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Monthly club meeting is tonight at 6PM. Hope everyone can be there!!

Field Day is quickly approaching, and we'll be finalizing plans at the monthly club meeting Tuesday June 11. Below is a link to to the rules for this years events. Look over them when you have a chance. It will probably help us make plans at the meeting. https://contests.arrl.org/ContestRules/Field-Day-Rules.pdf Eric, KD0CEN

ARES Net tonight at 7:00PM on the 145.250 repeater!

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

I have been asked about the delay in receiving call signs from the FCC for the students that tested in our class. Terry called the ARRL, which is the VEC we use, who confirmed what I feared. The ARRL had a cyber attack last week which has rendered most, maybe all, of their computer systems inoperable. They’ve been very vague with sharing details, but hope it’s resolved soon. At this point, I think the only thing we can do is wait a little while longer. Terry and I discussed the possibility of maybe trying to file the paperwork through another VEC, but at this point that might duplicate things and who knows what else. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and wish there was something we could do, but think holding tight just a little longer might be the best option we have. Terry is going to continue to call them seeking time frames and possible solutions. I’m sure an organization the size of the ARRL is getting overran with questions and vigorously working on solutions. Eric KD0CEN

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! 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. Click here for Trunk setup instructions: For users with a hard phone: In order to use your new extension, you will need to re-provision your phone. Click here for phone provisioning instructions: 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. 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. Thank you, The Hamshack Hotline Team

ARES Net tonight 7:00pm on the 145.250 repeater.

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!

ARES Meeting Tuesday Night 6pm at the Howell County EOC.

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!!

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

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

Simplex Net tonight on 146.52. 7pm.

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/arrl-cyberattack-takes-logbook-of-the-world-offline/ For those that don't follow data breaches, these stories always grow as investigations progress because entities are typically loathe to admit breaches, let alone the details. Initial details are rarely complete and often wrong. Steve

Check out this mobile station. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lndSQ87jeYU KC0F 73

Going forward there will be stick-on name tags available at sign-in to the meetings.

Ares Net Tonight 7:00 On 145.250

The following is the ARES net control schedule for the next five weeks: May 16 Ray N0FIU May 23 Sierena KF0LQB May 30 Ryan KF0PEZ June 6 JJ KB0PHX June 13 Eric KD0CEN Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks. 73 Chris Miller KC0F Emergency Coordinator Howell County District G Amateur Radio Emergency Service? linuxgeek98@...

Here is a link for info to the SMARC Hamfest June 1st. https://smarc.org/smarc-hamfest-ticket-sales/ If you'd like to carpool or convoy up, reply to this thread and we'll figure something out. Tickets are $7 in advance at the link above or $10 at the door.