[FADCA] email on lake Woodruff

Wed, 05 Feb 2003 06:22:12 -0500

At 04:52 PM 2/3/03, you wrote:
>At 08:12 AM 2/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi all, just a quick note to say I was on lake Woodruff west of Deland on 
>>Sunday and was able to connect to my TelPac station back in Winter Park 
>>using W4PLB-8 and my Palm/ Kenwood TH-D7.
>>
>>Lake Woodruff is a remote and beautiful lake with no houses, nothing but 
>>swamp and cypress trees all the way around.
>>
>>It was amusing to be able to use such a small station to provide email 
>>way out on the lake.
>>
>>See ya at HamCation,
>>
>>Dale
>>
>>-
>>Dale Coleman
>>[email protected]
>>http://home.earthlink.net/~kf4sir
>
>
>Hi Dale
>
>That's great. Can you hit w4plb where it is now from your house all the 
>time? Do you think we would be able to digi or use you as a node at the 
>meeting to be able to demo the packet system?
>
>
>73, Bill N4XEO

Hi Bill and the group, my TelPac station is good into W4PLB-8 most of the 
time. It gets week during the day but is very solid during the night and 
morning. I have the power up to max 50 watts and a 3 el beam up about 24 
feet. This just barely gets the job done.

Anybody that wants to try and use my station as a digi to get to the w4plb 
network is welcome to try but here are some notes to think about. My beam 
is pointing north so the fair ground would be off the side, I don't think 
it will be reachable from the fair grounds unless I move the beam to the 
west. If I do that I'm sure it would not hit w4plb-8 anymore.

I'm currently experimenting with using TelPac with the AGWPE but have some 
issues with AGWPE and have not been able to get it to beacon or digi yet.

I can switch back to direct KPC3+ control, no problem but we will need to 
coordinate this.  When I run the KPC3+ I have it set to digi using the call 
kf4sir-3. The kf4sir-3 digi has been tested a lot using my HT to connect to 
the w4plb network and works very well.

Another option might be for me to move the beam to the west and try to 
provide TelPac only service.

If anybody is going to the fairgrounds before Sat and is interested in 
checking to see if my TelPac station can be hit please let me know and I 
will move the beam west.

Thanks, Dale

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Dale Coleman
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