K5TAL NET REPORT FOR OCT 16 2019

Year 3, Week 29
Oct 16, 2019

The K5TAL Net on 80 meters was opened at 6:30 pm (23:30) on 3.829 mhz and had 14 check-ins. Band conditions on 3.829 were very noisy with static; QRM EchoLink was in operation and had 0 check-ins. D-Star was on REF58B but had no check-ins.
One problem with improving 80M band conditions is hearing distant stations causing interference we could not hear during the summer. Oh well.

WV5Q DON Post 1992. Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC, PUFL
KB5AGW TERRI Post 1992. Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC, PUFL
KF4FMQ MIKE Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
W5TUT ED Post 24, Hattiesburg, MS, TALARC
K5ATW STEVE MS DPT, Vicksburg, MS, TALARC
ND5V JOEY Post 1992. Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC, PUFL
W6SOF BEN RET AF, Diamondhead, MS
KB5PCI JIM Post 119, Gulfport, MS, TALARC
W5DFC ERNIE Post 68, Brandon, MS, TALARC, PUFL
W4BNT TJ Post 42, Bartlett, TN, TALARC
K5CUB LEE Post 1992, Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC
K3KZU DENNIS Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
KY4KD KEN Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
N5QYC JOE Post 44, Harrison, AR, TALARC

Announcement:
Boy Scouts of America’s Jamboree On The Air read verbatim from Oct Net Announcements. Also, ARRL Day In The Park, Oct 19, Post 1992, Gautier, MS, and the CQ article on Post 46, Danville, KY.
Post 46 100th Anniversary Special Event. Call W4L (Working For Legionnaires) starting 19 Oct and going for 10 days on 20M and 40M. All info is on QRZ.com under W4L.

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 towww.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.