Upon reaching home from the club meeting tonight,? I was hearing "strange doings" on the repeater.. An almost dead carrier.. 3-5 seconds with a single "go Ahead" beep.? If I keyed the repeater I got a double beep "go ahead" beep indicating the repeater was on the internet.. Single go ahead beep shoul dbe when we are in local area mode- not on Blind hams.
Anyhow I went to AllStar Link | Node List
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and looked up the blind hams network.. We usually connect to node 50631X... X being 5 one of many portals based on our geographical location.Since we're in Wichita the closest is 5- Plano TX and it is not there.. Allstar is indicating it's off the "air" since 00:49 zulu 10/25
I also did this with my SHARI hot spot and found that when either the repeater or the hotspot was connected to 506315... we'd get the almost dead carrier burst for 3-5 seconds..
So it must be on the internet...
We should connect to 506315 5 being Plano Texas.
The Allstar node list shows active nodes?0- Freemont Ca.1- Newark, NJ2- Ottawa Ontario Canada
3-London, UK
4-Sidney NWT
5- NOT ACTIVE---- Down for some reason.. last ping 00:49 10/25
6- Test bench N2DYI7- Newark, NJ again.
We are now connected to 0 - Fremont, Ca and I am not hearing the 3-5 second almost dead carrier with a single go ahead beep...
I did hear a "static burst" on both my Shari and Freemont on the W0VFW repeater and it is 22 miles away from my QTH..?
I did put my Shari on 1 Newark and the W0VFW repeater on 0 Fremont CA and I heard the static buzz 1 second long with a single courtesy tone.. So something in the Blind Hams network is not perfect..
I am going to send a copy of this post to? Patrick, N2DYI to see if he can fill me in... I'm glad it isn't us... But I'm not sure. Pat N2DYI knows he can shut us down if were the problem.
Larry W8LM
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Larry Macionski