I am recovering from Shingles on my face and Bell's Palsey, so speaking is not my forte. Nor is swallowing, drinking, or blinking. The entire left side of my face is kaput!!.. Attempting Re-boot daily.. 90% of the people who get Bell's Palsy recover.
I muted myself at the meeting because of feed back on my telephone. I have resent invoices, and attempted to text Pat KC?ZRY during the meeting to inpput I was actually.
I Built 4 ALLSTAR HOT SPOTS today.. They are available for sale. There operate identically to the one on W?VFW- VHF repeater. The beauty of the ALLSTAR Links, is that they have CD quality Full Duplex audio. quite an advancement over ECHOLINK or ILRP.. which by the way is incorporated into ALLSTAR.
By building- buying or owning your own ALLSTAR link, it enables you to connect to 14,000 plus other nodes ll over the world. This lends itself to our mission, helping Veterans, Military ad their Families.
W?VFW VHF repeater is normally linked to th eBlind Hams Talk Group Allstar #50631. There are nets on Tuesday, Thursday,and Saturdays both Morning and evening. It is not unusual to hear callsigns from foreign countries or other states. A great place to listen and learn.?
By buying your own ALLSTAR HOT SPOT you can control it and it's many options. To access a Talk Group -ROOM- Reflector or Node.. All basically the same thing.. It is as simple as dialing a phone. and we all know how to do that. Each room has a Node Number- it's phone number- It can be just a hot spot, or a club repeater, or an entire network.. Some Nodes, are defined geographically, like- South Carolina, or a city, like Hollywood, or a country like England. Some nodes are specialities- Blind Hams Talk Group, or model Rail Roaders...
Once the VFW opens up again, I may have technical meetings regarding ALLSTAR, as this opens up a wonderful facit of Amateur Radio we all can benefit from.
If anyone is interested in ALLSTAR please email me... I will say digesting the internet postings can be somewhat daunting.
Larry Macionski