This is part of a series of posts that hopefully will save people a bunch of time. How to Delete or Remove the Tone for Repeater Use in Baofeng UV-5R Important note: if you wait more than 9 seconds between any step below it will automatically go back to home screen and you have to start again, so work those…
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How to Set the Tone for Repeater Use in Baofeng UV-5R
This is part of a series of posts that hopefully will save people a bunch of time. How to Set the Tone for Repeater Use in Baofeng UV-5R Important note: if you wait more than 9 seconds between any step below it will automatically go back to home screen and you have to start again, so work those fingers, baby!…
How to Set the Plus/Minus Offset Duplex Setting for Repeater Use in Baofeng UV-5R
This is part of a series of posts that hopefully will save people a bunch of time. How to Set the Plus/Minus (+/-) Offset Duplex for Repeater Use in Baofeng UV-5R Important note: if you wait more than 9 seconds between any step below it will automatically go back to home screen and you have to start again, so work…
How to Quickly Manually Program a Frequency in Baofeng UV-5R
This will be a series of posts that hopefully will save people a bunch of time. How to Simply Manually Punch in a Frequency push VFO/MR orange button to make sure it’s in ‘frequency mode’, not in ‘channel mode’. If you have the voice feature on (on by default) the girl will tell you which mode you are in. …
How to Flash Cyanogen Mod on Nexus 4 Using Ubuntu
If you ended up on my first tutorial showing how to get ‘android back’ I did post that too hastily and forgot that Cyanogen mod is a much, much safer version of android because it doesn’t connect to the mothership of Google. If you have been running Ubuntu on the Nexus 4 and been challenged and need a temporary solution…
How to Flash Back to Android from Ubuntu Phone
UPDATE: This tutorial below will flash you back under the nasty tracking eyes of Google/Alphabet. You will get the google play store and all the ‘fun’ but you will also get spied on and ultimately regret it. I have since updated my tutorial/solution to this: How to Flash Cyanogen Mod on Nexus 4 Using Ubuntu There is no play store…
How to Fix Owncloud Maintenance Mode Message Ubuntu Server
Did and upgrade to your Ubuntu packages and owncloud is mucked up? Same. So I blogged this because it happens all the time and I always forget how to do it quickly. Hope this helps you, too: Access your server via terminal (ssh in) move to your owncloud directory. Mine is default and if yours is too copying and pasting…
How to Flash OpenWRT on a DIR-615 C1 Router
Before I explain the ‘how to’ part, please allow me to explain everything I tried to do first in case some of these key words save someone else the pain: -I tried everything I could find on the well meaning but horrendous pages of OpenWRT. Specifically this one for this router located here. -I tried the ‘upload via recovery mode…
How to Flash from Cyanogen Mod to Ubuntu on Nexus 4
Normally in the past, it was very easy for me to flash from android to Ubuntu for phone. I just used the usual ubuntu tutorial and it worked. Then, somewhere in the middle I switched to Cyanogen mod (android) as the ‘lesser of two evils’ while I was waiting for bluetooth to improve. I heard today that everything is working…
How to View Multiple Page Fax with Ubuntu
I got a fax recently as a .tif image file and when I went to open it on the world’s best operating system ubuntu, and it wouldn’t view anything except page 1! I thought there was a bug with the operating system but it turned out that they actually had, built right into ubuntu a viewer designed specifically to handle…