Calling all Hams--Amateur Radio Operators

[Covey41]

If your going to Atlanta next week, don't forget your HTs!! The Atlanta Radio Club has invited all amateur's involved in FIRST to use their repeaters. They have both a 2m and a 70cm machines. (Both located downtown.) the 2m machine is on 146.82 w/negative offset, 70cm machine is on 444.825 w/positive offset, both use a PL146.2.

If anyone is interested, we could setup a simplex net each night at 2100hrs. Lets start Weds. night (11APR07) on 146.52.

73
WA1MOW

[Matt Krass]

If there's a specific time you're meeting on either repeater let me know and I'll dial up IRLP (They are connected to the IRLP net right?) and join you, it's as close as I can get to Atlanta this season.

KC2RGZ

Also, if anyone wants to call me up and send me updates, I'll be listening as often as I can on my 70cm HT on the local repeater, IRLP node 4747.

[EHaskins]

If the Atlanta repeater is IRLP can I connect to that from my windows computer like i could with Echolink? If I could do that I would listen even if I didn't/couldn't talk.

[Matt Krass]

Originally Posted by EHaskins

If the Atlanta repeater is IRLP can I connect to that from my windows computer like i could with Echolink? If I could do that I would listen even if I didn't/couldn't talk.

Most IRLP nodes support streaming web audio, check out the website for the club running the repeater. In order to talk you'll need to have your radio on a repeater that's equipped with IRLP, then each unit has its own special activation code, for ours we just dial the node number in on the radios keypad. Ours periodically plays an automated message explaining how to use the IRLP system.

If anyone from Ontario happens to know of a good ham radio course/club that actually teaches the course well feel free to let me know or post, I really should learn this and get my license but I found out the hard way once that you really have to know you're stuff, there are 100 questions on the exam out of a pool of 600 and as I found out once the hard way....you have no idea which questions you're going to get, so rather than just learn enough to barely pass the exam and get the license I wouldn't mind learning it properly if there was a reputable course being taught somewhere.

I am also in Canwarn which is our equivalent of skywarn so the license would be rather useful for severe weather suff.

thanks,

Mark
stormcentre@rogers.blackberry.net
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wxscan/

[geeknerd99]

^^^!!!You have my avatar!!! (which I myself stole off somewhere)^^^

Hmmmm... no license... yet, but I think I just found myself an excuse to bring one of my shortwave radios along.

[falconmaster]

We will bring our hand held 2m, we have 15 hams on the team!

[Matt Krass]

Any chance of us FIRSTers meeting on a reflector before Atlanta? I want to get used to your voices/calls before it's party time.

Somebody know a good reflector?

Originally Posted by geeknerd99

^^^!!!You have my avatar!!! (which I myself stole off somewhere)^^^

Hmmmm... no license... yet, but I think I just found myself an excuse to bring one of my shortwave radios along.

Well you didn't steal it off me, I know that for a fact because I stole it off you

mark
stormcentre@rogers.blackberry.net