i have extra radio and loop df antenna extra baofeng to pl antenna adapters?
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Fox Hunt tomorrow (Sunday) at 2:30pm. Frequency will be 145.300Mhz. We can communicate info as needed on the 444.425 repeater, which will also make it to the 145.250 repeater. I find the 444.425 around town is pretty easily reached from a portable from within
the city limits of West Plains, which happens to be where the fox will be located!
Hope everyone can join us for the fun! If you have questions or comments, please chime in!
Eric
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Fox Hunt tomorrow (Sunday) at 2:30pm. Frequency will be 145.300Mhz. We can communicate info as needed on the 444.425 repeater, which will also make it to the 145.250 repeater. I find the 444.425 around town is pretty easily reached from a portable from within the city limits of West Plains, which happens to be where the fox will be located!
Hope everyone can join us for the fun! If you have questions or comments, please chime in!
Eric
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IF YOU ARE WAITING ON YOUR LICENSE PLEASE CHECK YOUR FRN NUMBER AT THE FCC PAY YOUR FCC FEE
TERRY N0WJH
LET ANYONE YOU TESTED WITH KNOW
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Received a message from Fred Olsen this morning that he had received his call sign!! Everyone waiting should probably check!!
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Received a message from Fred Olsen this morning that he had received his call sign!! Everyone waiting should probably check!!
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In case you missed it, HH has simplified our numbers and the old numbers will be deactivated in under a month. We must make changes in order for our HH phones to continue working.
Following is the notice from HH:
We are writing to you to let you know that Hamshack Hotline is migrating away from 10-digit extension numbers and replacing them with 7-digit extension numbers.
This means that all existing 10-digit extensions are being converted to 7-digits.
For example, if your current extension number is '6100000125', your new extension number will be '6100125'.
Your new 7-digit extension number has already been created on the HHUS server and is ready for use!
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Here is what you will need to do:
For users that have an IAX2 trunk extension:
You will need to modify your setup, and remove three of the zeros from the middle of your 10-digit USERNAME so it becomes a 7-digit number.
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For users with a hard phone:
In order to use your new extension, you will need to re-provision your phone.
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Please remember that re-provisioning your phone will erase any manual changes and customization you have done. So you may have to re-enter custom changes after re-provisioning.
For those who are savvy enough, you can skip auto-provisioning and go into your phones UI, locate your extension number field, and remove three of the zeros from the middle of your 10-digit extension number, making it a 7-digit number and then save those settings. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE PASSWORD FIELD.
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For all users:
You will have 30 days to change over to your new 7-digit extension number.
We will deactivate all 10-digit extensions on the HHUS server 30 days from today.
Phone book and map updates have already been made.
We truly hope the new 7-digit numbers will be easier to remember and make using Hamshack Hotline more enjoyable.
Should you still have any questions please login to your Help-Desk account and create a General Inquiry service ticket.
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Thank you,
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The Hamshack Hotline Team
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ARES Net tonight 7:00pm on the 145.250 repeater.?
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More hope that we’ll see some new call signs issued soon!?
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hoped for update this afternoon keep everyone posted?
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Terry received an update today from the Laurel VEC Coordinator that the the ARRL VEC has uploaded a small number of applications to the FCC today. The small number of 6!! This isn’t much, but is hope that their recovery has began.?
Thanks for keeping up on this Terry!
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Terry received an update today from the Laurel VEC Coordinator that the the ARRL VEC has uploaded a small number of applications to the FCC today. The small number of 6!! This isn’t much, but is hope that their recovery has began.?
Thanks for keeping up on this Terry!
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Great! We’ll get you teamed up with someone!
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I would love to participate! ?I have never done a Fox Hunt and my only equipment is a handheld with stock rubber duck.
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On May 27, 2024, at 9:36?PM, Eric Presser - KD0CEN via groups.io <eric.presser@...> wrote:
Fox Hunt, this Sunday, June 2 at 2:30. The fox will be somewhere in the city limits of West Plains. If you’d like to participate and don’t have the needed equipment or not sure how to get started, please post on here. We have plenty of participants willing to help you and loan you equipment. Don’t miss out on the fun! You don’t have to be licensed to participate as you’ll only be receiving. If you have questions, please ask!?
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Fox Hunt, this Sunday, June 2 at 2:30. The fox will be somewhere in the city limits of West Plains. If you’d like to participate and don’t have the needed equipment or not sure how to get started, please post on here. We have plenty of participants willing to help you and loan you equipment. Don’t miss out on the fun! You don’t have to be licensed to participate as you’ll only be receiving. If you have questions, please ask!?
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ARES Meeting Tuesday Night
ARES Meeting Tuesday Night 6pm at the Howell County EOC.
