Re: [DMRTexas] Radio Balloon Launch - POSTPONED to 5/31
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Thanks for the info. This will be an interesting event.?
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Catch you on the "original social media",
Jason Hampton
*Freedom Isn't Free
N5DRI, WXCT237
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Thanks for the info!?
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Catch you on the "original social media",
Jason Hampton
*Freedom Isn't Free
N5DRI, WXCT237
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Re: Severe Outlook for Today is Enhanced
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On Fri, May 2, 2025, 7:05?AM Jim Robinson via <robinson.jimw= [email protected]> wrote: SPC has placed most of southeast Texas
under an enhanced risk (Level 3 of 5) for severe weather today and a slight
risk (Level 2 of 5) exists for excessive
rainfall.
The severe threat begins to unfold by
around 10 AM thanks to daytime heating and, at the same time, the models
show an area of PVA (lifting) moving into our area ahead of the approaching
cold front.? As PVA increases and both instability and atmospheric
shear increase, thunderstorm activity will slowly trend
upward.
By about 1 or so the cold front should
begin to push into southeast Texas and thunderstorm activity should
increase even more and is likely to remain with us until close to or after
dark.? Thanks to the cold front, however, Saturday's weather should be
much quieter.
Some of today's storms will be
training, which enhances the chance of flash flooding.? In terms of
severe potential, all risks are on the table including damaging winds,
large hail, and the possibility of a few isolated
tornadoes.
The SPC Day-1 outlook graphic is
attached.
Jim Robinson,
W5ZYX
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Severe Outlook for Today is Enhanced
SPC has placed most of southeast Texas
under an enhanced risk (Level 3 of 5) for severe weather today and a slight
risk (Level 2 of 5) exists for excessive
rainfall.
The severe threat begins to unfold by
around 10 AM thanks to daytime heating and, at the same time, the models
show an area of PVA (lifting) moving into our area ahead of the approaching
cold front.? As PVA increases and both instability and atmospheric
shear increase, thunderstorm activity will slowly trend
upward.
By about 1 or so the cold front should
begin to push into southeast Texas and thunderstorm activity should
increase even more and is likely to remain with us until close to or after
dark.? Thanks to the cold front, however, Saturday's weather should be
much quieter.
Some of today's storms will be
training, which enhances the chance of flash flooding.? In terms of
severe potential, all risks are on the table including damaging winds,
large hail, and the possibility of a few isolated
tornadoes.
The SPC Day-1 outlook graphic is
attached.
Jim Robinson,
W5ZYX
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[DMRTexas] Radio Balloon Launch - POSTPONED to 5/31
Subject: [DMRTexas] Radio Balloon Launch - POSTPONED to 5/31
? The decision has been made to postpone the balloon launch to Saturday 5/31. The driving factors of this decision are the excess amount of rain we have received in the past few days (very saturated ground here in NTX), the winds aloft pushing the predicted flight path pretty far east making the chase somewhat difficult, and the lakes/trees in the expected landing area. The only thing working in our favor was the weather this weekend.
I'll follow up about a week before the 5/31 target launch date. In the meantime, check out for details on how to get on the DMR repeater and how to receive our tracking and imaging payloads.?
73 de KE5GDB
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Dwayne Walters has some free firewood! He lost the top 30 ft. of a red oak tree in last night's storm. He can help by cutting to the desired length but has no way to split the wood. 979-676-8518 give him a text if you want to lay claim! 
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On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 5:00?AM Laura WW7OO McDonald via <bonnieclyderainy= [email protected]> wrote:
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A very important reminder
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On Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 03:45:38 PM CDT, Paul KE5ZW Gilbert via groups.io <ke5zw@...> wrote:
¡°Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts¡± Sir Winston Churchill, 1940 during the Battle For Britain...
Sent via tin can & strings
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¡°Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts¡± Sir Winston Churchill, 1940 during the Battle For Britain...
Sent via tin can & strings
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[DMRTexas] Radio Balloon Launch - Saturday May 3 @ 9:00AM
Subject: [DMRTexas] Radio Balloon Launch - Saturday May 3 @ 9:00AM
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Good evening!
The Richardson Area Balloonatics / Richardson Wireless Klub will be launching a high-altitude weather balloon this coming Saturday, weather and upper atmosphere conditions permitting. The launch will be from Aubrey (details below), just north of the DFW metroplex, but near apogee at 100,000ft we expect coverage to include most of Texas and Oklahoma, with some Arkansas and Louisiana coverage as well. The flight is expected to last around 2.5 hours (9:00AM to ~11:00AM ascent, and on the ground by noon).
