My friend and fellow ham Stephen Downward VE9QLE has been hard at work developing hardware and software for a digital packet mode he is calling CATS, short for Communication and Telemetry System1. CATS aims to offer a similar functionality to the widely adopted but long-in-the-tooth Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS), though the CATS protocol is designed to take advantage of the substantial improvements in inexpensive, off-the-shelf RF and embedded computing hardware available in the present day....
Introduction
New Year’s Resolutions It’s the night of January 1st 2024, or at least that’s the day I woke up this morning. By the time this is published it’ll be after midnight. I suppose some introductions are in order; my name is Adrian Kaczmarczyk (I pronounce it “kaz-mar-zik”) and this is my personal blog. I intend to use it to post about technical concepts I think up and find clever or amusing....