bgp with vultr could you please share your bird.conf. I finally have 44.18.28.0/22 on my account and I thought I had bird.conf correct...... but bird dies immediately when I try to start it.
Eric
Af6ep
Sent using SMTP.
All,
In the spirit of what GitLab is supposed to be for, I've started a git repo for example OpenVPN configurations that people are using on 44Net. The intention is not to necessarily be a step-for-step guide (although that's always welcome) but to provide examples of what people are doing that work well. Anyone is welcome to become a contributor to the repo.
https://git.ampr.org/N8EI/openvpn-config-examples
I'm also planning on a routing configuration example and maybe a Wireguard example in the same spirit.
Jason
Hi to the group.
I am helping a group that want to start a fast speed wireless network in the 5.8ghz for the bakebone and 2.4 ghz/900 mhz for the local network and mesh.
they will annonce by BGP the subnet they were allowed. Of course they will use a DNS for many of the service they will have on the network.
They are wondering how will reverse DNS will sork and if it is possible to change/add the reverse dns names of the machine.
Thanks
Pierre
VE2PF
Chris,
I'm not sure if I have asked yet or not. But, can you grant me edit to the
Wiki?
I would like to start capturing some of these amazing details that we're
getting passed through the mailing list.
- How to setup Vultr
- Perhaps tracking some of the group Wants
- Gitlab
Thanks in advance.
--Ronnie
W0rdm
