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Layman's explanation of VARA
VARA - How it works in layman's terms.
Most amateur digital discussions these days will come around to talking about the VARA mode by EA5HVK.
VARA has been in development for many years and is now a
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Slide show of all things VARA
Answers a lot of questions a potential user might have about using VARA software modems.
https://www.k7yca.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/VARA-Rev-9.pdf
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Re: Updated WILMAR tower info
Ya 150-164 mhz, not a db 224 though but a db 616ab.
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KC0CAP Dan Gelle
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Re: Updated WILMAR tower info
Are you referring to the unconnected cable in the exiting bundle photo?
We noticed it was marked as high SWR. Maybe it's business band VHF.
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Re: Updated WILMAR tower info
This is the antenna up there for both digi and 440. It's either a 5.5 db or
5.0 db version. Pointed East. There is an unused antenna up there but does
not tune well in ham band 2 meter
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KC0CAP Dan Gelle
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Updated WILMAR tower info
Tony WD0HXV and I N0QBH were out to the HHS tower site again today and this time we did a little more sleuthing regarding the feedline to the tower top 400' up.
Much to our delight, we discovered the
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Re: What APRS looks like
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W0AYE Ben Wussow
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Re: Welcome to the local 145.690 Winlink network
There are radios with built in soundcards like the Yaesu FT-991A, Icom IC-7100 and Icom IC-9700 that do not require the use of an external soundcard. These radios are good examples of do-it-all radios
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ARRL NTS Letter 2/6/2024
#arrl
If you are having trouble reading this message, you can see the original at:
http://www.arrl.org/nts-letter?issue=2024-02-06
February 6, 2024
The NTS Letter Archive ( http://www.arrl.org/nts-letter
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What APRS looks like
https://aprs.fi/#!lat=45.2300&lng=-95.0500
Zoom in/out, search the track history (1hr, 3hr...)
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Welcome to the local 145.690 Winlink network
Tony WD0HXV has joined the local Winlink network!
It's built around the Winlink Gateway W0AYE-10 run by Ben W0AYE.
This serves as our access to the rest of the Winlink world.
We are looking for more
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Re: The Case for APRS
Agreed, however, that's a lot of $$ to keep an unused packet node on frequency.
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Re: 147.030 repeater
Interesting,
I have a set of WACOM 643 6 cavity VHF duplexer, that needs to be refurbished, the rods got bent during shipping, I think they threw a heavy box on top of them when it was shipped, I
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WR0RR Randy Rethlake
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Re: 147.030 repeater
Yes, you figured it out. It took me quite a while to trace a lot of those
lines there, some of the height labels don't match up with the spread sheet
there totally either.
But there are some empty biz
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KC0CAP Dan Gelle
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Re: 147.030 repeater
Belay my last. Looking at the photo tells me that would only work on the lower antenna. The upper is a 450 MHz (listen only).
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Re: 147.030 repeater
This time it was off for 3 weeks or so.
Thanks for the detailed info on the repeater itself.
Believe me, that was hard to come by in the past.
Since an earlier discussion was on cavity duplexers, one
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Re: 147.030 repeater
How far back ar you remembering it being offline Mike?
A couple summers ago it was off due to the Air conditioning not working and
the repeater locked up.
I happened to be in Willmar and checked on it
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KC0CAP Dan Gelle
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147.030 repeater
I noticed the 147.03 Willmar repeater is back on.
Anyone know what was ailing it?
73
Mike N0QBH
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Re: The Case for APRS
I think Randy may have a idea there. if we could use a Duplexer for 2
meter since they are 600 khz split like a repeater pair......hmmm
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KC0CAP Dan Gelle
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Re: The Case for APRS
Hello Randy, good to hear from you again.
Presently, the HHS tower has the 444.800 repeater and the 145.670 packet node in the same rack and combined into 1/2" hard line coax leaving the rack.
There
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