[K3CAL] Digital simplex test results

Bob Sheskin bob at n3pph.com
Tue Apr 29 08:11:30 EDT 2014


Sorry about disappearing, the twisted pair got me.

‹ 
73,
Bob N3PPH






On 4/28/14, 10:13 PM, "Jim Tetlow" <k3uga at comcast.net> wrote:

>That was a good start, good call Eric. BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO BOB?
>
>Eric the station you heard earlier on the repeater was Tim Nagel KB3YQK,
>he
>has the 400 mobile and lives in the Bowie Area. I saw him over the weekend
>he has had the 400 since it hit the street, no one to play with, but has
>found many other neat things the radio does without digital. He has been
>using it APRS among many other things. I told him to try and hit the
>repeater in digital mode the signal may get in the RX better than FM
>analog.
>Just has to remember to switch to digital every time he talks. I thing
>you,
>Bob and Ed may have been doing that as you were all very strong. I was in
>FM
>on B band monitoring 146.580 in Digital Narrow band. I liked Bob's thought
>on having a Meet with the New Jersey Club....but what happened to Bob????
>
>73 Guys, see some Wednesday at lunch, and most Thursday at the meeting.
>
>The mesh is cool, but Digital rules!
>
>Regards,
>Jim Tetlow
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: K3CAL [mailto:k3cal-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Eric H.
>> Christensen
>> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 21:26
>> To: Calvert Amateur Radio Association - K3CAL
>> Subject: [K3CAL] Digital simplex test results
>> 
>> During the net I mentioned coming up on 146.5800MHz C4FM after the net
>>in
>> hopes of testing out narrowband digital communications simplex with
>whomever
>> had it.  Tonight we had five stations (including myself) on the air and
>>I
>could hear
>> all but one person.  Going North to South there were:
>> 
>> K3UGA - North Beach
>> W4OTN - Sunderland
>> N3IDX - Huntingtown
>> N3PPH - Prince Frederick
>> KC3AEN - Prince Frederick
>> 
>> I briefly heard KC3AEN but his signal was too low for me to decode
>although
>> N3IDX was able to pull him in.  I'm quite happy to have worked so many
>stations
>> simplex.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Eric W4OTN/3
>
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