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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

As fas as the mainstream media (M5M) are concerned, ham radio doesn’t exist. All I’ve heard about are heroic efforts to distribute Starlink terminals.

As past FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, KK4INZ, said in Ham Radio Now Emcomm Extra #8, when an incident occurs “they just want their email to work.”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Now you'll have to find something else to complain about.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some people may prefer to assemble their node from parts rather then buying a completed appliance.

Why are you against that?

 

This appeared on Facebook regarding the IT situation over at the ARRL:

This was reported by Chris NW6V

Mike Ritz, W7VO, ARRL 2nd Vice President, was at the WVDXC club meeting last night, having just attended an ARRL board meeting to discuss the outage. Mike reported those meetings are a weekly event until the matter is resolved.

Everything that was running on INTERNAL servers is down until further notice. That includes their VoIP phone system, their .org email addresses, and front ends for things like LOTW. Everything running on external servers - cloud servers etc. - including LOTW data, is believed unaffected. But, such data will not be available until the internal matters are resolved. Thus, "[email protected]" doesn't work - because that was on their internal mail server. But "[email protected]" does - because the relays didn't run internally. I checked, and [email protected].

Efforts to restore the internal systems is proceeding full-time. No time-line can be given. The nature of the problem cannot be discussed.

I believe Mike said - with air asterisks around his words - "We have been advised to say nothing." He responded similarly when asked if "the Feds" were investigating this.

READ MORE: https://w2lj.blogspot.com/2024/05/interesting-speculation.html

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Amateur Radio is a niche hobby full of niches; most of them require a radio. Here's one list of things you can do with/in Amateur Radio:

🔗 https://hamradiofornontechies.com/what-can-i-do-with-ham-radio/

Clubs are highly overrated. They are only beneficial if your interests in Amateur Radio coincide with a sizable segment of the club membership or with the club's purpose. In my case our club is `primarily a social outlet for disheveled old folks who are only interested in DXing and contests; not my cup of tea.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

None ... because I won't play in that cesspool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The APRSLink callsign reverted to WLNK-1 around February 3rd.

Edit: Found the approximate reversion date

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Forgot to mention that I was using APRSLink to check-in to the FediFridayWinlinkNet

https://coloradodigital.net/nets/fedifridaywinlinknet/

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

On Thursday, January 18th, I discovered that the Winlink APRSLink callsign is now WLNK rather than WLNK-1.

Here's how ...

My APRSLink login attempt through WLNK-1 (over VHF) failed so I switched to APRSDroid (over TCP/IP) to rule out an iGate/digi issue.

When I started APRSDroid I received a "message waiting" notice from WLNK instead of the expected WLNK-1.

So I sent my APRS messages to WLNK and was able to login over both VHF and TCP/IP.

This callsign change has not been mentioned at https://winlink.org/APRSLink

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Please use a more specific subject so that readers can easily understand what your post is actually about.

 

Join Hams from the Red River Valley and the surrounding area for the RRRA 2023 Hamfest and ARRL Dakota Division Convention on Saturday, September 23, 2023 at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds in West Fargo, ND.

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Visit our Hamfest page or download our flyer for more information.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

seems awesome for recreational and emergency communication.

Can we please stop using "emergency communication" as a badge of worthiness?