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Re: Kandiyohi County Fair
Once we work out a schedule, I will cover any PM shifts on any or all of the four days.
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Re: Kandiyohi County Fair
This sounds like a great opportunity to promote our hobby/sport, and also to raise awareness for what we can do to support our community.
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Kandiyohi County Fair
We have an opportunity to assist Kandiyohi Emergency Management (KCEM) during the upcoming Kandiyohi County Fair, August 7-10, 2024.? KCEM needs assistance with manning their booth.? I will meet
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Re: Comms trailer work day 8/10/2024
Dan- I'll bring some tools but I'm usually not sure what all to bring until I get there and realize I didn't bring what I needed, which may then require a trip to Harbor Freight.
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Re: Comms trailer work day 8/10/2024
I'm planning to be there.
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#APRSThursday Net
#APRSThursday
For anyone interested-
WHAT: #APRSTHURSDAY ( https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/aprsthursday/ ) net
WHEN: 25-JULY-2024 00:00 - 23:59 UTC
WHERE: APRS
HOW: Destination Station = ANSRVR
HOW: Message
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W0AYE Ben Wussow
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Re: Comms trailer work day 8/10/2024
Might be able to make it, will bring my testers. Anything else may need?
But there is a ham fest in Brewster that morning as well.....
[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: Results from today's distance test using N0QBH-10 at the HHS site.
On Friday I took a drive northeast to Paynesville to do VARA FM range testing.
I sent emails from the city airport (20.5 mi) then drove east on hwy #55 and went south on MN #4.
About 4 miles south of
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Comms trailer work day 8/10/2024
On Saturday, August 10th from 9 am to 11:30 am, I'd like to get a few people to help with testing antennas(SWR) and hooking up a few dual band radios. If you feel like lending a hand for a couple
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Re: Results from today's distance test using N0QBH-10 at the HHS site.
On Tuesday I traveled to Elrosa (30 mi north) and sent an Winlink VARA FM email to Ben & Tony via N0QBH-10 in Willmar from my car in the church parking lot.
Prior to that I sent one from the Crow
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Results from today's distance test using N0QBH-10 at the HHS site.
I took a drive west and north today to test the radio path between my car and the new VARA FM gateway at the 400' HHS site.
The red arrows are places I stopped and sent an email to Tony & Ben using
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Accessing Ben's gateway from a distance
Now that we have a tall Gateway/digipeater running at the HHS site on the north side of Willmar I will show you one way of using it.
Since in it's present configuration we have no Internet connection,
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Re: W0SW quarterly club meeting 7/23/2024
This coming Tuesday, July 23rd at 6:30pm.
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Re: W0SW quarterly club meeting 7/23/2024
July or August?? Mike's confused???? ;)
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W0SW quarterly club meeting 7/23/2024
Hello members, the next quarterly meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 23rd at 6:30 pm. The meeting location will be at the Kandiyohi Rescue Squad building 213 Lakeland Dr NE, Willmar, MN 56201
We
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Winlink on at HHS 145.070
Ben W0AYE, Tony WD0HXV and myself N0QBH swapped the Kantronics packet TNC out for a Winlink VARA FM gateway today at the HHS site.
As I mentioned before, we don't have Internet access at this site
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Re: Short notice POTA
It turned out to be a short activation due to the heat. 10m was pretty quiet, but a few stations could be heard in the noise. 20m proved to be a success with a total of 37 contacts mostly within an
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Short notice POTA
Leon KF0OUA and I will be doing a Parks On The Air activation at Monson State Park at 9am 7/14/24. We're going to try to do a 10m activation so anyone with their technicians license is welcome to come
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Re: Tall Winlink
After we did some email testing using three different user stations, it was clear the stand alone post office worked as advertised.
It's a Winlink mode that we could employ if some catastrophe takes
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Re: Tall Winlink
Ahead of the gateway move to the HHS 400' tower both Mike N0QBH and I will be testing various functions and settings on the N0QBH-10 and W0AYE-10 gateways. Mike's gateway is Radio Only and will not
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