Good Morning All,

??????????????? It is with both a saddened heart and surprise to me that Matthew Atwood (WE1H) became a Silent Key back in January. His Data node up in New Hampshire fell silent recently and was still running up until the beginning of May. For those who knew Matt he was an avid packeteer and active on both HF and VHF packet. His knowledge and assistance will be greatly missed and he has been a wealth of information any time I have run into problems with keeping the central Georgia data network available for both HF and VHF users to include VARA HF. I was unaware that Matt was fighting cancer for the past few years and lost his fight Jan 21, 2024 – It was just something that never came up in our conversations on the phone or over packet.

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??????????????? I do not know the full story, but Matt’s station remained active on the air and over the internet up until the beginning of this month. Due to being very busy the last couple weeks I did not realize until this morning that traffic messages ceased from his node or his passing. Matt’s node was the main pathway for bulletins and message traffic. This does not affect the Winlink pathway, but does affect the primarily packet/message handling. Because Matt was the best route to handle this information he was the primary inbound and the alternate pathways are no longer active. I will be reaching out to the other nodes I am connected to along with some other nodes I am not linked to for a new primary and alternate pathway. In the meantime all aspects on the N3BYR node will remain active and pathways to North and Central Florida along with Central Georgia are still reachable. ?

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B. Greg Colburn Jr., USAF (ret.)

N3BYR –

GA ARES Tri-County Member

GA ARRL Field Org./Technical Specialist

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“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a row boat…

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