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All those in the Toledo, OH area that have used W8AII-10 in the past... My system will be off the air for an extended period of time while I upgrade the antenna and change the coax. I have found that water has migrated between the outer coax cover and the shield and worked its way down to the radio. Most likely it'll be down for several weeks.

I will announce when the system is back on the air...

73, Al/ W8AII/ AAT5DZ

I have no issue with controlling the IC-706MK2G when I use my BlueTooth laptop and RMS Express. It's just when I'm using the USB cable connected to the computer from the SCS Pactor to the computer. The connection from the Pactor modem is a data cable going from the rig control out on the SCS Pactor modem going to the C-IV input on the
706. The set up calls for the C-IV address which according to my Icom set up is
58h and as the instructions in the Help file say, I included the h in the
address as 58h. When I go to open the Session as WL2K Pactor it goes to
initialize the modem and shuts down the RMS Express program all together.
Essentially a crash of the program.
I tried it both with the h in the hex set up of the C-IV address and without the

I have no issue with controlling the IC-706MK2G when I use my BlueTooth laptop and RMS Express. It's just when I'm using the USB cable connected to the computer from the SCS Pactor to the computer. The connection from the Pactor modem is a data cable going from the rig control out on the SCS Pactor modem going to the C-IV input on the
706. The set up calls for the C-IV address which according to my Icom set up is
58h and as the instructions in the Help file say, I included the h in the
address as 58h. When I go to open the Session as WL2K Pactor it goes to
initialize the modem and shuts down the RMS Express program all together.
Essentially a crash of the program.
I tried it both with the h in the hex set up of the C-IV address and without the

I think I remember a program someone had written so that folks could enter a list of call signs, and then get a something back indicating which ones were active. I would like to be able to enter a list of the Mars members in my state and see how many have "registered" on Winlink.

Rusty NNF9JK/NNN0FJK@navymars.org

In the process of building a new RMS Gateway for the Denton County EOC. The current RMS has been plagued with unauthorized changes or closing of the RMS Software. Will be moving the RMS Gateway to a new computer and placing it behind a locked door. Hopefully, this will alleviate the issue we've experienced.

I have an RMS Packet station setup with the following:
Yaesu FT-8100
KPC-3
IBM ThinkPad Laptop
Linksys WRK51 4-port/Wireless Router (Laptop wired via Cat 5e to Router)

A station will connect to the RMS and it seems the localhost is going to sleep or something as after 30 seconds or so RMS Packet sends a msg to the user "Unable to connect to Localhost" and forces a disconnect. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to it that I can see as I have witnessed a person connect very shortly after a successful transaction and recieve this message.

In watching the transaction, it appears to take about 35 seconds for RMS Relay to talk to RMS Packet and by the time the call sign shows up in Relay, the disconnect has already been forced.

I am honored to have received the SCYA Golden Key Award for 2008.

From the Golden Key Deed of Gift: "This award is given in recognition of their outstanding service to yachting communications by Amateur Radio operators. These 'Hams' have provided for the safety, comfort and convenience of all yachtsmen in the highest tradition of the Amateur Radio Service."

http://scya.org/scya-awards/annual-awards/goldenkey1.php
http://uscga1242.org/Documents/tom_golden_key_award.pdf

And the 2008 U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Achievement Medal:

http://uscga1242.org/Documents/tom_uscga_achievement_award.pdf

Thanks!
Tom Tcimpidis K6TGT

Updated: February 2009