Projects & Posts
You Know What Your Problem Is? The ARRL Band Plan Chart
Sal W6SAL
2025-12-17
You Know What Your Problem Is? The ARRL Band Plan Chart Look, I love ham radio. I really do. There’s...
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MeshCore Room Servers (continued): Your Off-Grid Message Hub When Everything Else Goes Dark
Sal W6SAL
2025-12-08
Let me paint you a picture. It’s 3:47 AM, and you’re jolted awake by the unmistakable rolling motion that every...
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An Elegant Engineering Solution: N6MRO's Four-Band Octagon Dipole
Sal W6SAL
2025-11-24
You know what I love? When someone takes a complex problem and solves it with elegant simplicity. Robert, N6MRO, did...
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MeshCore Room Servers: The Missing Piece in Off-Grid Mesh Communications
Sal W6SAL
2025-11-19
You know what’s always fascinated me about building communication systems? It’s not just making messages go from point A to...
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Building a MeshCore MQTT Bridge: A Journey into Radio Packets and tiny Raspberry Pis
Sal W6SAL
2025-11-12
Introduction: Why Would Anyone Do This? So you’ve decided to join the ranks of the enlightened few who run MeshCore...
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MagSafe Node - Officially BRILLIANT
Sal W6SAL
2025-11-04
Robert N6MRO Has Officially Lost His Mind—And Built Something BRILLIANT in the Process You know what was missing from mesh...
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MeshCore vs Meshtastic: A Comprehensive Analysis (Or: Why One Actually Works When You NEED It To Work)
Sal W6SAL
2025-11-03
Let Me Tell You Something… You know what REALLY grinds my gears? And I mean REALLY makes me want to...
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The Complete Guide to APRS Messaging: Because Sometimes You Actually Need to Talk to People
Sal W6SAL
2025-02-21
Introduction: Welcome to 1980s Technology That Still Works Better Than Your Cell Phone Look, here’s the thing about APRS messaging...
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Repeaters vs. Simplex - The Great Ham Radio Infrastructure Debate
Sal W6SAL
2024-12-08
You know what’s fascinating about amateur radio operators? We’re the only people on Earth who get genuinely excited about whether...
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