I was plugging my Icom IC-705 into my laptop in the field and I sometimes find that the devices doesn’t always land on /dev/ttyACM0. which means configuring other tools like WSJTX and direwolf will need to point the next dev of /tty/ACM02. This can be a little tedious and it isn’t always convenient to debug technical issues in the middle of field. To try and make this a little more painless I have setup a udev rule to pick out the IC-705 and give it a symbolic name such as /dev/ic705CAT.

Yesterday I went to Cringle Hill, this was the paek adjacent to the one I previously visited on 6th May Ground Hill G/TW-001. I went alone with my IC-705, planning to do APRS and see if I can pick up stations both the Noth of the moor and south, and see if I can relay them. A Temporary join of the two areas! As soon as I set up the station on 2M, I head G0WPO/P on another summit.

Happy Chocolate Egg Day! I went out and tried to get some 2M APRS Portable by bike! I had my laptop, icom 705 and a 5M fibreglass pole with a J pole/slim jim for the top. I didn’t have a stargety for a good location. I just wanted to practice something near home. As I set up and tried to switch my laptop on. It would just flash and blink all it’s lights.