Upcoming Technician/General Course at Seattle American Red Cross

From PNWVHF reflector - http://groups.google.com/group/PNWVHFS

The American Red Cross Communications Team will be holding a License
Exam Preparation Course for the Technician and General Class Amateur
Radio Licenses. The course is open to people without a license and
those seeking to upgrade to General.

Class Starts: 11/2/2010
Class Night: Tuesdays from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Special Optional Study Day: 12/5/2010
Class Ends: 12/7/2010 with a licensing exam
Location: Seattle chapter of the American Red Cross 1900 25th Avenue
South, Seattle, WA 98144

Space Limited to 20 Students

Course Fees: $10.00 for the course, $15.00 for licensing exam, and
students must obtain their own licensing manuals prior to the first
class (www.arrl.org, or www.amazon.com)

Register with Kevin Kopp at training@seattleredcross.org or call 206
720-5296 ext. 13624

Questions may be sent to David Okrent at dokrent@usa.net.

D-STAR WORKSHOP RETURNS TO FEDERAL WAY

Back by popular demand! Another D-STAR workshop is being presented in Federal Way on Saturday November 20th from 9am to 5pm at the City of Federal Way Community Center. Topics presented at the workshop include "Getting Started with D-STAR", "Gateways, Reflectors, & Ratflectors", Northwest D-STAR Repeaters, and various hands on labs. John Davis-WB4QDX will be the keynote speaker for the workshop. Coffee and snacks will be provided throughout the workshop in addition to lunch. Door prizes! Cost of this D-STAR Workshop is $35 per person, with discounts for folks signing up prior to October 25th and parties of five or more. Seats are limited to 100 attendees.

To register for this upcoming D-STAR Workshop, please visit the Federal Way Amateur Radio Club's web site (http://fwarc.org) and click on the D-STAR logo.

Widest distribution of this e-mail is requested.

Mike McCoy-N7VWD
Web Master FWARC
n7vwd@fwarc.org

[network105] Just a reminder on packet parameters

From: <network105-owner@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:40 PM
Subject: [network105] Just a reminder on packet parameters
To: network105@yahoogroups.com

Welcome to our newest members!

I usually send out a reminder every so often just with a few guidelines to make sure we're all on the same page with parameters and network operation. Everything is covered in detail in Burt's intro text which is emailed to you on joining and also available in our files section.

Here's a list of HF Packet parameters we find most successful:

HB: 300
PACLEN: 60
MAXFRAME: 1
FRACK: 5
DWAIT: 0

If you have a more advanced TNC then also set these:-

PPERSIST: ON
SLOTTIME: 10
PERSIST: 63

If you are using sound card packet (e.g. AGWPE, MultiPSK, MixW) then
definitely check the parameters as most are at the default values for
1200 baud packet.

We use the following SSID convention:

-1: Personal Maildrops (PBBS)
-2: Cross-port digipeater (known as a "gateway" on Kantronics TNCs)
-7: Node e.g. NetRom, KA-Node, K-Net, AEA Gateway Node e.t.c.,

Also when beaconing your info please make sure that you reference
"Network 105" NOT "NET105". NET105 is currently a node alias for
VE1FYI and confusion results.

Our beacons should be of a similar format to the following:

For KA-nodes, AEA gateway nodes etc
Network 105: K7TMG-1/B K7TMG-2/G K7TMG-7/N REPUBLIC, WA [DN08PR]

For NetRom/K-Net nodes then add your node alias too:
Network 105: K7TMG-1/B K7TMG-2/G WA105:K7TMG-7/N REPUBLIC, WA [DN08PR]

It's very useful to put in your grid locator for those with rotatable antennas!

Remember node aliases are coordinated so before bringing a NetRom/K-Net node on-air then check in this group first.

Thanks to all that make Network 105 a great place to hang out (when there's no WW RTTY contests!)

