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Re: FCC fees for Amateur radio services
Gary Vaught - W9TIG
While I dislike the potential for this to discourage some from becoming new operators, I think that this is a responsible move - IF it's truly a cost-based fee. - Best Regards, Gary D Vaught We can engineer a solution to nearly any problem you can accurately define. - somewhat anonymous
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 5:50 PM paul watt <pbw65@...> wrote: --
73 W9TIG Gary Vaught
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Re: K0SI packet down?
Ryan Raney
Hi Don,
Thanks for your response. You got me thinking about all the settings i've tweaked over the past few days and i found that moving my dcd threshold a little bit in soundmodem and bumping up the tx delay to 300ms helped tremendously. I've never been able to hit K0SI-10 reliably from here, so thanks for confirming that it's expected due to terrain. I can pretty reliably bounce through MMJY or MJEF depending on propagation and just tried both with the settings tweaked with no problems. User error! -Ryan KE5SUI
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FCC fees for Amateur radio services
paul watt
Check it out .. http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-proposes-to-reinstate-amateur-radio-service-fees
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Re: Antenna Tower Installation
William Johnson
I have to look in some totes but I think I actually have that Grounding book.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 3:44 PM James Whitehill <jdwhitehill1603@...> wrote:
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Re: Antenna Tower Installation
James Whitehill
That's good news, William. Willam was an enthusiastic and successful member of the Tech class taught by Myron and I in autumn of 2017 William, I'll leave it to others for the answers you seek, but would add the importance of grounding and bonding the tower, to provide lightning and other protections thru grounding and bonding techniques. Mac, K4CHS, is an expert on the grounding of towers, but another source is that ARRL has a small book on "Grounding and Bonding". They also have a text on towers by guys who do that for a living (e.g., W2GD). Also, we have a few experienced "tower guys" in the club who may be free to help. Jim, N0SSM
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 1:03 PM Bryan Nehl <k0emt@...> wrote:
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Re: Antenna Tower Installation
Bryan Nehl <k0emt@...>
Forgot to say that guying information is in another part of the document. There is also max wind load specs.
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On Aug 28, 2020, at 12:51, William Johnson <Wdjohnson81@...> wrote:
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Re: Antenna Tower Installation
Bryan Nehl <k0emt@...>
See http://www.rohnnet.com/files/2015_Rohn_Full_Catalog.pdf#page=170
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For self-supporting Rohn G series. If you are somewhere that needs a permit, the drawings and specs from the manufacturer help a ton. 73 de Bryan, k0emt
On Aug 28, 2020, at 12:51, William Johnson <Wdjohnson81@...> wrote:
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Antenna Tower Installation
William Johnson
My in-laws and I are finally putting up a tower. The tower is a Rohn 25G that is 80'. The plan is to bury the 1st half of the 1st section in concrete and the tower will be attached to the building at approximately 20' up. My question is how big of a concrete foundation do we need to pour for the tower, and also do we need to put guy wires farther up, like at the top?
73, KE0PKO
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Re: K0SI packet down?
Don - KM0R
Hi Ryan,
Based on your location from the FCC database, you’ll have a better shot at hitting MJEF than going direct to K0SI-10 due to terrain. A directional antenna might help that some as well.
Try turning up the volume on your radio (assuming you are not using the speaker jack to hook up to your TNC), then listen to the exchange between you and K0SI-10 or MJEF. Do you hear the other end respond each time you transmit? If not, the other end may not be hearing your transmissions (or may not be decoding them). Also, you’ll want to be sure that you are not overdriving your TNC with audio from the radio. Overdriving the audio will distort the audio and make it hard for the other end to decode your transmissions. You can also try lengthening your TX Delay setting a bit, usually 300ms is enough but no more than 450ms in my experience with packet. If the TX Delay is too short, the other end doesn’t have time to sync onto your transmissions.
Hope this helps!
73, Don – KM0R
From: main@CMRA.groups.io <main@CMRA.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ryan Raney
I swear I replied to this already but I'm also having trouble. It takes about 5 attempts to completely send/receive. Seems like k0si-10 gives up and doesn't finish the transaction.
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Re: K0SI packet down?
Ryan Raney
I swear I replied to this already but I'm also having trouble. It takes about 5 attempts to completely send/receive. Seems like k0si-10 gives up and doesn't finish the transaction.
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K0SI-10 trouble
Ryan Raney
I've been trying to reply to the latest post about this but it looks like it's not getting approved.
I'm still having trouble connecting to winlink on K0SI-10. It seems like it gives up after a bit and I don't get the message 0 sent 0 received etc. It's taken 4 or 5 tries to get a successful connection. Is anyone else having this problem? -Ryan KE5SUI
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Re: K0SI packet down?
Ryan Raney
It took me 4 tries to get it to work, I tried direct twice, I tried through MMJY, and finally through MJEF and it finally sent my test message
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Re: CMRA Newsletter Archives Updated
AD0UK
Thanks John for the hard work!!! 73 Brian ADØUK
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:46 AM John W. Smith <kc0hsb@...> wrote: At our CMRA meeting earlier this month Brian (AD0UK) announced a former
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Re: CMRA Newsletter Archives Updated
Gary Vaught - W9TIG
Thanks, John! - Best Regards, Gary D Vaught We can engineer a solution to nearly any problem you can accurately define. - somewhat anonymous
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:46 AM John W. Smith <kc0hsb@...> wrote: At our CMRA meeting earlier this month Brian (AD0UK) announced a former --
73 W9TIG Gary Vaught
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CMRA Newsletter Archives Updated
John W. Smith
At our CMRA meeting earlier this month Brian (AD0UK) announced a former club member sent electronic copies of a number of newsletters from past years. Brian passed them along to me, and they're now on our Newsletter Archive page at https://k0si.net/newsletter-archive/ .
We now have newsletters dating from 1989 through 2011. Previously we had newsletters going back to 1996. 73, John, KC0HSB -- This message came to you from John Wesley Smith kc0hsb@... Find musings of an eclectic pilgrim at https://johnwesleysmith.com/
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Re: K0SI packet down?
Fred Dittrich
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Thanks. I'll give it another try this afternoon. 73 Fred AE0FD
At 09:45 AM 8/25/2020, you wrote: Thanks Fred,
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Re: K0SI packet down?
Bill McFarland - N0AXZ
Thanks Fred, Can't explain this one. It worked for me. When I went remote to the node I saw that you had connected, but couldnot tell why you had trouble. It worked for me even going through MJEF (accidentally). Bill
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 7:47 AM Fred Dittrich <fdittric@...> wrote: Hi --
Bill N0AXZ
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K0SI packet down?
Fred Dittrich
Hi
This morning it says: *** Starting to call K0SI-10 *** Opening serial port COM6; 9600 baud; Kantronics *** Connecting to K0SI-10 *** Disconnecting due to timeout 73 Fred AE0FD
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Re: Tyree hardware closing
Mike Morgan
Thank you for the heads up on Ttree closing. I haven’t been in that store for over ten years.
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On Aug 23, 2020, at 5:03 PM, Fred Dittrich <fdittric@...> wrote:
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Tyree hardware closing
Fred Dittrich
Hi
From a conversation with one of the owners in a checkout line at Westlakes I found out that Tyree hardware is closing. They have a mix of stock unlike Ace or Lowes or Home Depot. If you need anything from them this might be your last chance to find it in Columbia. 73 Fred AE0FD
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