The year end is upon us and while we don’t have any big ARES event planned in the next few weeks, by January we will be back rolling along again. I hope to have an announcement about the new 70 cm WC5GC repeater out soon; work is being finalized and some testing has taken place so stay tuned for that.
Hi Gang,
Last week’s weather events reminded me of some practices from the past. We have had a problem with hearing our friends at the NWS on Echolink during SKYWARN ops. Wade has pulled his and several other people’s hair out trying to determine why we can’t get the audio up any more. Finally by working with the ops at the NWS we think it has been fixed, as last week we could hear them much better. It has to do with how they access the system with their equipment to reach us up here. Due to the number of counties (links) they have to listen to, it’s not one simple Echolink connection. Wade can explain it much better and after working with Mike down in Ft. Worth, it’s now easier to hear them.
I saw a picture of this situation on the Internet the other day. A dog, maybe a dachshund, with candy sprinkles all over his nose looking up with those big brown eyes with a contrite expression on his face. The obvious question was “why did you do it?” And the caption was something like, “you shouldn’t have left them out, in the cabinet, on the shelf, behind the door.”