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Fri
27
Feb '09

DX’ing

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I have not worked any exciting DX. WB1FJH told me about a T27.  I never heard them on phone.  I guess that they were hanging around the cw pile-up on K5D.  How many people worked those guys instead of K5D?  Which is rarer?  I have heard that KB1MWD and K1LWI are talking to everyone on the WD7F machine via Echolink.  The WD7F machine apparently has tremendous coverage and a reflector on Echolink.  Supposedly, it is very busy all of the time.
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Sun
22
Feb '09

K5D

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I have completed a contact with K5D on 20 meters.  WB1FJH had been telling me on the 67 machine about how I would not be able to complete the contact on phone.  I have made it into the log.  I have checked their website.  I am in the log!  Something is wrong with Logbook of the World.  I am unable to connect to it.  I am investigating, right now.  I had wanted to update my log, right away.
I have worked some of the French stations for the REF contest.  However, most of them are operating on phone below the US 20 meter phone band.  So, I can not work them!
I have fired up KB1MWD on Echolink.  I was in a 3-way conference with K1LWI and KB1MWD last night.  I had connected into MWD’s router and established the forwarding rules to enable Echolink.  I had been unable to access Echolink from my computer, until I had realized that I needed to establish rules in my new router.  Plus, I forgot to plug a microphone into the computer.  The microphone jack has been plugged into the radio interface.  I guess that you really need TWO good soundcounds in your computer.  Or perhaps three in case you want to have a MP3 player engaged.
I went to the club breakfast at the Hearth & Kettle on Saturday.  Anyone is welcome to attend.  We have a breakfast club, which has no association with any other entity.  It is just for hams to come and eat breakfast.  It is at the Hearth & Kettle in Weymouth of Massachusetts every Saturday at 0700.
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Mon
16
Feb '09

radio on President’s Day

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It seems to be very tough to work any Europeans.  I hear a lot of them.  I can’t get through the pile-up for the Oman station.  He has a booming signal on 20 meters, right now.

I heard K5D on 15 meters, but it was very weak.  I had clear copy, but I did not think that I would break the pile-up.
N1EY

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Sat
14
Feb '09

This weekend in ham radio

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I have started to contemplate building an ATCS decoding system for portable use in the field.  As you might be aware I am a railfan.  This ATCS system is really starting to gell for me.  Apparently, it is able to decode signals of my favorite railroad.  I am looking at 900mhz radios for the system.  I might go with the AOR scanners.
I was discussing the possibilities with WB1EVP and W1BT at breakfast this morning.  We had a sparse turn-out as some of the guys went to Hamvention in Florida.  Apparently, this is going to be more popular than Dayton!  Some of the others were heading to Marlboro.
I still am hearing exciting talk about 900 Mhz in the Boston area.  There are plans for some big repeaters.  In fact I am hearing about a 900 Mhz repeater, which shall have better coverage than Quincy.  The Fall River 900mhz machine already has super-duper coverage.
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Fri
13
Feb '09

Tax time

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Make sure that you visit WA1NYC for your tax return.  Goto billohara.com for contact information or call him at 781-963.9520
N1EY

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Sat
7
Feb '09

Echolink

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I set port forwarding up for yet another ham,today.  Why does Verizon buy Westell modems and routers?  They do not have some of the nice extras that you can find in a linksys router and they seem to be slower in routing traffic than the main brands.  Couldn’t we have something better than those klunkers?
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Fri
6
Feb '09

Repeater activity

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The Quincy machine has been intermittant, lately.  The repeater technician in the club has been reviewing the problem.  The bird in the cage seems to disappear when he shows up for inspection, tho.  People are saying that I have fine audio into the machine when I am mobile in Bridgewater, yet I can not even hear the machine in a whole bunch of spots in Bridgewater.  Average receive is only at 1 s-unit.
The Weymouth machine has a distorted audio problem.  I actually heard someone talking on the Norwell 2 meters machine the other day and I was shocked.
Anyways, I have been trying the Conventry machine when it is linked to the MMRA network.  This can be fun when I am down in Fall River.  However, the audio is distorted on the Brookline machines.  I don’t know why the audio sounds clipped when coming through the Brookline machine.  So people talking with you get fatigued in short order.
I linked Quincy up to the hub and listened to Bob on the Brookline  machine.  I discovered that people are right about the audio problems.  Bob sounds good on the Quincy machine(which doesn’t carry very far), but he sounded tough on the Brookline machine.  The audio is much better from someone coming in from Norwell(which is coming via VOIP instead of a link radio).  So is it the link radio at Brookline?
N1EY

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