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Thrift stores are awesome
Something I’ve never mentioned since moving to Finland is the abundance of thrift stores. When I say abundance, I’m not joking, a query to Overpass Turbo querying second_hand stores, I could find more than 65 in the Helsinki region! In the past few days, I’ve been visiting a few with a friend, to see if…
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The first 100
On 2026-02-12, I finally managed to reach 100 contacts over the radio. Considering 2026-02-17 will mark the first year of being licensed, I find it pretty good. Before November 2025, my transmissions were sparse, but DMR revived the whole thing for me and I”ve been making most of my contacts via this mode. For the…
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Setting up LoTW
Logbook Of The World (or LoTW) for short, is a website providing logging for amateur radio contacts; maintained by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Until now, I was solely using the QRZ logbook to log my contacts, but seeing how many people also request confirmations using LoTW, I decided to go ahead and create…
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No more Discord for the Purple Hour
Discord has been a lot in the news lately, and I won’t lie, this post is written as a direct result. However, this is not a “you should switch to this” post, more of an announcement. I’ve been holding my Resonite Team office hours (called “The Purple Hour”) since July 2025, and the editions were…
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Bonus: Setting up a WPSD hotspot for DMR
I”ve mentioned DMR hotspots before, but only with the software Pi-Star, which is the current standard in that matter. Today, I”m having a look at the WPSD project, which has a much more modern take on hotspot software. Just like Pi-Star, it can be used as a gateway to a bunch of protocols, including DMR…
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GitHub and IPv6 in 2026
Time for the status again. It’s now been four years since IPv6 support was requested from GitHub. I’m afraid the situation hasn’t evolved much since last year. As usual, the domain avatars.githubusercontent.com does resolve to an array of IPv6 addresses announced by Fastly. Unsurprisingly, the rest remains sad. You still cannot load the homepage, clone…
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Taking a step back
I have decided to take a small step back from public-facing Resonite online spaces. This decision was taken as nowadays, while there are some wonderful things and (lots of) constructive feedback, the load of bad-faith remarks about the Resonite Team being “lazy” or “not transparent”, or whatever ill you may think of is honestly wearing…
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Bonus: the events of DMR
Since I haven”t seen a list around of DMR-related events, here are the ones I could find. All those events happen on BrandMeister, I”ve never used any other DMR networks. World-Wide Check-In Happens every Saturday at 16:00 UTC in talkgroup 91 (World-Wide). The world will be called region by region, and all you have to…
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DMR Hotspot bonus
While talking in the FinDMR chat, someone mentioned there is an easier way to manage talkgroups from the radio itself, instead of continuously swapping TGs in the dashboard. Turns out you can leave everything blank in the BrandMeister hotspot settings and instead dial directly the group which will add it as “Auto Static”. When you’re…