There are atleast a couple good nodes in the Broken Arrow area.
If you find that you can't get a good connection to a given station, try using a node.
For example, maybe KD5NJR can't hit AE5QL directly. But he can do a
c ae5me-7
and once he is connected to Jeff's node (at Chapel on the Hill) Scott could do a
c ae5ql-1
to get connected to Mike per usual.
Nodes are a more efficient method of hopping along from one ham station to another to get to a station beyond your line of sight. Not too much unlike using the digipeater function built into TNCs. However, the nodes use a streamlined handshaking process, so node-hopping works better than digipeating if you are going to need more than a couple hops to get to your destination.
Out in Oneta, Wayne has made the KW5M-7 node available. Both nodes can accept multiple simultaneous users. Use the one you hear the best and takes you where you want to go. When connected to a node, try the command
n l
to see a table of other nodes you could hop to next, or
to see stations heard by the node you're presently connected to, try
j l
Next up : speaking of destinations, we have an interesting "server" available to us (ae5me-15) in the Broken Arrow area, that provides BBS and CHAT applications. More in this to follow !
73
Scott
Questions ? Comments ? Lemme know, Scott, kd5njr@gmail.com
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