September 3, 2019

Year 3, Week 22
Aug 28, 2019

The K5TAL Net on 80 meters was opened at 6:30 pm (23:30) on 3.829 mhz and had 19 check-ins. Band conditions on 3.829 were EXTREMELY difficult, with a lot of lightning crashes. EchoLink was in operation and had 2 check-ins from W4OZA, who was also on 80 m. D-Star4 was not used. The 2 meter net on the 145.11 repeater had 6 check-ins, with 1 check-in from SWL/email.

KA5DON DON Post 1992. Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC, PUFL
KB5AGW TERRI Post 1992. Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC, PUFL
W5DFC ERNIE Post 68, Brandon, MS, TALARC, PUFL
W5TUT ED Post 49, Hattiesburg, MS, TALARC
W8LAT LARRY Post 170, Three Rivers, MI, TALARC
AG5TT JOEY Post 1992. Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC, PUFL
KB5PCI JIM Post 119, Gulfport, MS, TALARC
K4FT JOHN Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
KB4TC TONY Cmdr, Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARCKY4KD
K3KZU DENNIS Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
KF4FMQ MIKE Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
WA5GYM ANDY Post 28, Richland, MS, TALARC
KY4KD KEN Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
W5SOF BEN Ret AF, Considering membership in AL
K5CUB LEE Post 1992, Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC
K5ATW STEVE MS DPT, Vicksburg, MS, TALARCKY4KD
K6SWC STEVE AL, FL, TALARC

AJ5P LESTER No Mil Svs, Laurel, MS via SWL/N4DKD

2 Meter 145.11, Vancleave, MS

K5BQJ NICK Vet, Non Member, Vancleave, MS
KI5DER JOE Unknown Affiliation, St. Martin, MS
K4DOG BRAD Post 1992, Gautier-Vancleave, MS TALARC
AC5RW RICHARD Spouse of USCG Ret, Vancleave, MS
KC5ZLV TINA Spouse of K5CUB, Vancleave, MS
KI5CGG CHRIS Unknown Affiliation, Ocean Springs, MS

Announcement: EchoLink Conference Node “TALARC” is available daily and is open to all hams.

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. This additional net will allow any licensed ham of any license class to join in on our weekly roundtable discussions. The net is now listed on the www.openquad.net website. If you have questions you can email me, KA5DON@arrl.net, and I will do what I can to answer them. On the 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. Simple as that. My radio is on 24/7 connected to the Atlanta Reflector. Give me a call to test it out. I will be using a free logging program called NetLogger that can be downloaded from netlogger.com. On Thursday before 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.