Reminder - W?VFW Monthly Meeting is NEXT Tuesday - November 26th. This will probably be the most important meeting of the year.
One issue is the December meeting is Christmas Eve.. The quagmire is- December meetings historically have been Elections of Officers for the following year.
There is much to cover this next meeting. An option we have is to vote (pole)? on groups.io
Yesterday Don WB?QFR and I took a road trip to Abilene, KS? to see the Famous Union Pacific 1404 BIG BOY. I shot video of it leaving Abilene Station. We then drove to Salina after a stop at Russel Stover Factory Outlet Store. We tried to run with the train along old U.S. RT 40 but traffic jams disallowed getting ahead or to it.
I have a 5 minute video of the Big Boy leaving Abilene on my Facebook page.? There is also a video of the train running Abilene to Salina at:
You may need to join "Old and Interesting Places in Kansas". The video is worth viewing. When we arrived in Salina they were shutting down the engine for the night. Connecting fire hoses to hydrants to re-fill the water supply and there was 1 Semi fuel tanker you see filling at gas stations connecting to the Tender to refill with Diesel, along with 3 more waiting. 4 semi fuel tanker trucks!! What a fill-up!
On a personal note. I enjoyed working the ARRL November Sweepstakes Phone contest. last weekend. I installed a new Fusion Dual Bander in my Truck.? I also am "dusting off" 2 commercial UHF Ritron repeaters I have. I brought them back a year ago when I closed out my footprint in New Hampshire and sold my home there. I have applied for coordination to the Kansas Repeater Coordinator and was assigned the following repeater pair- 442.000 - 447.000.... I have plenty of options with 2 self contained repeaters, One possibility is to program both to the same frequency, but different PL's - then set up one that can be deployed for Public Service and Emergencies. OR place one on GMRS. (Old CB class A)? I am licensed as WRCD403. (500 transmitters).? I also have to assemble 5 ALLSTAR interfaces. ALLSTAR is a very formatible interface into the internet, including Echolink, and ILRP. The ALLSTAR website HAS Moved- if you want to learn more -here is the link:
Larry Macionski