Odessa Ham Club West Texas Amateur Radio Club

05/30/2024

Guess I’ll be voting for a felon on November 5th……welcome to the Third World…..FJB

05/04/2023

Jessica on The Five is the reason for the MUTE button on the remote….

05/07/2021

ARRL Field Day 2021 will be here before you know it...get your rigs in working order and your antennas up in the air.....

01/19/2021

A very big thank you to all who worked to make the tower raising go so well...N5MI, N5RGH, KI5DAD, KG5SOK, KC7KQT, KG5GQZ, and Mark's friend John, and, of course, the master rigger, Adrian. Once the top section was in-place, N5RGH climbed to the top to thread a pulley with a haul rope to raise up my Alpha-Delta DX-LB 40/80/160 trapped dipole. Great work by the members of West Texas Amateur Radio Club - WTARC.

12/06/2020

A little Saturday morning project at Winston's (KI5DAD) shop. An antenna mount for Mark's (N5MI) pickup. Welding by John (NT5EE)...Cold and misty outside, but warm in the shop with a small propane heater. Also got to see KI5DAD's plasma cutter.
Report later from N5MI said very good results from the new mount on his pickup.

08/25/2020

The funeral for Joe Detiveaux will be held at 11 am Saturday, at St.Elizabeth Ann Seton church. Please wear a mask and social distance.

07/26/2020

West Texas Amateur Radio Club, 3 PM tea at catfish and company.

07/26/2020

Just posted on eHam about the TGIF hotspot.

eHam.net is a Web site dedicated to ham radio (amateur radio).

06/20/2020

Pi-Star up date, Do it.

Just a short video on the Pi-Star 4.1 Release.

06/13/2020

Congratulations to Jonathan Golden, KG5MIN/AE for passing the Amateur Extra exam this morning....

06/04/2020

Raspberry Pi in case you wanted to know what the differences between the models.

Compare Raspberry Pi 4 vs Raspberry Pi 3 A+ vs Raspberry Pi 3 B+ vs Raspberry Pi 3 vs Raspberry Pi 2 vs Raspberry Pi Zero vs Raspberry Pi

06/02/2020

You might have seen this before, I tried it and it works.
You also can make a backup SD card. So TRY it.

MAKING A CLONE OF YOUR SD CARD WITH A TGIF SPOT HOT SPOT

ITEMS NEEDED:
1.SD CARD READER/WRITER 2.0 USB ADAPTER
2.A FORMATED 16GB CLASS 10 MICRO USB CARD. I ( I PREFER SAN DISK )
3.A TGIF HOT SPOT

DIRECTIONS:
1.PUT FORMATTED SD CARD IN SD CARD READER/WRITER
2.PLUG SD CARD READER/WRITER IN ONE OF THE CENTER USB PORTS OF YOUR 2.4 or 3.5 TGIF HOT SPOT.
DO NOT USE THE TOP OUTSIDE PORT AS THAT IS USED INTERNALLY FOR THE NEXTION SCREEN.
3.OPEN UP YOUR PI-STAR DASHBOARD.
4.GO TO CONFIGURATION PAGE.YOU MIGHT BE PROMPTED FOR NAME AND PASSWORD. NAME:pi-star PASSWORD:raspberry
5.GO TO EXPERT PAGE.
6.GO TO SSH ACCESS PAGE. ( THE TAB IS ON THE TOP RIGHT) YOU WILL COME TO A BLACK SCREEN WITH A LOG IN PROMPT)
7.PI-STAR LOGIN (pi-star) HIT ENTER.
8.PASSWORD (raspberry) HIT ENTER. ( YOU WILL COME TO A PAGE WITH A BIG RED PI-STAR AND A COMMAND LINE WITH A FLASHING CURSER AT THE BOTTOM.
9.TYPE IN sudo su and HIT ENTER.
10.TYPE IN RPI-RW and HIT ENTER.
11.TYPE IN sudo rpi-clone sda and HIT ENTER
12.TYPE Y FOR YES TO CLONE and HIT ENTER
13.HIT ENTER AGAIN AND CURSER WILL BE ON THE LEFT FLASHING. ( YOUR SD CARD IS NOW BEING CLONED)
WAIT 3-5 MINUTES WHEN YOU ARE BACK AT THE COMMAND PROMPT THE CARD IS CLONED AND IS SAFE TO REMOVE.
TO EXIT JUST GO BACK TO THE TOP OF THE PAGE AND CLICK THE ADMIN TAB. IT MIGHT SAY IF YOU LEAVE THE PAGE ANY CHANGES MIGHT NOT BE SAVED. IT IS OK TO HIT LEAVE. IT WILL NOT EFFECT ANYTHING.
73
ROBERT
K4WZV