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Welcome

 Welcome to the new radio communications websiite. I have started this as I can no longer self-host from home due to a transfer of ISP (albeit within BT Group but unlike Plusnet BT don't offer static IP and also the line speed is far too slow to justify it) So what will be on here? Well I'll try and update when I can, this will be focused mainly on the radio communications hobby, be it Amateur, CB, PMR446 or short wave listening (I can actually do all of these from home with some creativity) The content from the original site at this domain is backed up in an image file stored on a local machine so can in theory be accessed but I should be aware that by using this platform I may eat into my Google storage and that isn't ideal. I will be also using this to promote my YouTube channel, which you can find in the links section, where you can subscribe, watch a few videos, like (or dislike, either works) the videos, or even chip in a bit towards the running of the channel, either...
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Mesh networking with MeshCore

While everyone has heard of Meshtastic, who hasn't, not many compared to that have so far heard of MeshCore, a new mesh based messaging system that works on 868MHz in a very similar way to Meshtastic but addresses some of the issues that has, mainly around routing. MeshCore uses pretty much the same hardware that the other stuff runs on, so switching your mesh over should be simply a case of reflashing the firmware and reconfiguring things, for devices operating as repeaters you can simply use a repeater-specific firmware and all the device will do is repeat traffic, nothing else, unlike the other system where every device repeats which could potentially be detrimental and cause messages never to get through. I'm planning on effectively deploying MeshCore in my local area as neither system seems to be in use by anyone else at the moment and this could be useful, it's also forming part of my emergency comms arrangement for the day that might happen which if events of May 202...
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New pages on Baofeng BF-888 disassembly and Baofeng BF-888 frequency adjustment

 I've added the first pages to the site, these are on the Baofeng BF-888, one on how to take it apart and one on how to adjust the frequency if it has drifted, the latter does not appear to be well known online and to be honest when I first tried on my circa-2016 BF-888 it was just a guess, but it was a correct guess, this radio had drifted quite some way off frequency over 8/9 years and in my opinion was out of specification. A YouTube video (early access members-only at time of posting but will be public on the 19th February) is on the channel covering both these topics, photos from the video have been used to make the disassembly guide. The page links are above, so if you need a guide to open a BF-888, say you're making an Allstar node with it as they're popular for this, then all the instructions you need are there to get to the inside of the radio.
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