Sysop Blogs

riding my bike in nov, hit by car..the police were right there and they arrested individual on the spot, he was on cell phone and not watching where he was going.

Unattended scratch became cellulitus on left leg....inflated to over twice normal size, skin split, lots of problems ,,,,became septic.....I didnt think anything wrong with me as blood pressure was only 42/27 up admitting to trippler army hosp, They said not enough blood to brain, I WAS NOT thinking properly.

ten days later, back home but so weak I cant even get on the air....still weak and taking physical therapy two to three times a week. SOOOooo...off the air for the time being.....whilst in hospital, computer, cell phone, etc stolen from boat.

W1EO RMS PACTOR and PACKET stations are back on line.

Please stop by.

73 de DoC

A new command has been added to APRSLink to make sending messages faster and easier. The SP command places APRSLink into a special mode where anything sent to WLNK-1 after the SP command is treated as the body of the message. To end this mode and send the message you send /EX. You may still use the replay (Y) command to check what APRSLink has collected, but anything else that APRSLink receives (between the SP and /EX commands) becomes part of the message body.

See the section titled "A New and Easier Way to Use APRSLink" at
http://www.activeham.com for more information.

73, Lee K0QED

I've since come to understand that my RMS Packet was never meant to work with dialup, and that my problem will go away when I use a high speed connection. The fact that it worked at the beginning with dialup confused me, and no one knows why it did for that time.
Thank you Lor, for clearing that up. I am presently using Telpac to do testing right now. It works delightfully with dialup.

Mark KC9GHQ

Greetings,

I have been installing RMS packet on all my computers.

I have dialup and am just using dialup to TEST the program as that is all i have.

When i first installed the program it verified my keycode every time. Now it doesnt.

I re downloaded the program and started over. Winlink filled in my site info when i fired it up WITH my keycode. It downloads the automatic updates, but it REFUSES to verify my keycode now.
I have written to Lor and others who have told me that it WONT work with dialup. I EXPLAINED MY SITUATION. IT WORKED WHEN I FIRST INSTALLED IT!

THEY HAVE TOLD ME THAT MY KEYCODE IS CORRECT.

THE KEYCODE WORKED BEFORE, AND I HAVE NO INTENTION OF RUNNING IT FULL TIME ON DIALUP.
I JUST LEAVE IT CONNECTED WHILE I TEST.
Can anyone help?

I have had RMSPacket up and running for some time now in the Toledo, OH area. Despite presentations made to local radio groups and promoting it via local VHF bands and hamfests, it still fails to generate little, if any, activity. I can count on one had the folks who access the system.

We won't give up on it just yet but there may be a point in time where the equipment might find use in another project...

Al, SYSOP W8AII-10

On Saturday, the lifting cable on the K6CYC tower failed causing the tower to free fall straight down. The resulting impact destroyed the rotor and TX34A beam on that tower.

No one was hurt and the other antennas were not affected. We have a new rotor and Force 12 C4E beam on order to replace the failed antenna. Winlink service will not be significantly impacted as I have temporarily moved the beam frequencies to a backup R8 vertical antenna. The 3595.0 frequency will be off-air until the tower is repaired, however. I have attached a picture of the result...

Tom Tcimpidis K6TGT
K6CYC Winlink Sysop and 2007/2008 RAG Chairman
California Yacht Club

Update on 10/01/2008: The new tower, rotor and beam will be online October 6, 2008.