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PCL NET SCRIBE MAR 3 2025
N5VLZ, Daryl, Arkansas (Net Control/Scribe)
KX4AC, Carl, Arizona (Early Checkin)
NS2B, Bob, New York (Sysop)
VA7RBP, Rick, Canada
WG3K, Eric, Maryland (1 Rounder)
NT5R, Charley, Missouri
**
GE All, and welcome to the Mar 3 2025 PCL Net.
Early checkin for Carl, KX4AC...his comments
will be in the scribe posted later tonight, as
I will have severe storms and strong winds to
deal with overnight into Thursday.
Net order is Daryl, Bob (NY), Eric, Rick,
Charley, and whoever else shows up.
Our next net holiday is April 21, for
Easter (it's late this year).
N5VLZ:
Much of the US goes back to Daylight Savings
Time this Sunday, March 9, at 2am local time.
The time for this, and most other nets won't
change, but if you observe the time change,
the UTC time for nets will be an hour earlier.
Be prepared to lose an hour of sleep Saturday
night, and if you forget to spring forward,
you'll be an hour late to church, work,
school, medical appointments, or ham radio
traffic nets.
It'll be stormy here Tuesday morning, then
windy into Thursday. As long as I can keep
power and internet, and avoid damage, I'll
be happy. Besides the start of meteorological
spring, it's the start of tornado, mosquito,
pollen, and the lawn mowing season.
There's a chance I might be able to take the
train trip to Wichita in May after all. While
Union Pacific Railroad is doing trackwork
from March 20 through June 3, apparently Amtrak
is working on creating a Thruway Bus to run
from Marshall to Fort Worth, Texas...with the
Texas Eagle running between Chicago and Marshall,
and from Fort Worth to San Antonio. I hope to
hear something tomorrow. I haven't even booked
the hotel rooms in Wichita yet, plus I had to
spend money on other things this month.
I got my new Samsung Galaxy A16 5G phone, and
was finalizing app setups; but had to do a
hard reset, and start over. Technology sucks
when it doesn't work right.
KX4AC (Early Checkin):
GE All,
I have a conflict tonight with a local club
meeting, so I will do an early check-in this
week. We have 2 local clubs here that I joined,
"West Valley Amateur Radio Club" is the one
with the meeting tonight. The other is the
"Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club," which had
its monthly breakfast at "Fast Eddie's" last
Saturday, so this is a big week for club stuff.
Yesterday, I went to the S'edav Va'aki museum
(it used to be called "Pueblo Grande") and
then on to the Desert Botanical Garden. Both
are right in the middle of Phoenix, near the
airport. I figured that Sunday was a better day
for traffic, but forgot that everyone would also
be out on Sunday excursions. The garden was
totally packed, but I eventually found a parking
space. The weather was perfect, and I had a nice
day.
The presentation at tonight's club meeting is on
"Allstar," so I will find out about that. I am
not sure how interested I am, but I will check it
out anyway. I gather that it is another of those
ham-radio over Internet things. I am not so sure
that is really ham radio.
I continue to plan on how I can setup a permanent
antenna that the local HOA won't see. Then I need
to get the cables into the house without letting
the scorpions in as well. I think I need to make
one of those feed-through panels that fits in the
window, and then stuff something in the cracks to
seal it as best I can. In the meantime, I need to
get out and do a backyard-on-the-air with my
Buddipole and portable radio.
I am also still trying to identify a local peer
for packet radio. I still think I should be able
to reach a couple of stations on the mountains
both southeast and west of here, but I may need
to build a 2m yagi to do it.
I guess that's about all for tonight. See you all
next week.
N5VLZ:
GE, Bob...how was your week?? >>>
NS2B:
GE All!
I think I mentioned one time that I had built myself
an M17 node on an old raspberry pi 3b I had laying
around. Last week, I decided to add Hamclock to it.
I'd looked at that a long time ago and didn't really
understand the fascination for it at the time. But,
I'm finding it handy now! It has satellite tracking
and warns me when the ISS is going to be up, so I can
switch my Winlink system over to APRS and dabble with
the ISS APRS digi. It also has VOA-CAP, and lets me
see who I can get in contact with on 20M packet when
I'm in the mood. Plus it shows local wx, phases of
the moon and other trivia. I like it!
Speaking of wx, spent another weekend in Syracuse
where it was cold and snowy. Got home this morning
to find that not a flake fell here. No complaints!
But I did notice a fresh batch of limbs and twigs
in the yard, and since it's going to be 50 tomorrow,
I guess I'll be the cleaning up the yard.
Daryl, that's good news that your trip might still
be on. You need to get out of the house!
