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NS2B > ALL 21.05.19 04:00l 180 Lines 5129 Bytes #999 (0) @ USA
BID : 28071_NS2B
Read: GUEST
Subj: PCL Packet Net Summary for May 20, 2019
Path: IW8PGT<CX2SA<N9PMO<NS2B
Sent: 190521/0156Z 28071@NS2B.#WNY.NY.USA.NOAM BPQ6.0.18
PCL Packet Net Summary for May 20, 2019
Checkins:
NS2B Bob Penfield, NY
WX4QZ Daryl Little Rock, AR
N9LCF Gene Fremont, IN
N3FIX Eric York Haven, PA
VA7RBP Rick Castlegar, BC
VE7TCP Jim Surrey, BC (in and out)
KF5JRV Scott Huntsville, AR
KD5TCY Jackie Huntsville, AR (relay checkin)
Commentary:
WX4QZ
1) Severe storms out of here for the moment, but threat remains into
Wednesday, then the heat and humidity arrives.
Told a ham in the Memphis area (from a message area on the BBS) about the
PCL Net...may get a new member soon.
Wondering if we'd take the night off for Memorial Day.
Recovering from a fall at the QTH last Wednesday.
2) Decided to let NS2B put in his own comments to the scribe.
Running the heat overnight and the AC in the daytime.
Thanks to N3FIX for the words on recovering from the fall.
Fine business on the senior center ham station. Wish the purists would
realize that later in life, not every ham can have access to RF.
The ham in Memphis was pleased when told he could access the net via his
laptop and wi-fi.
My Mom took a fall at the nursing home again, not sure how much longer
she'll last. After she's gone, there's a whole set of new challenges.
N9LCF
1) Weather the main topic again. Storms not in my area, but we got rain
again, and the farmers haven't been able to finish spring planting.
Apologies to Rick. We were going to run some MT63-1000L on 80 meters, but
I failed to have time to try it.
We'll be holding the interoperability net again Tuesday evening around
3.570, or so +/- QRM
I splurged and spent my cigarette money and purchased a B square
terminating dipole antenna and it arrived today. Since I don't smoke, I
manage to use that account for an excuse to purchase some toys.
2) We are planning to move down a bit for the net. Try looking in the
3.570 to 3.577 area for us depending on QRM. You can't miss the
distinctive waterfall pattern of MT63-1000L.
We will in the future possibly experiment with some other modes. One we
want to test out is OLIVIA, and after we get a good group on the net, we
may try OLIVIA and some other modes. But for now, we'll sign in using the
MT63-1000L mode.
As for the terminated dipole antenna, not sure when I can get it up. I
have nesting OSPREY'S on my tower, and they get real ugly when someone
starts climbing the tower. A neighbor bought a drone a couple years back,
and was atempting to video the nest, and the OSPREY'S attacked the drone
and took it down. I may have to wait till they leave to head south for the
winter. They normally leave around Labor Day Weekend.
It's hard to believe that summer has arrived, and the sun is now slowing
going down in the daylight hours for winter.
N3FIX
1) I've been busy. It has been a few weeks since I was able to join in.
The tasks are plentiful, and none of them involve radio.
Sorry to hear about Daryl's fall.
Gene, that MT63 has some great forward error correction (FEC). It's none
too fast, but it gets the job done with lots of noise.
This wekeend was our open house at the senior center. We had table set up
for all kinds of different aspects of the hobby. The station was open for
all to tour. It was just an idea a year ago, now it is reality. Any
authorized ham can come to the center and operate the station. It's VHF
all mode, UHF/VHF FM, and all HF, except 160 meters. The guys are very
proud of their accomplishment, and the open house yieleded at least 5
people who were very interested in the hobby. A few inactive hams, and
some new people. It was worth all the effort to put on the event.
So watch for the KC3LGV group station on the air September House Senior
Center in York, Pennsylvania.
2) All I can say is that those bird attacks can be nasty. I remember when
my grandson wanted a closer look at that hummingbird net. That got ugly.
VA7RBP
1) Weather here has been cloudy. 60's rain off and on, and the river
beside me is holding steady...so far.
Gene, no problem with meeting up, please confirm 3570 for the
interoperability net, although I wasn't able to pick it up (weak antenna).
I sorta caught it on a Philly web SDR.
I replaced the RG-58 coax to my 20/40/80 meter mini dipole with RG-8,
maybe??
Not a lot accomplished this week. Spent most of the time on FT-8 20
meters, and today, I went up to 10 meters, and had a flurry of activity.
No international action, though, but nice to see something on the upper HF
band.
2) I'm looking forward to making another attempt at MT63-1000L on 3570++
tomorrow night. We'll see what happens. Hello to Jim, VE7TCP.
KF5JRV
Missed Round 1
2) Coming through the HEMET packet switch tonight. I had a server problem,
and HEMET was the first node to connect via AXIP.
We spent the weekend automating the garden watering. We found some
oscillating sprinklers that were adjustable, so we just water the garden
area. This will save Jackie about 30 minutes a day. We are looking at a
sprinkler controller that is wifi, that actually reads the weather from
the internet and waters accordingly. Very 21st century.
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