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Locked 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
Locked 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,
By N0QBH Mike Berg · #318 ·
Locked Re: W0SW quarterly club meeting 7/23/2024
This coming Tuesday, July 23rd at 6:30pm.
By W0AYE Ben Wussow · #317 ·
Locked Re: W0SW quarterly club meeting 7/23/2024
July or August?? Mike's confused???? ;)
By N0QBH Mike Berg · #316 ·
Locked 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
Locked 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
By N0QBH Mike Berg · #314 ·
Locked 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
By W0AYE Ben Wussow · #313 ·
Locked 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
By W0AYE Ben Wussow · #312 ·
Locked 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
By N0QBH Mike Berg · #311 ·
Locked 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
By W0AYE Ben Wussow · #310 ·
Locked Signal conditioning and FM radio
Sometimes as Hams we hear the terms pre emphasis and de emphasis and how it improves our audio quality. This is the best, short description I've seen for us laymen. In signal processing (
By N0QBH Mike Berg · #308 ·
Locked Re: Update on LOTW!
*MEMBER BULLETIN* July 1, 2024 Dear ARRL member, *Effective 12:00pm ET / 16:00 UTC we will be returning Logbook of The World? (LoTW?) to service*. As work progressed on the network, some users
By W0AYE Ben Wussow · #307 ·
Locked Mesh Networking local communications
The topic of this essay is Meshtastic, an open source suite of programs designed to communicate using LoRa as the modulation type and mesh as the methodology. Although it not Ham radio directly, it's
By N0QBH Mike Berg · #306 ·
Locked DARC Room Bridge change
*This was forwarded to me from Rick N0BJN and may be useful to anyone connecting to the DARC Room using YSF through a Hotspot. Hi
Locked Re: Winlink temporary gateway N0QBH-10
Winlink Gateway W0AYE-10 is back on the air near Olivia while Ben tests it. I've taken N0QBH-10 down in anticipation of moving W0AYE-10 VARA-FM Winlink Gateway to the 400' HHS site once testing is
By N0QBH Mike Berg · #304 ·
Locked Tall Winlink
I'm kind of excited to announce the club has been given the go ahead to shift our packet radio station on the 400' HHS tower to a Winlink Gateway running VARA-FM (callsign W0AYE-10). I was able to
By N0QBH Mike Berg · #303 ·
Locked Re: Line of sight communications...
Mike,, Pretty cool, considering what had to be overcome. Anyway! Those days are gone. But never forgotten. PTSD never goes away, Like the death of a loved one, or a friend, you just get used to
By WR0RR Randy Rethlake · #302 ·
Locked Re: Line of sight communications...
A couple of years after it was going, Roger W0WUG (sk) got some propagation modeling software to test and review for one of the industry magazines. We plugged in the data for the path from my QTH to
By N0QBH Mike Berg · #301 ·
Locked Re: Line of sight communications...
Interesting Mike, Remember when we built the Vampire Link on UHF? 446.125 MHZ. I think it was, we were so gun-ho on getting the link up, in retrospect, in the beginning, I wonder how much we thought
By WR0RR Randy Rethlake · #300 ·
Locked Line of sight communications...
Considering our VHF and up communications are normally line of sight between the transmitter and receiver, here's why DX without enhanced propagation is so hard.
By N0QBH Mike Berg · #299 ·