[OKDXA] VHF Packet Cluster

[Terry R. Hackworth]

Hello Kim,

Well there was at one time a DX Cluster in the OKC area.  But we never could
get a good link to the cluster, and also had problems getting the cluster
data to the Cluster node.  But, in any case, the cluster node tower site was
lost so there is nothing I know of at the present.

I cannot get DSL either.  If it's ever available here in the Piedmont area I
will put up a two meter cluster system.  I have all the hardware and I
believe also enough software to get it going.  I just don't have a
connection to the internet other than dial up, and for various reasons, that
is an impractical system.

I do at times use a software package from Italy called DX Telnet.  It is a
very powerful program that lets you do a lot of things with cluster data if
you buy the SYSOP version.  I have connected to the internet with this
computer, which is in a different room than the ham station, and via a TNC
and a two meter portable, transmitted spots to the ham station VHF setup and
then into the contest software.  Worked perfectly this last Sweepstakes CW.
It did require a continuous connection to the internet, but I was able to
use the internet computer to fetch mail, and other stuff while the DX Telnet
was running too.  So a work-around of sorts.

I hope we can in the future get a cluster going again.  Good luck...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Elmore" <Kim.Elmore@noaa.gov>
To: "OK DX Association" <OKDXA@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 5:04 PM
Subject: [OKDXA] VHF Packet Cluster


> Hi all,
>
> I understand that, at one time, there was a VHF packet cluster in the OKC
> area.  Is it still active?  If so, what frequency?  TELNET clusters are
> nice, unless someone else wants to connect to the internet through our
> dial-up ISP... We'd have DSL if it were available, but it isn't (the price
> paid to live in a quiet, rural region).
>
> 73,
>
> Kim Elmore, N5OP
>                            Kim Elmore, Ph.D.
>                         University of Oklahoma
>          Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
> "All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The
> greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.
>
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