[FADCA] 144.99 MHz

[bud Thompson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>
To: <willy3jax at bellsouth.net>; "Florida Amateur Digital Communication 
Association" <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 23:40
Subject: Re: [FADCA] 144.99 MHz


> On 8/23/06, willy3jax at bellsouth.net <willy3jax at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> We are using 144.99 in Jacksonville to connect to St Johns County.
>>
> Are you using it to interconnect two LANs or other facilities or are they
> two LAN channels? I believe that the FADCA recommendations are
> that 2m not be used to interconnect network and BBS type devices
> to other such devices, only for user LAN connections.  For those types
> of links we use 220 and above.
>
> -- 
> Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --

* * *
Yes, the use of LANS for interconnecting is not recommended.  But we do what 
we can do where there is little interest/activity between two areas that 
need connectivity.  This is part of re-building and adding to the old 
network.

We are presently using the route - ORL - DeLand - DAB - STA - via UHF 
Backbone. STA is a ROSE switch with only two ports: 144.99 LAN and 441.150 
backbone.  The STA backbone port with back-to-back beams sharing the power 
serves to link southward to DAB and northward toward Jacksonville to - 
somewhere that no longer can make the UHF jump.  So we switch at STA from 
441.150 to the LAN where there is an X1J- node northward near JAX that takes 
us on into JAX (after switching 2M frequencies to 144.01 I think.) Presently 
all this starting with DAB northward is 1200b.

This link from Orlando to JAX will become full -network compatible- with our 
current plans to install new switches (either FPAC or ROSE) by the end of 
the year.

ORL-DeLand-DAB-STA-Orange Park - JAX and will all be at 9.6kb.  The use of 
144.99 for backbone links will no longer be required.

bud N0IA