Year 4, Week 3 Apr 15, 2020 The K5TAL net on 80 meters was opened at 6:30 pm (0030z) on 3.862 MHz and had 13 check-ins. Conditions were difficult due to strong static and lightning spikes WV5Q DON POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC, PUFL KB5AGW TERRI POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC, PUFL WA5GYM ANDY NON AL, RICHLAND, MS W5DFC ERNIE POST 68, BRANDON, MS, TALARC, PUFL W5SOF BEN MS DEPT, DIAMONDHEAD, MS, TALARC W5TUT ED POST 24, HATTIESBURG, MS, TALARC
Year 4, Week 3
Apr 15, 2020
The K5TAL net on 80 meters was opened at 6:30 pm (0030z) on 3.862 MHz and had 13 check-ins. Conditions were difficult due to strong static and lightning spikes
WV5Q DON POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC, PUFL
KB5AGW TERRI POST 1992, GAUTIER, MS, TALARC, PUFL
WA5GYM ANDY NON AL, RICHLAND, MS
W5DFC ERNIE POST 68, BRANDON, MS, TALARC, PUFL
W5SOF BEN MS DEPT, DIAMONDHEAD, MS, TALARC
W5TUT ED POST 24, HATTIESBURG, MS, TALARC
W4IOD ODIS POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC
KB5PCI JIM POST 113, GULFPORT, MS, TALARC
W8LAT LARRY POST 115, THREE RIVERS, MI, TALARC via EchoLink
K4FNX MATT POST 24, HATTIESBURG, MS TALARC, PUFL
AJ5P LESTER NON VET, SWL
KY4KD KEN POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC, VIA D-STAR REF56B
K3KZU DENNIS POST 46, DANVILLE, KY, TALARC, VIA D-STAR REF56B
* INDICATES FIRST-TIME CHECK-IN
Announcements: From April Net Announcements, COVID-19 activity cancellations were read as well as the addendum announcements. Buddy Checks were encouraged to reach out, either by phone or email, to your buddies, especially those who are alone during this stay-at-home period of time.
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 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
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