Welcome to MIRATS!
This is the homebase for the Michigan Radio Amateurs Technological Society, callsign: WE8CHZ – An FCC registered amateur radio club.
The society is primarily geared towards Michigan residents, but is open to all who wish to participate. It has a general focus on the exploration of radio technologies, the use of technology in practical applications, and other offshoots of the radio hobby depending on the mood.
We’re an Internet-based society, meaning that there is no regional or geographical home location within Michigan. We meet and socialize primarily on Discord, but can also be found and contacted via Facebook.
You’ll often find our members on the IRA Linked Repeater System (w8ira.org), W8BCI in Lansing (w8bci.org), as well as other area repeaters like WM-CONNECT on Wires-X.
Recent Posts from the Shack
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Read MoreGetting a full packet station up and running on Linux is frankly terrible. It involves setting up a lot of very powerful, but complicated software that all but seasoned Linux experts would struggle with. To make matters worse, because the Linux sound system has changed so much in a relatively...
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Read MoreFollow this guide AFTER following Packet Radio Basics with Software TNC. Vara is a WAY faster way to upload and download data from a Winlink or packet node. Created by EA5HVK, Vara comes in a number of varieties. The type we’ll be working with today is the FM version, which...
Read MoreWelcome to a guide to getting set up as quickly and easily as possible in packet radio. First, let’s define a few things: What hardware do you need to get started? There are two different ways to get started, either with a software or hardware TNC. We’re only going over...
Read MoreThis is a library of user-submitted code plugs for digital voice radios, including DMR, C4FM and D-STAR. If you want to submit a code plug for a different voice protocol, I’m happy to create a heading for it. Email your code plug with a short description to gordonthree-we8chz @ gmail.com...
Read MoreBricked your Flex 3000 with bad firmware? Maybe not. Hack your radio...
Read MoreA 5-band FT8 QRP transceiver with a wonderful color GUI is a good looking open source project you can build yourself...
Read MoreOriginally Published on March 21, 2017 by WT2P, CJ Johnson...
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