Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips
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Meshtastic Remote Controlled Phone
I wanted to access my Meshtastic nodes with the functionality provided by a mobile phone linked via Bluetooth. A number of solutions are briefly considered. Perhaps in the future If I can find one that works I will try an Android Emulator running on a server.
The instructions for setting up the mobile phone are here:
ruclips.net/video/2y35SPOaNWk/видео.html
I may have forgotten in the video to mention there may be one more setting on the phone which you have to set in order to enable remote controlling of the phone via usb debugging.
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Видео

Facebook wants my Money - starts charging users
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Surprise - Facebook is demanding money if you don't want your info to be used for advertising (and sold on to goodness knows where). I don't know when they started demanding this as I don't log in to Facebook very often...at all...
Meshtastic Stratospheric Balloon over Poland
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A group of people in Poland called HAST - High Altitude Stratospheric Team launched a balloon on 25.10.2024 carrying Meshtastic nodes on 868MHz and 433MHz ISM bands. I set up some equipment on a tall building in Munich, Germany to see if I could receive any signal from these nodes. Here is a link to a video of a past HAST balloon launch. ruclips.net/video/J9WXRSKnXVE/видео.html
Common Mode Choke Testing Part 2
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Due to popular demand, I reveal what is inside my common mode choke testing box. Thanks go to the original publisher of this circuit: ruclips.net/video/3ReRu7Yt4Ao/видео.html
Accessing Infrared IR Camera on Logitech Brio Webcam
Просмотров 11221 день назад
For the people who asked me how I did this - here are some more details on how you can do this yourself.
8 metre 40MHz band experimental FT8 transmissions
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The 8 metre 40MHz band is available on application for a licence for experimentation in some countries. Here I take a quick look to monitor FT8 activity there using a PA0RDT active miniwhip antenna feeding into an RTLSDR V5 usb dongle on Openwebrx running on Ubuntu 22.04 on a Proxmox server.
Common Mode Choke Testing
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Common mode signals propagating on transmission lines such as coaxial cable often cause problems for both transmit and receive. Here I show a simple way of testing the performnce of such chokes (also referred to as UNUNs). The circuit I built is thanks to this excellent channel: ruclips.net/video/3ReRu7Yt4Ao/видео.html
MediumFast Meshtastic
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Andy Kirby in the UK has suggested using MediumFast Modem Preset in the Lora settings in order to reduce congestion in densely used areas. There is a link budget penalty to pay for this but it may be outweighed by the advantage gained by using shorter bursts. My video shows these bursts using an SDR receiver. Andys video can be found here: ruclips.net/video/PWyhSEAb89c/видео.htmlsi=eUsl1n-uePGz...
Selfie Stick
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Selfie Stick
Nano VNA and Tiny SA as Signal Generators for testing Meshtastic frequency equipment
Просмотров 6614 месяца назад
I tested the signal generator portion of: NanoVNA-F v2 vector network analyser Tiny SA spectrum analyser Tiny SA Ultra spectrum analyser This is not the primary designed purpose of these devices but they can be used to generate useful signals for testing equipment like antennas and receivers. None of my devices have been accurately calibrated against standards since they were purchased.
SDR Server Receiver on Supermicro Proxmox Host
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I put 2 Nooelec SDR dongles in my Proxmox server to allow me to stream radio receivers to webbrowsers using openwebrx . Also running on my server I have the TC2-BBS software from The Comms Channel and the Meshtastic_sdr realtime packet (chirp) monitor to keep an eye on what is going on. Meshtastic_sdr is show here on this excellent channel: ruclips.net/video/muVsrqnJZ8I/видео.htmlsi=1pAwby1OD_0...
BBS for Meshtastic - Easy Install on Ubuntu 22.04
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.4 месяца назад
Maybe you remember the old Bulletin Boards (BBSs) that were reached by analogue dialup modems via telephone lines before TCP/IP and the Internet were invented. The BBS system has a certain nostalgic charm for me but has become important again in the field of low data rate comms via systems such as LoRa which is used for Meshtastic. The software TC2-BBS is created by "The Comms Channel" which ma...
Meshtastic Waveshare LoRa HAT setup on Raspberry Pi 4
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In this video I show the steps necessary to install the Meshtastic software on a headless Raspberry Pi 4 via ssh. Here is the list of commands which are needed: ssh username@ipaddr sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install libgpiod-dev libyaml-cpp-dev libbluetooth-dev openssl libssl-dev libulfius-dev liborcania-dev libulfius2.7 wget github.com/meshtastic/firmware/releases/download/v2.3....
Discone Antenna from Diamond Inc.
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A quick look at the Diamond D220R 0-1600MHz Discone Antenna mounted directly to a RTL-SDR receiver dongle.
Meshtastic on Raspberry Pi with Waveshare Lora Hat
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Using a SX1262 868/915MHz LoRaWAN/GNSS Hat from Waveshare, Made in China. Setting up was a little tricky but easily reproduced now that I have got it to work. A following video will show the steps necessary on the Raspberry Pi.
SDR Console Software for SDRPlay RSPDX Receiver Part 2 including WSJTX
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SDR Console Software for SDRPlay RSPDX Receiver Part 2 including WSJTX
Discone Antennas Part 2
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Discone Antennas Part 2
Lilygo T-Echo Meshtastic Antenna Test
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Lilygo T-Echo Meshtastic Antenna Test
SDR Console Software for SDRPlay RSPDX Receiver Part 1
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SDR Console Software for SDRPlay RSPDX Receiver Part 1
VNA Calibration to Cancel Cable Loss
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VNA Calibration to Cancel Cable Loss
Discone Broadband Antenna for Meshtastic and General Listening Part 1
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Discone Broadband Antenna for Meshtastic and General Listening Part 1
Meshtastic solar charging - quick first look
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Meshtastic solar charging - quick first look
Meshtastic Wireless Charger ELF Transmitter
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Meshtastic Wireless Charger ELF Transmitter
ISM Band Signal close to Meshtastic Frequency - can you identify it ?
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ISM Band Signal close to Meshtastic Frequency - can you identify it ?
Broadband Antenna - is it a Fake ? Part 3
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Broadband Antenna - is it a Fake ? Part 3
Meshtastic Minimalistic Stealth Node
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Meshtastic Minimalistic Stealth Node
Meshtastic Wireless Charging
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Meshtastic Wireless Charging
Broadband Antenna - is it a Fake ? Part 2
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Broadband Antenna - is it a Fake ? Part 2
Broadband Antenna - is it a Fake ? Part 1
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Broadband Antenna - is it a Fake ? Part 1
Meshtastic Diagnostic Data viewed on Phone via USB
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Meshtastic Diagnostic Data viewed on Phone via USB

