Sunday, June 14, 2015

June APRS net was fun!

KC5SHE did an excellent job for the June APRS net.  He had many check-ins (I'll let him post the list later) from around the state.  We also had a check-in through the Oklahoma DMR talkgroup by KE5URG.

The real breakthrough was the use of the ANSRVR portion of APRS.  Basically ANSRVR lets you send one message to a group.  In our case, it was OKAPRS.  The message is then sent to all the individual participants, routing through the closest IGATE to them.  Really makes running the net much easier, plus everyone gets to see everyone else's remarks at the same time.  I believe all but one or two of the participants successfully logged on to the ANSRVR system and used it successfully. 

The other breakthrough was we had our first check-in on HF using MFSK-32 on the FLDIGI program interfaced to the BPQ32 packet switch program.  AF5LW was able to get it going by using the instructions previously posted on this blog in less than an hour.  So, if you were worried that it was difficult to get started, that proves that it can easily be done in literally just a few hours.

All in all a "fun" net.  Next one is coming up on July 11th and net control will be KD5NJR.

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