Lancaster on John Flinchbaugh KD3EE

Winlink through N3FYI

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I connected up to Winlink through N3FYI’s gateway on 144.950MHz. using 1/4-wave antenna hanging in the tree. I also had set my APRS message to “Winlink”, so the Winlink server pinged me over APRS when I had a message. I’m not sure I could read the APRS message on the UV-PRO, though, since I let it sit too long. I had a message icon, but I couldn’t dismiss it.

April Tower Drill

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’m listening to the April Tower Drill of Lancaster ARES. They seem to be roving around the county and contacting each of the repeaters to log a signal report at higher and lower power levels, especially down to HTs.

From the ARES page, I discovered a new repeater to add to my scan list: W3AD at 145.39 PL 118.8.

SPARC Member Meeting - 2024-03-26

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I attended the SPARC member meeting tonight and heard about lots of interesting plans. They have some fun events coming up, like a fox hunt, some antenna building to prepare for the fox hunt, and even some POTA outings. They’ll also start planning for field day.

The main presentation was about the recent Dry Tortugas DXpedition.

I went home and sent my member application right away.