[W8MWA] New ham to the area... and possibly an idea?

[Josh Prichard]

Thanks Betty!

It's going to be a nice change from where I live now.  There is so much
more to do around Morgantown and the surrounding areas.  That is also why
I'm hoping the ham community is also pretty active.  I like tinkering with
radios and tech but not too many down here even use a radio anymore.

If I may ask.... what did you do at WVU?  Your name sounds familiar but I
may be getting it confused with someone else with a name like yours.




On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Betty Wiley <betty.w304 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Josh,
>
> I'm a member of MWA, an electronics dummy, but ham radio is important so I
> help with events and things. I'm retired from WVU.
>
> I just wanted to say, WELCOME to the area and I'm glad you're joining us!
>
> Betty Wiley
> KD8GDZ
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Josh Prichard <wvunderground at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'll be moving to the Bruceton Mills area in the next few weeks and maybe
>> look forward to joining this club at the next meeting.  I haven't been to
>> active on the radio or the local club where I live now for some time.  You
>> would have to blow the dust of the finals on the local repeater where I
>> live now as no one uses it anymore.  The club dwindled down to no one due
>> to problems within the club so another reason why everyone lost interest.
>>
>> Is the w8mwa club a good sized club?  Don't really see many stats on
>> current memebers on the website. Also looking at the website I did notice a
>> small problem.  If you drop the www. off the front of the url and only type
>> in w8mwa.com it takes you to a server page and not the club website.
>> Should be an easy fix with whomever hosts the site.  Also I seen on a
>> previous topic of how hard it was to contact anyone without making email
>> addresses public.  There is a plugin out there for wordpress which the site
>> runs that may be of help.  Can contact anyone in the group but not give out
>> an email address.
>> https://wordpress.org/plugins/pta-member-directory/
>> If yall need help with the website I'm pretty versed in Wordpress.
>>
>> Now.... I have been toying with the idea of trying to get a DMR repeater
>> on the air after I get moved and settled in.  DMR is a digital mode like
>> D-Star.  There aren't many in West Virginia and it would be the first in
>> the northern part of the area.  I'm looking at connecting it to the
>> dmr-marc network which connects to worldwide talkgroups and local
>> talksgroups via an internet connection at the repeater site.  Would also be
>> nice to get other local clubs in on this and have a regional talk group for
>> West Virginia or just the surrounding counties of the club for an always on
>> link sorta like the hamtalk system but all digital.  This would hopefully
>> bring more repeater activity to the area and maybe get people talking more.
>> You can read more here and see all of the current repeaters.....
>> http://www.dmr-marc.net/
>> Also Norcal has a stream you can listen to to get an idea of what dmr
>> sounds like.
>> http://norcaldmr.org/
>> Now the big question.... is there enough interest in new tech in the club
>> for an idea like this to get off the ground?
>>
>> Josh
>> KC8TAI
>>
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