April 12, 2021

Year 5, Week 1
Apr 7, 2021

The K5TAL Net on 80 meters was opened at 7:00 pm (0000z) on 3.862 MHz and had .15 check-ins. Conditions were typical: Wednesday-evening thunderstorms and lightning crashes.

WV5Q DON MS POST 1992, VANCLEAVE, MS, TALARC, PUFL
KF4FMQ MIKE KY POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
W5JGW JEFF MS RET AF, NON LEGION
KM4EWZ ROBERT MS POST 1992 TALARC
WA5GYM ANDY MS RET MARINE, RIDGELAND, MS
W4WLF TOM MS POST 113, GULFPORT, MS TALARC
KJ4ND PETER KY POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
KB4TC TONY KY POST COMMANDER, POST 46, DANVILLE KY, TALARC
WF5T RICHARD MS UNK AFFILIATION, HARRISVILLE, MS
K4FT JOHN KY POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
KB5PCI JIM MS POST 113, GULFPORT, MS, TALARC
KY4KD KEN KY POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
K3KZU DENNIS KY POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
AJ5P LESTER MS NON VET, SWL LAUREL, MS
KB5AGW TERRI MS POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC, PUFL

Announcements: The announcement from Apr Net Announcements concerning the TALARC Net listings.
The Post 46 Wilderness Road American Legion holds a monthly D-Star Net on the first Monday of every month at 8 pm EST on Ref 56C, and EchoLink Node of KY4RW-L. Early check-ins are accepted ½ hour before net starts.
Post 275, Upper Marlboro, holds a monthly Wires-X on the 4th Saturday of every month on Room 21433 at noon EST.
The second Saturday of each month, N3TAL conducts a net starting at 1 pm ET on 15.275 and K9TAL conducts an EchoLink net at 1200 ET on *FMCA-ARC* Conference Node.
All American Legion nets and frequencies can be found at www.legion.org/hamradio.
TALARC membership is now up to 4,871 with hopeful expectations of being above 5,000 in May. Do your part: invite your ham friends to join the Legion, and TALARC.

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. 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.

For God and Country
Don Rand WV5Q
President K5TAL