K5TAL NET REPORT FOR SEP 4 2019

Year 3, Week 23
Sep 4, 2019

The K5TAL Net on 80 meters was opened at 6:30 pm (23:30) on 3.829 mhz and had 13 check-ins. Band conditions on 3.829 were great. EchoLink was in operation and had 1 check-in from W8LAT who was also on 80 m. D-Star was on REF50C but had no check-ins. It pays to be patient and let the bands come in. It was really great to hear Larry, W8LAT from Three Rivers, MI, and K4FT, K3KZU and KF4FMQ without a relay.

KA5DON DON Post 1992. Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC, PUFL
KB5AGW TERRI Post 1992. Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC, PUFL
K5CUB LEE Post 1992, Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC
K4FT JOHN Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
KY4KD KEN Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
KB5PCI JIM Post 119, Gulfport, MS, TALARC
W8LAT LARRY Post 170, Three Rivers, MI, TALARC
W5TUT ED Post 49, Hattiesburg, MS, TALARC
K3KZU DENNIS Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
K6SWC STEVE Post 186, Springhill, FL TALARC
KF4FMQ MIKE Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
WB0YSX TIM Post 186, Springhill, FL TALARC

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

Announcement: EchoLink Conference Node “TALARC” is available daily and is open to all hams.
American Legion National Officers in place for the 2019-2020 Legion Year was read directly from the September 2019 Announcements.

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.