Due to recent events, the 2020 ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), originally planned for Charlotte, North Carolina, will be moved to an online virtual conference on the same dates as originally planned, September 11-13, 2020. The details of the Virtual DCC will be announced in the coming months as details and plans are finalized. We plan to hold…
New TICC Firmware Available
John Ackermann, N8UR, just released an update to the Arduino firmware for the TICC. The new version is 20200412.1. It, along with all the TICC source code and documentation, is available at: https://github.com/TAPR/TICC. In addition to a few bug fixes and cleanups, there are a couple of more noticeable changes that are discussed in the LATEST_CHANGES.txt file. One item changes…
Login/Membership Problems Fixed
The problems related to the website’s login and membership functions have been fixed.
TAPR 30m WSPR Board Comment
I saw your article on the RPi WSPR boards. I have been using a 30m board since Dayton as my only WSPR activity.Here is a screen shot of a 12 hour report in February, noon to midnight on 2-19-2020 running as recommend and I use a inverted Delta loop as an antenna.These boards really work well even in a sun…
Winter 2020 PSR Available
The Winter 2020 issue of TAPR’s Packet Status Register is now available.
DCC Proceedings Now Online
By Stana Horzepa, WA1LOU – Proceedings from the last four ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conferences (DCCs 2016-2019) are now online on the new TAPR website. This is a double treat because the last two conference proceedings have never been online before. So enjoy some excellent technical writing and whet your appetite for the 2020 edition of the DCC in…
Old to New
By Stana Horzepa, WA1LOU – As TAPR transitions from our old website to our new website, you may encounter broken links to the old website, for example, links embedded in our newsletter, PSR. All is not lost. Simply substitute www.tapr.org with web.tapr.org in the URL of the broken link. If you encounter any other problems with the new website, please click on the Contact menu…
Introducing the TAPR TangerineSDR
By Scotty Cowling, WA2DFI – TangerineSDR’s roots extend back to the 2018 ARRL/TAPR DCC in Albuquerque, NM. At that conference, the HamSCI[1] community asked for TAPR’s help in developing a Software Defined Radio that they could use to collect ionospheric and other data. This radio, dubbed the Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS), needed particular capabilities, such as very accurate time-stamping…
WSPR on 20, 30 and 40 Meters
TAPR now offers its popular Raspberry Pi QRP TX Shield for WSPR in three versions: 20, 30 and 40 meters!
TAPR’s packetRadio
By Stana Horzepa, WA1LOU – The TAPR booth at the 1989 Dayton Hamvention was buzzing with the unveiling of a number of new packet-radio products including prototypes of the TAPR “packetRADIO.”