Special Announcement
Cal, W4GMH, and Bob, KI4MEU, have come up with a Tri-Club Christmas Party plan. We can have our Christmas party at the Northbay Baptist Church in Niceville at no cost. We will have the party on Thursday, December 18th, at 6 P.M.
The Tri-Club party is intended to promote fellowship and cooperation among the Okaloosa County hams to improve our ability to provide emergency service, get new hams on the air, and develop cooperation among us for things like antenna parties or other forms of helping each other out.
Everybody have a happy Thanksgiving.
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Highlights from the October 23rd club meeting.
We had 17 attendees including the President of the PARC and V.P. from the Milton Amateur Radio Club.
We voted to combine the November and December meetings into our annual Christmas Party and have it on December 18th. We plan to combine our party with the PARC Club's as well. We discussed several locations and Cal, W4GMH, will research locations and prices for Steve, KB4OID, to bring up in the PARC meeting Nov. 6th. We were leaning towards Giuseppi's in Niceville but need to see what Cal finds.
Jim, N4NID, made a repeater report and brought up an important issue. We have had several instances lately of people "Inadvertently sitting on the mobile microphone, PTT" locking up the repeater. I know we have all been guilty of doing it in the past. His solution is simple. Most modern rigs have a time out timer (TOT), option but the default is usually set to off. If you are mobile or in range of the repeater, we recommend you turn it on to 3 mins. or less. If you have any questions about this function please review your owner's manual or contact me, (Phil-N6COP) for assistance.
Thank you
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THANKS TO STEVE MCCARTER-KB4OID AND JIM POTTER-N4NID' S EFFORTS WE NOW HAVE A 440 MHZ D-STAR REPEATER. THE 2 METER AND GATEWAY FUNCTIONALITY IS A FEW WEEKS AWAY YET.
THE FREQUENCY IS 444.600, +DUP AND THE CALL SIGN IS "K4FWB". HOWEVER, FOR NOW YOU ONLY NEED TO PUT "CQCQCQ" IN YOUR CALL SIGN PROGRAMING.
THE D-STAR REPEATER IS LOCATED ON THE SAME TOWER AS THE CRESTVIEW REPEATER (147.360).
SO IF YOU HAVE THE CAPABILITY, DIAL UP THE 444.600 MACHINE AND CHECK OUT YOUR COVERAGE. WE ARE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING YOU ON THE COUNTIES NEWEST REPEATER.
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To be kept informed on the latest Tropical Depressions, Storms, and Hurricanes. I have added a separate page called "Latest Storm Events" in the upper left column under "News and Events". Along with the link below.
Stormpluse Current Atlantic Storm Activity. Thanks Chayne