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I HAVE BEEN CALLING THE ARRL there are not bothering to answer the phone i will keep trying as well as looking at the arrl web site
for any updates .,,,
and an alt testing vec? i found one one talked with the area 10 manager on the phone they sound good
i have to sch a zoom call to go over the software with him
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Kit building today at 1pm at the Battery Station. Hopefully you ordered a kit and are able to join us. If not, stop in and say hi and see what everyone else is doing!!
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i also have spare handheld d.f. loop extra 2 meter tape measure beam glad to share and or ride with anyone still think coffee and or ice cream afterward would be fun?
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I’m the hunt master this time, so I guess I can’t help anyone hunt. However, I’d be happy to loan my antenna, radio and attenuator to someone interested in giving it a try that doesn’ have the equipment to use. I can get it to you before the hunt and leave
my wife to keep an eye on the fox.?
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I’m the hunt master this time, so I guess I can’t help anyone hunt. However, I’d be happy to loan my antenna, radio and attenuator to someone interested in giving it a try that doesn’ have the equipment to use. I can get it to you before the hunt and leave my wife to keep an eye on the fox.?
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Don't forget we have the first Fox Hunt of the year scheduled for June 2nd @ 2:30. The fox will be hidden somewhere within the city limits of West Plains. You do NOT have to be a currently licensed Ham Radio operator to participate as you will not be required to transmit. Anyone new to Fox Hunting who would like to ride-along with another club member - please speak up! Seasoned club members who are willing to Elmer our new members for this Fox Hunt are asked to throw your name in the hat too!
73,
KB?PHX
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anyone who has not tried echolink it well worth the WORLDWIDE REPEATER ACCESS IT PROVIDES tech license $1,00 to confirm your callsign terry n0wjh
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Last Thursday, Mike and I found a time we could both go to the 250 repeater site and work on linking it to the 444.425. I had been stumped several times but thought we might be a solution. Armed with a freshly built cable, we tried again. We had it functional,
but still wasn't convinced the issue we were having wouldn't lock up both repeaters like it did before. So we left once again to go back to the drawing board.?
After we had left, I was looking through a manual and found a setting in the repeater programming software that looked promising. I made contact with Mike that evening, remoted into his programming computer and we found the setting. Would this be the fix?
Mike found a few spare moments to return to the site Friday and blow the new programming into the repeater and power the link radio back on. So far, so good! We are linked full time between the 444.425 and 145.250.
Now, the next steps... In what spare time I've had this weekend, I've been trying to interface the Arcom controller to connect to a Yaesu Repeater like the 146.940. So far, I've had no luck. The Yaesu repeaters have an automatic mode selection to allow for
analog FM or fusion c4fm digital modulation. Because of this, interfacing to a repeater controller is a real pain. I think Yaesu designed these repeaters with the idea that everyone would use them for Fusion only, but that didn't happen. Arcom makes a device
to add to their controllers that make this less cumbersome, but at a price tag of $175. However.... I have another possible solution that I think should link the 940 in without spending that $175. It did require I order a $15 adapter I didn't currently have,
and that should be here later this week. Once I have that, we'll try plan B, and I'm optimistic that'll be a good working solution! More to come on that in the next week or so.
After that, and because of the way we ended up connecting the 250 repeater, we have a controller for the 444.425 repeater that will allow us to enable Allstar and Echolink!! The only parts needed are a Raspberry Pi4 (I have one brand new in box that I will
donate), a power supply and case for the Pi (approximately $15 on Amazon) and a Repeater Builder Rim-Lite interface ($50) that will connect the Pi to the Arcom Controller. If you're not familiar with Allstar or Echolink, Allstar is an awesome way of connecting
any Allstar enabled node or repeater to another via the internet. It's really slick. You can also download an app on your phone that will allow you to connect to our node and use your phone as a push-to-talk device on our linked repeaters. Echolink isn't quite
as robust as Allstar, but also has an app or computer program allowing access via the internet. So, we should be able to bring Echolink / Allstar to the repeaters for $65 since I already have the Pi! A worthwhile investment if you ask me!! I'll work to provide
an Allstar / Echolink demonstration at the next monthly club meeting in June!?
Try out the linked repeaters (only the 2 currently)! Key up or radio and give it a second before you start talking. Anytime you have a link, it takes several hundred milliseconds for the repeater to key, key the link radio, and do the same thing on the repeaters
further down the chain. It's not a lot, but will certainly cause everyone to miss your first couple words or callsign if you don't give it a second.?
Have a great week!
Eric, KD0CEN
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Eric Presser - KD?CEN
JJ - KB?PHX
Dawn KF?PUP