K5TAL Net Report for 6 NOV 2019

Year 3, Week 32
Nov 6, 2019

The K5TAL Net on 80 meters was opened at 6:30 pm (23:30) on 3.829 mhz and had 10 check-ins. Band conditions on 3.829 week short and long, with static and QRM. EchoLink was in operation and had 1 check-in.

WV5Q DON Post 1992. Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC, PUFL
KB5AGW TERRI Post 1992. Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC, PUFL
K3KZU DENNIS Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
K5CUB LEE Post 1992, Gautier-Vancleave, MS, TALARC
KB5PCI JIM Post 119, Gulfport, MS, TALARC
W8LAT LARRY Post 170, Three Rivers, MI, TALARC Via EchoLink
KB4TC TONY Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
K4FT JOHN Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
KY4KD KEN Post 46, Danville, KY, TALARC
KN4JND JASON Non-Vet, Arcadia, FL

Announcements:

1. TALARC Veterans Day Special Event on Monday, Nov. 11 starting at 1 p.m. till 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Event will be using the call sign N9V along with N9V-2, 3 and 4. Tune to 7.225 or 14.275, 147.375 Repeater if in the Indianapolis area, or IRLP Node 9735 or EchoLink Crossrds Conference Node. All info is on the N9V page at QRZ.com.

2. Legion HQ is looking for a TALARC club interested in serving as a NCS for a monthly TALARC net. Contact Josh KD9DHX at K90TAL@legion.org.

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, wv5q@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.