Year 3, Week 46 Feb 12, 2020 The K5TAL net on 80 meters was opened at 6:30 pm (0030z) on 3.829 mhz and had 10 check-ins. Band conditions on 3.829 were difficult with storms throughout MS causing static crashes, along with normal QRM and even some QRN. WV5Q DON POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC, PUFL KB5AGW TERRI POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC, PUFL K5CUB LEE POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC KY4KD KEN POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
Year 3, Week 46
Feb 12, 2020
The K5TAL net on 80 meters was opened at 6:30 pm (0030z) on 3.829 mhz and had 10 check-ins. Band conditions on 3.829 were difficult with storms throughout MS causing static crashes, along with normal QRM and even some QRN.
WV5Q DON POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC, PUFL
KB5AGW TERRI POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC, PUFL
K5CUB LEE POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC
KY4KD KEN POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
W8LAT LARRY POST 173, THREE RIVERS, MI, TALARC, PUFL
KB5PCI JIM POST 119, GULFPORT, MS, TALARC
K4FT JOHN POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
K3KZU DENNIS POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
WV1Q AL MS DEPT, HEIDELBURG, MS, TALARC
KF4FMQ MIKE POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
* INDICATES FIRST-TIME CHECK-IN
Announcements:
1. The next American Legion Amateur Radio special event station will commemorate the 101st birthday of The American Legion. The special event, using the club call of K9TAL will be held on March 14 beginning at 1300 ET and ending at 1900 ET. Full info and frequencies are at www.legion.org/hamradio.
2. On Feb. 26 the national commander will be at Post 1992, and we will once again put him on the air during the net.
Thursdays at 7 pm CST, K5TAL hosts an all-digital net via a service called Quadnet Array (www.openquad.net). This service allows any form of digital voice to be routed so DMR users can hear D-Star and C4FM Fusion, D-Star can hear everyone, as can C4FM users. It also allows DV Dongle users to communicate likewise. The net is listed on the www.openquad.net website. If you have questions you can email me, wv5q@arrl.net, and I will do what I can to answer them. On the www.openquad.net web page (listed above) the Reflectors and Talkgroups for D-Star, DMR and Yaesu C4FM System Fusion are listed. Once you connect to any one of them, you are connected to all digital voice users. I will be using a free logging program called NetLogger that can be downloaded from netlogger.com. On Thursday before the net I will start the program and you should be able to select K5TAL from the net list. You can see the list, and know who is up next. It also has an “Almost Instant Messaging” feature you can type a message to all. Don’t forget: you can listen the HF 80 meter by going to www.n4dkd.com and enter the frequency and LSB. If you have an Apple device, there is a box to the right to enable audio for IOS.
Location for all net times was discussed and direction to www.legion.org/hamradio was provided.
For God and Country
Don Rand WV5Q
President K5TAL
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