Комментарии

  • @proteinman1981
    @proteinman1981 4 дня назад

    Thanks Simon for taking the time to share this, you helped me out

  • @russscott646
    @russscott646 5 дней назад

    hi simon just bought this , so happy with what it does for the money, thank you for the informative youtube video

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 4 дня назад

      Great to hear that !

    • @russscott646
      @russscott646 4 дня назад

      @@fotografm now in the process of building long wire and loop antenna

  • @somethingclever1234
    @somethingclever1234 5 дней назад

    SDR Console with the RSPdxR2 is my new favorite! Thanks for the videos

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 4 дня назад

      I am glad you found it useful !

  • @hotsparklab
    @hotsparklab 6 дней назад

    I'm experimenting with the Raspberry Pi 5 and this hat now. It's not connecting. The GPIO may be different though. We'll see how this goes... Thanks for the Pi 4 video!

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 4 дня назад

      Please keep us updated once you have worked it out !

    • @hotsparklab
      @hotsparklab 4 дня назад

      @ It works! I’m all setup on Pi 5. Most issues I had were just me being a meshtastic newb.

  • @davejenkins6804
    @davejenkins6804 10 дней назад

    How do you update the FW to a later version? Thanks

  • @collectiveunconscious3d
    @collectiveunconscious3d 12 дней назад

    Did you ever look into running android on a raspberry pi with a sim adapter and remote in with guacamole (or something)? I've looked into this a lot, but have yet to build it but also not sure whats the best way to make this work. This could be a solution, thanks

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 12 дней назад

      I tried Android on Waydroid, Chrome OS Flex, FydeOS and others but always came up against "not play protect verified" so could not install apps like Meshtastic. Did anyone else have better success ?

