K5TAL Net Report for 11 Sep 2019

Year 3, Week 24
Sep 11, 2019

The K5TAL Net on 80 meters was opened at 6:30 pm (23:30) on 3.829 mhz and had 15 check-ins. Band conditions on 3.829 were passable with a lot of QRN. EchoLink was in operation and had 2 check-ins. D-Star was on REF58B but had no check-ins. 1 check-in via SWL/email. It pays to be patient and let the bands come in.

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
AG5TT JOEY Post 1992. Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC, PUFL
W4OZA RICK Post 35, Columbus, GA, TALARC also via Echolink
K5DJW DAVE Post 80, Beaumont, MS, TALARC
K4FT JOHN Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
WA5GYM ANDY Post 37, Richland, MS, TALARC
K3KZU DENNIS Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
KY4KD KEN Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
W5DFC ERNIE Post 68. Brandon, MS, TALARC, PUFL
KB4TC TONY Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
KF4FMQ MIKE Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
K5ATW STEVE MS DPT, Vicksburg, MS, TALARC
K4FLX STEVE Post 158, Treasure Island, FL, TALARC

N2MEP STEVE Post 338, Leonardo, NJ, TALARC via Echolink and N4DKD
W8LAT LARRY Post 170, Three Rivers, MI, TALARC via Echolink

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

Announcement:
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 to 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.