We will have a special event QSL card if you receive images/tracking data from the balloon or make contact through the DMR repeater. See (and the form at the bottom) to submit for a QSL card or Worked All Payloads ("WAP") award.
Ways to participate from afar:
* Track the payloads at (look for K5RWK and KE5GDB)
* Receive SSTV pictures in real-time - 432.5 MHz / Robot 36 * Make contacts through the DMR repeater - 441.0 MHz / CC1 / TS1 / TG99 / Simplex * Listen to the KD5OUG Digi-talker on 146.52 MHz * Decode our tracking payloads - "Horus Binary v2" on 432.7 MHz and 432.8 MHz (decode using upper sideband and Horus GUI or ), K5UTD on 20m WSPR
* Watch live images stream in via Wenet at Participate in person: * Launch site will be the Greenbelt / 428 Park in Aubrey TX () * Launch prep begins at 8:00AM with a target launch time of 9:00AM * If chasing, please carpool -- we've had congestion issues before * Chase simplex is on 146.54MHz -- please bring at least an HT that can talk on 146.54 if chasing
In addition to the radio payloads, we'll have a few 360¡ã cameras onboard to record the flight.
Currently the weather forecast and expected trajectory are favorable for a launch on Saturday. I'll be sending more details regularly to [email protected] and [email protected] and a final update on Friday to this group.
We hope to see you at the launch or hear you on the repeater!
(Please forward this to any other interested clubs/groups/parties)
73 de KE5GDB
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Reminder: WCARG Breakfast
When:
Saturday, April 26, 2025
9:00am to 10:00am
(UTC-05:00) America/Chicago
Where:
Denny's, 3016 11th St, Huntsville, TX 77340
Organizer:
WCARG
[email protected]
View Event
Description:
Walker County Amateur Radio Group Breakfast.? Anyone interested in ham radio, whether licensed or not, is invited.
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Re: FT-991A TX Keyed by failed laptop docking station USB data port
Thanks for sharing. This is great information,? as many of us have 991/991A's.
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Jason Hampton
*Freedom Isn't Free
N5DRI, WXCT237
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Re: Officer Meeting Topics 04/21/2025
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 7:39?PM Laura WW7OO McDonald via <bonnieclyderainy= [email protected]> wrote:
budget/finance committee
adding things to the website
officer nominating committee
Hams Helping Hams team (tech team)?
shepherding committee to see to non radio needs (illness, etc.)
and a few other things were touched upon!
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Officer Meeting Topics 04/21/2025
budget/finance committee
adding things to the website
officer nominating committee
Hams Helping Hams team (tech team)?
shepherding committee to see to non radio needs (illness, etc.)
and a few other things were touched upon!
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Re: FT-991A TX Keyed by failed laptop docking station USB data port
Excellent Rick,
A couple of us have experienced this issue.
Russ
Found my FT-991A stuck in transmit timeout timer mode. Isolated to a failed USB data port on my laptops docking station. Moving the USB cable from the back of the 991a to the FT-710 did not affect the 710.
Moving the FT-991A USB cable to another data port on the docking station cleared the locked TX key-up issue. Also unplugging power to the USB docking station dropped the TX key-up.
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No laptop was connected to the docking station at the time nor during the above troubleshooting.
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Fail-safe: TX time-out timer, enabled by default, did its job.
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Action: Put a piece of tape over the failed data port. Buy another docking station someday.
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/Rick
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FT-991A TX Keyed by failed laptop docking station USB data port
Found my FT-991A stuck in transmit timeout timer mode. Isolated to a failed USB data port on my laptops docking station. Moving the USB cable from the back of the 991a to the FT-710 did not affect the 710.
Moving the FT-991A USB cable to another data port on the docking station cleared the locked TX key-up issue. Also unplugging power to the USB docking station dropped the TX key-up.
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No laptop was connected to the docking station at the time nor during the above troubleshooting.
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Fail-safe: TX time-out timer, enabled by default, did its job.
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Action: Put a piece of tape over the failed data port. Buy another docking station someday.
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/Rick
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Thanks to all that volunteered! ?We are forming the committee now and hope to have them up and running soon! ?Feel free to ask question!
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Russ
NR5US?
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Jason N5DRI Hampton
Rick WA2HRF Fell
Whitey K5YTA Nelson
Paul KE5ZW Gilbert
Russ NR5US Cooper