  • @janhenkins
    @janhenkins 12 дней назад

    Hi Simon. Thank you, this is an interesting solution. I have my mesh node in WiFi mode, and that enables the little built-in web server. It does not seem to expose the same node configuration functionality of the Android app, but it has a very useful interface. I have set my DHCP server to serve it a static IP address, so I can always get to it via my home-brew VPN tunnels. Cheers and 73, Jan M7HNK

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 12 дней назад

      Hi Jan, indeed this is an even simple roption, but as you said, some of the functionality is missing. Hopefully somebody will write a fully functional control software which can connect to a node by any one of a number of means. Let's see what happens 🙂

  • @kevinbrouelette6361
    @kevinbrouelette6361 13 дней назад

    I have this running on a RPi3 with Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS server image. I'm familiar with Linux so it wasn't too tough. I realized I wasn't getting the VM bash prompt because I had to run the 'source' command before running the command to invoke the VM. At least I think that's what it was. Thanks for the tutorial and happy meshtastic to you all.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 4 дня назад

      Glad to hear you got it working !

  • @JohnTarbox
    @JohnTarbox 13 дней назад

    Very nice video. Well done.

  • @Bezstopy
    @Bezstopy 13 дней назад

    lol "you pay" and than you see mostly adverts generated by users. I use fb quite often for closed comunity but this is so expensive its really funny. some who pays this must be really crazy :D

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 4 дня назад

      My view is that they should be paying us for the amount of data that they steal !

  • @Bezstopy
    @Bezstopy 13 дней назад

    try free windows app MeshSense, it has no nod settings but it snice for monitoring

  • @Robotron-zg6mf
    @Robotron-zg6mf 13 дней назад

    Your voice is beautiful

  • @0bsttax1
    @0bsttax1 13 дней назад

    Erster. Immer ein guter Kommentar. 😅

  • @jonbascos9125
    @jonbascos9125 21 день назад

    Excellent video. Got me up and running. Can't wait to see what else this can do.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 18 дней назад

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @moormoor4281
    @moormoor4281 23 дня назад

    Thanking you most kindly from English England

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 23 дня назад

      God bless you and all who sail in her 🙂

  • @moormoor4281
    @moormoor4281 23 дня назад

    Blimy

  • @yannkitson116
    @yannkitson116 23 дня назад

    Glad I never used FB...

  • @MrProvinspoul
    @MrProvinspoul 24 дня назад

    The only curve here on earth is the one from a fisheye lens..

    • @0bsttax1
      @0bsttax1 23 дня назад

      you clearly missed something… and i don‘t mean „yo mama“ jokes ^^ in case you were ironic, i missed that…. well played …..

  • @IAmChat
    @IAmChat 24 дня назад

    We need a balloon node in Brighton UK Simon. Its so hilly here! Kapil

  • @radioastronomy2001
    @radioastronomy2001 24 дня назад

    Great video. Is 433 for the LoraAPRS or Meshtastic? I am trying to get into this stuff but there are a lot of options.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 24 дня назад

      Glad you liked it. 433 is also for Meshtastic. It seems far less popular than 866. Probably because the allowed transmit power is much lower unless you are a licensed radio amateur.

  • @MyTube4Utoo
    @MyTube4Utoo 24 дня назад

    Very interesting.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 24 дня назад

      Glad you found it interesting.

  • @josios1
    @josios1 27 дней назад

    Hi, I have tried all the settings, including the laptop app, but nothing works. I am not receiving any MQTT data. I also have the impression that my Lora component is defective, as I see in every video on the ESP32 V3 display that you can select multiple pages (dots at the bottom). But for me there are only 2, no matter which firmware I install. Greetings

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 26 дней назад

      Are you using a Heltec v3 ? I tend to ignore the display on those and always use the mobile phone app via bluetooth as there are more setting options available. MQTT needs to be enabled in three different places: Channels settings: UPLINK and DOWLINK both enabled. Lora settings - Ignore MQTT: OFF and OK to MQTT: ON. MQTT settings module: MQTT: enabled, default address, username and password. Good luck !

  • @nimahosseini4238
    @nimahosseini4238 28 дней назад

    Hi! I'm interested in learning how you've utilized the IR camera feature of the Logitech BRIO. I would appreciate any guidance or tips you could share regarding your experience. Thank you!

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 25 дней назад

      Hi ! Thanks for your question. It prompted me to make a new video showing how I did this. Please take a look: ruclips.net/video/bwIpULxm6io/видео.html

  • @MakeDoAndMend1
    @MakeDoAndMend1 Месяц назад

    Great video. Just in the making aerials etc. Where did you buy the paradar from. Cannot find them so far. Cheers from old George. Just hope there not too expensive. 😮

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      I got it on Amazon UK.

