W9CR:About

Greetings

This wiki is mostly a collection of projects I've worked on which is interesting to me. Others are free to add to it.

I help hams

I do help hams with various things from time to time. Things I've been known to help with:

• SMD rework
• repair of radios
• filter tuning on a VNA
• debugging and developing free software
• hacking on radios at lower levels
• general radio advice
• anything else I find fun

Note I don't/won't charge for this. You likely can't afford me and this is just for fun.

You want me to help align a repeater or duplexer or something for a ham site? Cool, bring it to my house (AFTER PERMISSION AND SCHEDULING WITH ME) and we'll work on it together in my lab.

Things I won't do:

• work on your stuff alone. You don't drop it off and fuck off to the bar, the intention is you help and learn something.
• come to you
• give any warranty
• work on repeaters which are uncoordinated
• work for assholes

How to be a bad ham

People ask all the time why I won't take money or sell things to hams. Below is yet another example of someone who contacted me for help with Waris radios and I tried to help. He didn't make a backup and used a part of the waris.py software which was untested, corrupting his codeplug. When I told him how to fix it, he then said he'd just take it up with the seller!

This means he just bought these, used unsupported software/experimented on them and then filed a eBay claim against the seller after he broke them!

Hosting for Hams, AKA Virtual Machine & VPN

I am willing to host a virtual machine for your ham radio project at no cost. I have a cluster of hypervisors colocated in Tampa, and can carve out a portion for your needs. I have a block of 44net IP space in use and your server can take advantage of this. IPv6 is provided as well, along with delegation or setting of reverse DNS.

All Services are best effort and subject to cancellation at any time I want to keep this going, and in the event something changes and I can no longer provide services, I will make every effort to inform you at least a month in advance. That said, hosting is at my pleasure, no guarantees.

Requirements for hosting

• You must be familiar with basic unix/Linux.
• OS will be Ubuntu Linux unless agreed to be different in advance
• SSH public key authentication only. No passwords.
• I have sudo on your box
• I will have it monitored in observium/librenms via SNMP/agent
• A firewall will be enabled at the hypervisor level, you should run one as well.
• Anything else deemed necessary.

Server provisioning

All servers will be:

• Linux
• 1 core
• 4gb ram
• 128gb disk
• dual stack IPv4/IPv6

I'm willing to review this on a case by case basis.

You will have remote console/power on the VM, however you must give me the IP space you wish to access the KVM from in advance. 44net vpn can be utilized for this, please inquire about getting setup on the vpn server.

44net VPN

I have a subnet of 44net space and run a VPN server in it. Should you want an IPSEC+XAUTH vpn connection into this space, I can provision this. Send me your information and callsign in an email and I'll set it up. You should know how to configure this in your client (shrewsoft/osx/cisco/etc).

If you want, we can setup a router to router connection via GRE/IPSEC and route a subnet (or your BGP network) via it as well. This is a bit more complex, but more flexible. If you want this, please email me and we can get it setup. I do require access to your router in this case.

How to contact me

Email me

How to get a reply from me

Please don't send am email like a normal ham.

• use proper punctuation
• spell properly
• use plain text
• use paragraphs
• have a clear premise and ask a question
• don't use weird encoding
• reply emails should be inline with text below quote
• quotes should be prefixed by ">"

If your email is hard for me to read, I'll just delete it. Most hams are suppose to be trained communicators, so act like it.

I support strong crypto

My gpg key is below, please use it.

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