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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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W0AYE Ben Wussow
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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 (
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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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
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W0AYE Ben Wussow
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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
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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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
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W0AYE Ben Wussow
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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
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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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
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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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
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WR0RR Randy Rethlake
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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
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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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
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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.
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Re: 1st Annual Minnesota Parks On The Air 6/8/2024
On my way out I had to slow way down and watch them goats go to work.
I read about the program and figured they were either desperate or had money to burn.
Seeing how those goats attacked and chewed
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Winlink temporary gateway N0QBH-10
Due to an outage involving the Willmar EOC W0AYE-10 Winlink gateway, I have put my backup gateway on line here at my Ringo Lake QTH.
Operationally the same VARA FM and the frequency is still 145.070.
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Re: 1st Annual Minnesota Parks On The Air 6/8/2024
It was kind of funny to watch how fast her demeanor changed when she realized that it was free admission weekend and that's why no one had State Park stickers. Both she and the head ranger showed up
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W0AYE Ben Wussow
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Re: 1st Annual Minnesota Parks On The Air 6/8/2024
W0AYE mobile HF station at Sibley's Mount Tom parking lot.
A dutiful Ranger's assistant had to be reminded today was get in free day - she had the pad in hand...
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N0QBH Mike Berg
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Re: 2024Antique Car Run 8/10/2024
Yes, they are aware of the PL tone.
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W0AYE Ben Wussow
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Re: 2024Antique Car Run 8/10/2024
I gave it to them last year. and they use the Meeker 147.300 as they move
East
<ace.bonnema@...> wrote:
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Re: 2024Antique Car Run 8/10/2024
Maybe a stupid question here. ?I know they have used the repeater in the past. ?Are they aware of the ‘new’ PL tone?
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KB0MNU Ace Bonnema
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