K5TAL NET REPORT FOR JAN 15

Year 3, Week 42
Jan 15, 2020

The K5TAL net on 80 meters was opened at 6:30 pm (0030z) on 3.829 mhz and had 11 check-ins. Band conditions on 3.829 were terrible; completely lost the band at about 0040z.

WV5Q DON POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC, PUFL
KB5AGW TERRI POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC, PUFL
W5DFC ERNIE POST 68, BRANDON, MS, TALARC
KF4FMQ MIKE POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
W8LAT LARRY POST 173, THREE RIVERS, MI, TALARC, PUFL
KB4TC TONY POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, POST CMDR, TALARC
KY4KD KEN POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
K4FT JOHN POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
AF6MB HAROLD POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
*KB5NMK TOMMY UNKNOWN AFFILIATION
AJ5P LESTER LAUREL, MS, SWL VIA N4DKD.COM

* INDICATES FIRST-TIME CHECK-IN

Announcements:

1. The next American Legion Amateur Radio special event station will commemorate the 101st birthday of The American Legion. The special event, using the club call of K9TAL will be held on March 14 beginning at 1300 ET and ending at 1900 ET. Full info and frequencies are at www.legion.org/hamradio.

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. The net is 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 www.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. 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 use to 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.

For God and Country
Don Rand WV5Q
President K5TAL