Welcome to my website. My kc5goi.net site is more comprehensive. This is a project that will always be subject to random updates.

I have been a licensed Amateur Radio Operator since 1994. I hold an Extra Class ticket. My main interests are in emergency communications and getting portable stations on the air. Check me out on QRZ.com.

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I recommend the use of sound card modes for when you need to send a large message over using voice. Long messages take much longer and are prone to error. Voice is great for short messages and exchanges but not good for long lists. and its companion programs provide an excellent method for doing NBEMS via HF/VHF/UHF. NBEMS utilizes your sound card, a Signalink USB, Rigblaster or other sound card interface to get the audio from your radio to the computer so it can be decoded.

  • Fldigi This is the main site for obtaining Fldigi.
  • Fldigi download page. The are version for Linux, Windows and OSX.
  • ARRL NBEMS page.
  • Western Pennsylvania NBEMS site.
  • Youtube video on the basic NBEMS setup on VHF/UHF.

    • The daddy of APRS, Bob Bruninga's site

    Presentations and lectures

  • Power Line Noise issues at my QTH
  • KC5GOI 1999 DCC Presentation in MS Power Point
  • APRS presentations at the TAPR web site
  • 1997 DCC Presentation
  • APRS presentations and lectures

    • Equipment Maintainance

  • TNC tone quality by John Ackerman N8UR


    • I am not a Linux guru by any shape, form or fashion of the word. I have in the past had a previous employer using Postfix with greylisting, AV and spam filtering to avoid the expense of Exchange. It worked great for us, did not have any speakable down time and allowed a significant amount of flexability. That was not the only use for Linux at that office but that company was closed in 2011 after surviving being aquired twice.
    73, KC5GOI