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As you may have seen on the ID message on your radio. The Executive board meets every Sunday to discuss various club and technical topics.

Tucker Hurton — 2012-03-31T20:57:40Z

Meet the team at 8:30 where we will discuss this and other topics. All Members are welcome. If your not on the list, just send me an email at amsat.org

See you then.

Dave

n1fcc

Changes to the reflector system

Tucker Hurton — 2012-03-28T12:56:14Z

XRF019 is still active, and has been included, and is running on the same machine.
I have created specific channels to be used for Emergency Communications and Contesting on DCS006. I plan to move all of the local machines to DCS006B for testing and as a final home.

To see the activity on DCS006 please go to www.xreflector.net

To link to this reflector from any G4KLX gateway just hit D6B from your touch tone pad. If the machine is already linked to DCS006 but to another channel you will need to hit the # and then unkey before entering D6B.

Please start to use these machines for testing and to drive use.

At this time N1HIT's repeaters will be connected as follows

N1HIT A DCS001A
N1HIT B DCS006A
N1HIT C DCS006B

Lets give these new connections a try

Dave
N1fcc

Pending retirement of XRF019

Tucker Hurton — 2012-03-19T13:07:03Z

I am not sure if this will be the final camping spot for the
Southern NH machines, but it seems like a good place for now. Xrf019 will
continue to operate until it is determined if the DCS system is better. If
testing is successful, there may be a change.

The current status of the machines will always be available on
www.xreflector.net, but www.n1hit.org will also be a good place to find
information.

You can also send me email at amsat.org for information.

Regards

Dave

n1fcc

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We had a good meeting Saturday

Tucker Hurton — 2012-03-14T10:56:08Z

We are in the midst of some changes and wanted to let you know about some of them. The German team has started testing a new reflector system, and
I expect within a few weeks I will move us to the new system and retire XRF019. The new system uses a similar touch tone linking system as the current environment.

All of the Seacoast, Ewarn and NHIT machines with the exception of NE1DV will support the new/current linking technique.

Each of the new reflectors will have 27 channels with channel A being a multi link with interlinking with all reflectors. Reflector channels B-Z will be regionally defined.

Linking to REF and XRF reflectors will not change, but linking to the new DCS reflectors will use more digits.

REF10c= *10c
XRF19B= 19b
DCS001b= D1B
DCS001H= D108

0 = link status
# = unlink

http://xreflector.net/neu3/

This link will show the current mapping for the first three reflectors, and more will be added soon.

Over the next few days you might want to tough tone a "0" to determine where the machines are linked to. Ive had many international QSO's today, and I expect more to come.

Things are changing fast here so I'd get on the air and get in on the action.

Best 73 DE N1FCC

Saturday meeting

Tucker Hurton — 2012-03-07T11:46:55Z

Saturday Morining 9:00 am at the Exeter Hospital caffeteria 5 allumni drive Exeter NH.

This Month's meeting

Tucker Hurton — 2012-03-07T11:45:19Z

This meeting will be a casual one, but we will need to discuss if we will have an election at the next meeting,
or if we will have the election by email. Deuce will also update the club on the status of the IRS liability. As a final topic we will discuss NHIT as a brand and how/IF it can be improved.
The goal would be to get eight folks at this meeting up from the six at the last one.

See you this Saturday morning at the Exeter Hosptal Cafeteria. We sit in the back corner. Directions are to park in the covered lot go in the main door up the elevator to the cafe which is between the new building and the main hospital.

73 sk de n1fcc

Touchtone link and unlink from both REF and XRF reflectors

Tucker Hurton — 2012-02-24T12:00:00Z

Please use:

# for unlinking
0 or 00 to trigger the info message
*1C or *01C or *001C to link to REF001C
1A or 01A or 001A to link to XRF001A

Please be courteous and remember what reflector you were connected to before making adjustments, and put things back when you are done.

As a rule the machines will be connected to XRF019B except for N1HIT B which is connected to NE1DV B

Please note this functionality does not apply to NE1DV which is now running ICOM g2 gateway code.

I have noticed many remote repeaters are now connecting to our reflector and are having QSO's with us. You should all
Leave your radios on, and talk to these folks if you can to encourage friendship.

This functionality was included in the February 23rd version of the repeater and gateway software.

This should make it more fun with folks who had 2200 radios with limited memory.

Lets have some fun.

Dave

New repeater in area and This month's Meeting

Tucker Hurton — 2012-02-06T13:30:00Z

If you program "STN603 D" into your local machine and key up, in the future if anyone else keys up on "STN603 D" Starnet will find you on what ever repeater you are using around the world.
Starnet uses the callsign tracking that is naturally part of IRCDDB and you can be on any machine either trust or non trust that is running IRCDDB. Please note that Dvdongles cannot use this feature, but DVAP's that are running
G4KLX Gateway can.

The Starnet group we have active is "STN603 D" I chose D for Dstar, should be easy to remember. Please note connecting and activating Starnet should not be taken lightly. I will be like a big party line, and you will ring everyone's
phone all at once. This should work well for nets and opportunities where every one needs to be talking together (emergency situation for example). Consider all machines connected as one and all key folks needed even if they are out of the area.

I think we should try a coordinated test of this new repeater with a net. Possibly Deuce can coordinate this.

Please note that because next Tuesday night is valentines day/night, This months Meeting will be Saturday morning, Feb 11, at 8:30 am at Exeter Hospital's cafeteria. This location was chosen because it is usually not busy like a restaurant would be on a weekend
We also need to support our ECOM partners and be friends with the hospitals. We may have a DRATS expert at the meeting, so possibly this meeting will have a good technical discussion. We will also continue last months discussion.

See you there

Dave

N1fcc

Repeater Update

Tucker Hurton — 2012-01-14T13:30:00Z

Tonight (2012/01/13) all local repeaters were connected to xrf005b for the 9pm Friday night net. 49 hams participated from around the world. This net is every Friday at 9pm and has been going on for two years. I manually connected all the machines, but expect to have a solution, that will automatically do the linking. The net was allot of fun, and it was nice to hear almost 50 folks giving the machines a little action. If in the future the machines don't seem linked feel free to hook em up.

Additionally I have set up N1HIT B to be linked to REF10C. This will allow seacoast users to either connect to XRF019B on the 2M node, or REF10C on the 440 node.

Also feel free to link the machines to any DPLUS or Dextra reflectors, remember they will automatically switch back to their predetermined reflectors if there has been no activity for 60 minutes.

Fred and Paul have been doing some callsign routing experiments between repeaters, and tonight I was involved in a three way QSO with each participant on a different machine.

We had a fine turnout at the Tuesday club meeting and many topics were discussed. If anyone has questions regarding the meeting, you should ask who attended, we clearly need better communication between everyone.

Please remember the Sunday night Skype meeting, If you feel that you are not on the list send me an email at amsat.org and ill add you to the fun.

Deuce is planning a Sunday night soon, so stay tuned.

We hope to have a new machine up and running soon. Gene is waiting for a few more bits to get things going.

Remember, the G4klx software is quite simple and you need no more than a computer with a sound card and internet access to set up a repeater or hotspot.

Usage of the network is still quite small, so lets get active

Dave
n1fcc