73
Sholto
K7TMG

Network 105 HF Nodes Map:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/network105/app/placesmap/view/map?count=100&page=1

VHF Neighbor Nodes Map:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/network105/app/placesmap3/view/map?count=100&page=1

Another 30 Meters APRS Test Starting on Wed 22 Sept

Update to the original posting. Here's the spots of WA8LMF-63 heard
by WA7NWP-63 this morning:

20100922141945,WA8LMF-63>APSK63,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3412.21N/11858.84W>Mobile!
20100922142544,WA8LMF-63>APSK25,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3413.25N/11905.43W>
20100922143546,WA8LMF-63>APSK25,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3415.55N/11915.18W>
20100922143952,WA8LMF-63>APSK63,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3417.01N/11919.12W>Mobile!
20100922145050,WA8LMF-63>APSK25,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3422.60N/11928.69W>
20100922145456,WA8LMF-63>APSK63,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3424.25N/11931.86W>Mobile!
20100922145552,WA8LMF-63>APSK25,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3424.42N/11932.85W>
20100922150052,WA8LMF-63>APSK25,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3425.31N/11936.80W>
20100922150554,WA8LMF-63>APSK25,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3424.99N/11938.50W>
20100922151002,WA8LMF-63>APSK63,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3425.00N/11938.55W>Mobile!
20100922151504,WA8LMF-63>APSK63,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3425.00N/11938.55W>Mobile!
20100922151556,WA8LMF-63>APSK25,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3425.00N/11938.55W>
20100922152005,WA8LMF-63>APSK63,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3425.00N/11938.55W>Mobile!
20100922152058,WA8LMF-63>APSK25,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3425.00N/11938.55W>
20100922152508,WA8LMF-63>APSK63,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3425.00N/11938.55W>Mobile!
20100922160612,WA8LMF-63>APSK25,qAS,WA7NWP-60:=3426.41N/11944.59W>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bill V WA7NWP <wa7nwp@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:33 PM
Subject: Fwd: Another 30 Meters APRS Test Starting on Wed 22 Sept
To: nwaprssig <nwaprssig@nwaprs.info>

Time to fire up the fldigi software again...  Got it working yet Curt?
 There's at least 8 hours until Stephen leaves so you have lots of
debugging time...

I'd imagine the rest of us will use the tried and tested
APRS-Messenger..   :-)     I would like to try out the SCS software
AFSK 300 baud packet decoder that runs at the same time - but I'm not
going to lose any of my sleep tonight to get it going...

73
Bill - WA7NWP

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2@aol.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:25 PM
Subject: [aprssig] Another 30 Meters APRS Test Starting on Wed  22 Sept
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org>

 I am departing on another three-day road trip around California and
will be running the various flavors of 30 meters APRS again.

This trip will take me and my girl friend up the CA coast from Los
Angeles to the scenic Big Sur coast south of the Monterey area the
first day (Wed 22 Sept).  We will overnight in the actual village of
Big Sur.    Current plans are to depart L.A. around 6 AM local
(Pacific Daylight) -- 1300 UTC  .

The next day (Thursday 23 Sept) we will cross CA west-to-east, from
the coast to Yosemite Nat Park in the central Sierra Nevadas. This
night we will stay inside the park in the Yosemite Valley.

The following day (Friday 24 Sept) will have us driving up to the
Yosemite high country on the Tioga Road, and crossing over the Sierras
and down the eastern slope to Lee Vining and Mono Lake, then down
US-395 back to Los Angeles.

There are many hundreds of miles with no VHF APRS coverage at all on
this itinerary, so it should be an interesting test for HF.   On the
last trip, I used my large W6HIQ "Hi-Q" screwdriver antenna on 30M.
This time I will be using the considerably lower-profile Yaesu
ATAS-100 "mini-screwdriver" antenna.

As I did last time, calls will be:

WA8LMF (no SSID)       2M VHF
WA8LMF-2        30 meters classic AX.25 FSK
WA8LMF-63     30 meters PSK63 and GMSK250

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--

Stephen H. Smith    wa8lmf (at) aol.com
EchoLink Node:      WA8LMF  or 14400    [Think bottom of the 2M band]
Skype:        WA8LMF
Home Page:          http://wa8lmf.net

=====  Vista & Win7 Install Issues for UI-View and Precision Mapping =====
   http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/UIview_Notes.htm#VistaWin7

*** HF APRS over PSK63 ***
  http://wa8lmf.net/APRS_PSK63/index.htm

"APRS 101"  Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating
 http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths

https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig

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Is this working? It's been a long time. Now that the wiki is back I'm finding a need for blog postings longer then 140 characters.