The Utah VHF Society Swapmeet will be February 25th starting at 8:00 am. 

The location will be the Zion's Building at the Utah State Fair Park 155 North 1000 West, Salt Lake City

I presented my home brew at the December 2011 Club Meeting.  My home brew was a set of programs to help in the Buffalo Run. Some club members expressed interest in "testing" the program.  I have made the program available to download on my Sky Drive.  If you want to connect to my test server, connect to KD7HHW-4 on 145.070.  Let me know if you run into problems - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Notes:  This program relies on AGWPE as the interface to the TNC/Radio.  AGWPE can be the TNC if you are using a soundcard interface.  AGWPE has two versions: a paid version and a free version.  I have written my program to work with the free version.  Two other programs to download are AGWTerminal and AGWMonitor.  Download these applications from SV2AGW.

In January, I will be going into more depth on the client and show the server as well.

Dates: Wednesdays - 04, 11, 18 and 25, January 2012 @ 6:00PM - 8:30PM

Location: Weber County Sheriff Office (Training room) 721 W 12th Street Ogden UT

VE Testing: Wednesday 01 February 2012 ... details

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The results are in and published on ARRL's site. Here is an extract for the results (the top 5):

Saturday was a day that showed that preparation is just as much a part of the job as the actual work.

It was a busy day Saturday, but all the planing and behind the scenes work we put in paid off in a big big way.

Even the buffalo and spiders were not just big out there....they were HUGE!!! Ask anyone who was out there about that!

Early Saturday morning we went to the island repeater site.
We were able to get the batteries installed, and changed over the solar and battery system to 24v.
We had been getting some readings where the solar controller was reaching it's max. of 60 amps, so converting to 24v will help out there.

We created a new power and ground distribution system in the rack to support both the 24 and 12 volts. Installed 2 new 24 to 12 converters, (installed for redundancy)
Installed a new resistor for the D/A converter for the repeater controller to read the 24 volts from.

It went very very well, we had few glitches, and I am very pleased with how it all turned out.

Thanks for everyone's help,w7jof,w7cwk,n7dnd,kc7qqr,kc7ctr...thanks for all your help Saturday.
And thanks to Hall for reprogramming the voltage readout in the repeater controller on Sunday night.

Thanks again everyone for all your help and support!

NTS Manual http://nts.ema.arrl.org/node/31

Message form http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/forms/radiogram2.pdf

Handling Instructions http://nts.ema.arrl.org/node/32

ARL Numbered radiograms http://nts.ema.arrl.org/node/30

Sample messages http://nts.ema.arrl.org/node/35