    • @MakeDoAndMend1
      @MakeDoAndMend1 Месяц назад

      @@fotografm Many thanks just found it. Argh it's out of my price range. Not many 868mhz stations around me. 2 of which are 25miles. The other 5 miles away. It's not very active in Corby. Cheers anyway. George UK

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 28 дней назад

      @@MakeDoAndMend1 Hopefully the number of stations local to you will increase to build up the mesh. Then you won't need a special antenna ;-)

  • @AtleyBartholf-l6g
    @AtleyBartholf-l6g Месяц назад

    i cant seem to connect to the webserver at all. meshtastic is running and i can see it all working on the logs but i cant connect to adjust settings at all. any ideas?

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 28 дней назад

      Strange. I just pointed my browser to: raspi . What do you see on your screen when you first go to this url ?

  • @bobbuilder3748
    @bobbuilder3748 Месяц назад

    My hardware arrived today. I can't say it's been a pleasant experience. I picked up a few nodes at one time, one of which was about 80km away, but nothing since. My second node has been put in a consolidated package, which is taking the slow route to get here, so it'll be another week at least before I have another node to test with on site. Are you using the SX126X_ANT_SW setting? This is included with the board settings now, unlike at the time your video was posted.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      It's always useful to haave several nodes on hand for testing against each other !

  • @stevec5000
    @stevec5000 Месяц назад

    The mini whip is a fraud that can't pick up anything so why waste your time with them?

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      I find that it works really well for picking up VLF signals like DFC77 on 77kHz and the aircraft NDBs around 400kHz. Your mileage may vary.

    • @stevec5000
      @stevec5000 Месяц назад

      @@fotografm The 4" probe couldn't possibly pick up any signal on LF or HF! If you are getting something you must have a break in the shield of your coax that lets it in!

  • @training2523
    @training2523 Месяц назад

    Nice video, but would be even better without soembody reaaranging the kitchen in the background

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      Yes, you are right. I have moved my recording studio to a quieter room !

  • @grahamwebber9208
    @grahamwebber9208 Месяц назад

    Just so you are aware, the Waveshare board featured here has a known issue sending long messages and the TX power is well below stated output on Meshtastic. The issue is being discussed on the official Meshtastics Discord (Linux), hopefully it will be fixed soon.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      That is useful info. Thanks for bringing it to my attention !

    • @grahamwebber9208
      @grahamwebber9208 Месяц назад

      @fotografm update: This is a crystal issue that can't be fixed. My advice is to keep clear.

    • @bobbuilder3748
      @bobbuilder3748 5 дней назад

      @@grahamwebber9208 A few weeks too late for me, unfortunately. Any recommendations for hardware that does work? (Other than FrequencyLabs, which is just too expensive even before shipping is factored in).

  • @julias-shed
    @julias-shed Месяц назад

    Black and white reference made me laugh thanks for the video.😀

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      Came from the days of "Blue Peter" on 405 line TV I expect...

    • @julias-shed
      @julias-shed Месяц назад

      @@fotografm wasn't it from the early days of snooker coverage when Ray Reardon was a lad? 🤣

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      ​@julias-shed you are absolutely right 😅

  • @techjohnc3379
    @techjohnc3379 Месяц назад

    Thank you for shining a light on this experimental band. I will set up a receiver for extended monitoring. Your audio was difficult to hear.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      Sorry about the audio. Was using laptop built in mic with gain set to max. Next time will use a better mic !

  • @Andy2e0ree
    @Andy2e0ree Месяц назад

    I do hope we get it in the UK 🇬🇧

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      It is already available in the UK if you get the special license to use it. I think you mean getting it added to the amateur radio service. This may take a little longer...

  • @markwilliams5654
    @markwilliams5654 Месяц назад

    How much does covering up the radials with a plastic cover affect it does it lose db

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      The effect will be absolutely minimal, even if the plastic should happen to be lossy, since such a small porion of the length of the radials is in the vicinity of the plastic. There will also be a minimal lowering of the resonance frequency of the radials due to the dielectric effect, but again this will be minimal.

    • @markwilliams5654
      @markwilliams5654 Месяц назад

      @@fotografm cool I'm experimenting making one and making a 3D printed cover

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      @@markwilliams5654 Excellent. Publish your results to inspire us all !

  • @N0FPV
    @N0FPV Месяц назад

    Maybe its intended for your body to be the ground plane?

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      Could be the case.

  • @Michael_Violet
    @Michael_Violet Месяц назад

    It would be useful if you would cover this camera with some different kinds of obstacles to see how it differs

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      It's gone now. I sold the laptop as it was so underpowered. Will try it out on my new one when I put Linux on it. Shouldn't be long now, the way windoze is going !

