Oh no this is extremely, extremely complicated.

> “only 3 ingredients”
> one of them is metatrihexyl polymascot 6-bimetafoamalate

I think there’s a bug somewhere in the bluestation UMAC code though. The PDP activate PDU is huge (like 500 bits) so goes over three fragments (56 in the initial MAC ACCESS, then two more full slot fragments in reserved slots) but the last one seems to be lost 80% of the time.

Holy shit I got the radio to send an `SN-ACTIVATE PDP CONTEXT DEMAND` PDU after much fiddling around with options in the codeplug. Now I just need to… implement the whole SNDCP protocol. :blobfoxcofe:

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omg! slop in mein feed?! unsurscirbe

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#funhole

Started playing around with TETRA packet data stuff. Didn’t get anywhere. Crikey like half the air interface spec is devoted to it… not even sure where to begin.

I just need to figure out what the fucking screws are now. They aren't M2.5 or M3. Both of those fit but bind up after a few turns. Feels like a weird pitch? UNC? Erfff.

yes the pin numbering is absolutely insane

A little PCB labelled ST-Conn.

Nowhere seems to stock the cable anymore so... yeah... should be here next week.

I love this teal-blue colour Motorola are using for soldermask these days, it's a vibe.

FTR I'm thinking top left is GND, 2 & 3 are data, rightmost is VBUS.

Some pictures of the insides of a radio and connectors with writing on them.

feel like this is the ham radio/hacker equivalent of the "crazy guy pointing at pinboard with web of string-connected notes" meme

upshot: I think I know which pins are VBUS/GND/USBD+/USBD- now.

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ESN is supposedly a LTE/5G MVNO/network slice running on top of EE, with a layer providing PTT, group calls, prioritisation etc.

I just can't imagine how that's going to perform better than what we have today. Latency? Coverage (lots of places in the sticks have no LTE still).

I can't imagine […]

> "2000-era radios"

A _lil_ bit disappointing to see El Reg playing into the narrative that this change is worthwhile or in any way needed. ESN sounds like it has all the makings of being the UK's worst "Big Government IT Project" yet.

The implication that things haven't moved on in the […]

Cops hand Motorola £25M to keep 2000-era radios alive : Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budget

And the dance goes on... https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/motorola_airwave

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Shame about the slop visuals. This is a banger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGO142zWkIs

Happy Fursuit Friday, fuzzies.

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Oh dude this isn’t Mini-GCAI at all. I was under the impression that it was the same on all the newer radios but this is fucking different. Honestly… the hilarious thing is it’s mostly USB too.