That's all for me. BTU Daryl >>>
N5VLZ:
Bob, the only times I'll leave the house this month
are for a PCP and podiatrist visit, a PO Box Run, and
maybe go out on my birthday. Otherwise, I'm home all
month. I had to order an adapter for the A16 phone as
it doesn't have a headset mic jack. I'm concerned about
the weather...parts of the north and central plains are
under Blizzard and High Wind Warnings, with Red Flag
Warnings out in New Mexico and Texas. It looks like
someone went nuts with the ink palatte!! FB on the RPi
and HamClock software.
GE Rick, how was your week?? >>>
VA7RBP:
GE Daryl and all on the NET.
Temps are starting to warm up here, it's currently 50F
and when we were driving around today, the temp hit 60F.
The snow is almost completely gone, just the big piles
that the snow plows made.
I spent a few days last week fighting with our shower,
trying to fix leaks.
Radio wise, it was just the usual morning PACTOR sessions
on 40M and 20M, with a few tries with Robust Packet.
Saturday, I bought a 3D printer, a buddy found a listing
with a really good price, so I picked it up. Hoping it
will be good for printing up cases for RPi's and interface
boxes.
OK, that's all I have, so BTU Daryl >>>
N5VLZ:
Rick, bummer on the shower issues, but FB on the radio, wx,
and printer deals.
GE Eric, how was your week?? >>>
WG3K:
GE all, been a long day, even though I have nothing remarkable
to show for it.
Interviewed three people today, one tomorrow, and then a few
on Thursday and Friday, for a job on my team at work. I
generally don't like talking to people so it's been a
challenge.
I'm working on a tower project to put 6m through 23cm yagis
up above my roof line. I think I've figured out how it'll all
work but I just need to let the temperatures come up a bit
and the ground dry out a bit. :)
Saturday was NICE! Warm and no precipitation... just a nice day.
Woke up Sunday morning and thought I'd go for a sail. Then I saw
the thermometer... BELOW FREEZING!
What the heck happened? I guess it'll warm up soon enough.
That's all for me tonight. I'm going to bed early so I can get up
early tomorrow morning and head into the office. Back to net. >>>
N5VLZ:
OK, Eric, thanks for stopping by. I thought my display had gone
wonky, but you did the copy and paste like I used to do. Have a
good night and a good week.
GE Charley, how was your week?? >>>
NT5R:
ge everyone
Using new Telnet program tonite, RMS Simple Terminal
Not many features but clean display and working well
67f high temp today but wind made seem cooler
couple nice days last week 74, 75 degrees, did bit of
hiking local area. This is a good time of year for a
hike in woods; no snakes no bugs.
Two local packet nodes working well, can connect with
either to k0wav Scott in Berryville and go worldwide
from there
Branson MOBRA node 300 level on tower fed by one inch
hardline, never dreamed of having site like that, but
our repeater fm had interference on input frequency
from commercial equipment that we could not get rid
of, so moved it to another location with internet
access for Echolink.
Severe Weather Awareness Week in Missouri, state-wide
tornado drill Wednesday, will blow storm sirens and
report in on net
Also SkyWarn training class Thursday afternoon in
Branson
Enough chatter from me, btu Daryl>>>
N5VLZ:
Charley, FB on the wx and the packet node. It's severe
wx awareness week in Arkansas as well, but we may get
the real thing (tornadoes) tomorrow.
I've had to use the smartphone for Echolink, as a
recent Windows Update screwed it up on the desktop
under Windows 11. I'm charging the Samsung Galaxy A16
now, as I've been wasting time on it playing games
(hi hi).
The ARVARF Hamfest is in Dardanelle on Saturday, but
I'm not going. With doing a net on Saturday morning,
that wipes out my going to hamfests, unless I can run
the net from there, and can get transportation.
That will do it for round 1...back to the top for the 73
round.
Bob, thanks for the use of the BBS...anything else for us?? >>>
NS2B:
Nothing more here - everyone have a good week - 73 >>>
N5VLZ:
Thanks for being here, Bob...see you next week.
Rick, anything else?? >>>
VA7RBP:
That's it for me as well. Everyone have a great week,
stay well, 73 until next time. BTU Daryl >>>
N5VLZ:
Take care, Rick...see you next time.
Eric just signed out, so Charley, you get to wrap it up
tonight. Anything else?? >>>
NT5R:
Yes
Daryl, you can get on Echolink direct from web browser
secure site -- webapp.echolink.org
Works pretty good, windows takes care of all the settings,
you just log in
Hamfest in Mt Vernon MO in couple weeks, Branson club
having boot camp for new hams same day
Everyone have an awesome week 73>>>
N5VLZ:
Charley, thanks for that URL...will check it out.
That will do it for tonights PCL Net. With storms here in
the morning, I'll prep the scribe and post it tonight...
had a gray blonde moment last week, and forgot to do it,
until Bob reminded me (blush!).
Everyone stay safe, healthy, weather aware, and radioactive,
and GN DE N5VLZ >>>
**
Daryl Stout, N5VLZ, Little Rock, Arkansas
Please see my QRZ bio for more information.
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