  • @jerryli5555
    @jerryli5555 Месяц назад

    Luck for you. I got a bricked thinkstation P720, resetting BIOS jump doesn't work, only get 3 short beepings. No Luck

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      Sorry to hear about that

  • @NickBFTD
    @NickBFTD Месяц назад

    This meshtastic thing is so frustrating, i get nothing locally and i followed the advice in the video still nothing 😤

    • @NickBFTD
      @NickBFTD Месяц назад

      Scratch that, it seems erratic on whether it wants to save settings or not.

  • @Smash-n-Grab
    @Smash-n-Grab Месяц назад

    @Simon Phillips No PI3b? tried it on arm64 and libyaml-cpp0.7 let me down on the dependency , not only that i tried pointing to /boot/config.txt as i never had /boot/firmware/config.txt . i cannot install meshtasticd .....meh ive run out of pi4 but have a load of 3b+

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      I never had a Pi 3. Only model 4 plus now a 5 which still had problems with Meshtastic and Ubuntu las time I tried it.

    • @Smash-n-Grab
      @Smash-n-Grab Месяц назад

      Ah that's what it is .. I'm using Rasbian bullseye and was pulling my hair out . I was working on some ais servers also and this is the result of too many hours at the screen . Ha! Ubuntu no wonder there was no /boot/firmware folder ....damn! Will reimage and post back .Tnx

  • @DrKnow65
    @DrKnow65 Месяц назад

    Could it be that the Tiny SA was showing -db errors because of the noise floor (-28dbm from tiny SA with the -40db attenuator)?

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      That's a good point !

  • @punkbutler88
    @punkbutler88 Месяц назад

    Awesome tutorial! Thanks! Was wondering how to do this.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      Glad it was helpful!

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      Glad it was helpful!

  • @Badg0r
    @Badg0r 2 месяца назад

    What is BBS software?

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      Bulletin Board System

  • @pusztipuszti
    @pusztipuszti 2 месяца назад

    I did the same, repladed normal bulb to LED. Now the lamp emmits some fluorescending light even when switched off. Why is this?

  • @antonioeblen6662
    @antonioeblen6662 2 месяца назад

    Great video and experiments. Thanks a lot!

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 2 месяца назад

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @IK8XOO--Paolo
    @IK8XOO--Paolo 2 месяца назад

    Miniwhip is a PROBE for the electric field not an antenna. Conductive objects modify and reduce the electric field so it must be installed in free-space. So the miniwhip is sensitive only to the electrical component of the e.m. field: this is its main advantage because man-made structures or trees absorb the electric field much more than the magnetic one and therefore, if mounted correctly in free space (non-conductive pole of at least four meters) it will receive less disturbances than a small diameter loop or a long dipole and generally provides a higher signal/noise ratio. The original project is calculated to work conveniently from a few kilohertz up to about ten megahertz. An antenna to be defined as "long wire" and behave as such must be longer than one wavelength. 73s.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Месяц назад

      I agree with you.

    • @IK8XOO--Paolo
      @IK8XOO--Paolo Месяц назад

      @@fotografm Thanks. However, rereading I have to make a clarification. I wrote: "it will receive less disturbances..." This is true for the reasons I wrote, but only if the source of the disturbance is less than about a wavelength away (near field). Beyond this distance, the electric field and the magnetic field are closely related. Also for this reason it will be convenient using on the VLF and the lowest part of HF. 73s

  • @tangoalpha8381
    @tangoalpha8381 2 месяца назад

    🏆👍🇧🇷

  • @chrisperrywv
    @chrisperrywv 2 месяца назад

    Duuuuude. That’s neat.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 2 месяца назад

      Glad you like it !

  • @markwilliams5654
    @markwilliams5654 2 месяца назад

    Nice clear information I got mine working today

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 2 месяца назад

      Glad it helped

  • @fooballers7883
    @fooballers7883 2 месяца назад

    Thank you... much appreciated.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 2 месяца назад

      Glad it helped

  • @markwilliams5654
    @markwilliams5654 2 месяца назад

    Good job 👍 I just ordered a t deck to play with

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 2 месяца назад

      Hope you enjoy it!

  • @MisterBigDave
    @MisterBigDave 2 месяца назад

    Supposedly has a design change in the front end filters for the newer ones, but I’m very happy with mine. No problems, works for me very well. I like the 330 too, very solid little unit. Thanks!

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm 2 месяца назад

      Thanks for sharing