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Latest node map for the NoVa Meshtastic Mesh running on Long Fast Slot 9 with 7 hops limit and several 0-cost hop Routers in the Northern Virginia area.

VaQP APRS Tracker for 2026

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The 2026 VaQP APRS Tracker will be available again this year and is now live! For the map view and text table view useful for home users to watch and track stations see: https://k1ra.us/vaqp-aprs/ This system is in support of tracking radio stations in motion over the March 21-22 weekend and participating in the Virginia […]

PSKreporter Spotter Stats

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I’ve participated in contributing real-time FT8, FT4, JS8, WSPR & CW spots from 630m-6m since about 2018 using several different simultaneous multi-band, multi-mode SDR spotting systems. These have been built on various SDR hardware including the Redpitaya, KiwiSDR, RaspSDR and more recently RX-888. SDR software has included CW Skimmer + CWSL + CWSL_Digi, DigiSkimmer, SparkSDR […]

UberSDR @ K1RA / KW4VA

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I’ve been playing with KA9Q-Radio SDR software over the past year, which runs on Linux and supports the wideband RX-888 mkii SDR hardware. Recently M9PSY wrote a phenomenal system around that software titled UberSDR. This is both a phenomenal web based SDR receiver, capable of supporting unlimited users and unlimited bandwidth coverage / listening between […]