There was a moment of silence. Then, a voice came through the speaker. It was heavily digitized, sounding like thousands of tiny glass beads cascading together.
The digital ham radio world was buzzing. Operators from Tokyo to Toronto were linked into her testing node, waiting to see if her new bridging script would succeed. She typed the final command: sudo ./deploy_yl3im_upd.sh She pressed Enter. The progress bar began to crawl. Loading cross-mode bridges... 34% Syncing DMR IDs... 67% Mapping NXDN Talkgroups... 89% yl3im upd
"YL3IM... read you loud and clear. We are receiving your update. It is... beautiful." There was a moment of silence