TARXVF
If you need to pronounce it, that’s “tar-chief” I suppose.
I’m fascinated by radios, aviation, and languages. I like open source.
I spend a lot of time paragliding, working on radios and other hobbies and side projects too numerous to list without being thoroughly embarassing. Some of those occasionally get posted publicly, even incomplete.
I have no shame about putting incomplete projects on the internet, nor talking about plans and then not following through. Most of the fun in a project for me is figuring out how to do it - I do these things for my own edification.
That’s also why I don’t stick to one topic or industry or career subpath; instead I find myself rotating through interests - most recently (mid 2024) I’ve been hard into motorcycles, and I’ll be back around to radios again shortly I’m sure. (2025 Feb update: Yep. Several times now.)
I contributed the firmware upgrade code and a few other bits to the old md380tools.
I’m responsible for DMR.Tools, a web-based codeplug editor and firmware upgrader for TYT DMR radios using WebUSB.
You can find a lot more dmr.tools details elsewhere on this site.
I was heavily involved in the start of M17 across all aspects and split from that group in late 2023 in no small part due to the way my friends at ORI were treated. I’m still very much into radios and writing code for and against them, but I’m much pickier about who I’ll partner with and what I share publicly.
You can reach me through email at literally anything at this domain (example: “support [at] tarxvf [dot] tech”), but if you’re using email services from a large company make sure to check your spam box to get my replies. I run my own mail and I don’t send enough email for the big places to decide whether I’m a spammer, which seems a contradiction.