Wide Area Net

COMING SOON!!

Wide Area Net starting Thursday August 5, 2010 at 9:00 pm eastern time. We will be calling the net every Thursday night.

ALL hams are welcome to check in. The net will be called by repeater. We will be asking for Call sign, Name, County, and State (If not in KY.)

Please allow the repeaters to drop before transmitting.

(Please remember to pause a moment before speaking to allow repeaters in the link system to key up – Steve, W4HKL)

Here is a list of the repeaters linked by IRLP. (Reflector 9613)

Jonesville Va.  442.575 + 100 hz

Middlesboro , Ky.  442.325 + 100 hz

Williamsburg, Ky. 444.050 + 100 hz

Shelbyville Ky. 444.050 +  91.5 hz

Oneida, Tn. 145.350 -  77 hz

Additional Ky. repeaters may be linking in for the net.

Hope to hear you on the net.

73

MIKE SWIGERT

KE4YRI

 

- forwarded via Henry, WB4IVB

“Secrets” of the Mastr II…..’’

Everything you wanted to know but where afraid to ask…

 

Building a Repeater Series… by that repeater dude.

I’ve looked through his Youtube area, but I don’t see his callsign or name listed…. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Connecting an Analog Repeater to a D-Star Repeater via a D-Star mobile radio

It’s all in the video.  

Crossband Repeat

Tutorial on Crossband repeating :  http://www.cvarc.org/tech/crossband.html

A nice video tutorial on setting up a Kenwood rig for XBR.

 

Building a crossband repeater

 

 

 

Steve, W4HKL

Tennessee Scanner Frequencies

Tennessee Scanner Frequencies
from N4YEK
www.qsl.net/n4yek

Steve, W4HKL

Orchard City Amateur Radio Club Coax Calculator

A really great tool to compute coax loss factoring in cable type, SWR, etc…

Link:  http://www.ocarc.ca/coax.htm

 

Steve, W4HKL

LA8OKA's Intermod Calculator

Calculate intermodulation products from 2 and 3 frequencies.

"It can be a tremendous job to calculate the intermodulation products from several frequencies, below is a calculator that calculates the intermodulation product from two and three frequencies."
- LA8OKA

He's got plenty of other of useful amateur radio communication links, articles, and calculators on the rest of his site.


Link: http://www.arcticpeak.com/radiopages/intermodulationproducts.htm

Main: http://www.arcticpeak.com/index.html

Steve, W4HKL

Area Nets

The 145.470 Group has a listing of local nets sorted by day of the week.

Link: http://www.470arg.com/cms/area_net

Thanks to the admin over there for making it available to us all.

Steve, W4HKL

Installing 220-foot Rohn 45G Tower

Nice pictorial of an amateur and friends installing a 220 foot tower with assistance from a crane...














Link: http://w8ji.com/lifting_rohn_25g_45g_tower.htm

W8JI's main site... a gab-bag of ham info!

Link: http://w8ji.com/

Steve, W4HKL