MBARC Digital Group Zoom Meeting THIS Tuesday 2021-09-21 @ 19:00
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Steve Stroh
Sep 20, 2021, 5:02:27 PM9/20/21
to Northwest Washington Digital Amateur Radio
Hello all DG'ers!
It's once again time for the Mount Baker Amateur Radio Club (MBARC)
Digital Group (DG) to meet "Brady Bunch" style on Zoom. We meet to
discuss all things digital (mostly data) in Amateur Radio. Of
particular interest to the MBARC DG is the use of the WB7FHC / AG7GN
Nexus DR-X units (http://wb7fhc.com/intro.html) and HamWAN / AREDN
microwave networking here in Whatcom County.
MBARC DG meets the third Tuesday of each month at 19:00 Pacific. Some
of us gather early for casual chatting.
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84786930504?pwd=YTlsZEs4dGRIMEdKUzVnckhodVNFdz09
Topics for this meeting include:
Introductions of those new to Amateur Radio and/or the Digital Group,
including non DG guests.
Bryan Hoyer K7UDR will join us to discuss the grant proposal that the
San Juan County Amateur Radio Society is putting together to create a
new HamWAN node (and perhaps AREDN) nodes on Mt. Constitution on Orcas
Island.
Steve Magnuson AG7GN will discuss:
* The most recent updates he's done to the Nexus DR-X image -
https://github.com/AG7GN/images.
* The breakage in the Nexus DR-X AX25 library and how to fix it.
* Demo of the flexibility of the Nexus DR-X in remotely powering
on/off a Yaesu FT-857 (with no relays!).
Budd Churchward WB7FHC will talk about doing our Sunday morning 09:00
fsq chats on a repeater versus simplex, which is becoming increasingly
hit-and-miss due to varying antenna systems, radios, etc. (FSQ works
fine on FM repeaters).
Andy Sayler KF7VOL and I will walk through our presentation of the
Whatcom County Multipurpose Remote Nodes we (tried to do) for the 2021
ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference on Saturday
2021-09-18. The paper we submitted for inclusion in the 2021 DCC
Proceedings can be accessed at TAPR DCC 2021 - TAPR DCC 2021 -
https://www.superpacket.org/2021/09/tapr_dcc_2021_multipurpose_remote_nodes.pdf.
I will touch briefly on some of the other interesting presentations
and papers at the just-concluded 2021 ARRL and TAPR Digital
Communications Conference.
Andy and Steve (AG7GN) may also discuss what they've been working on
as a Remote Node to be installed on Lookout Mountain.
Rob Sipes KG7GTC may have an update on the MBARC website -
https://mbarc.groups.io. I have populated the Digital Group section of
the new website - please take a look -
https://mbarc.groups.io/g/main/wiki/28088.
I will discuss a request from the Bellingham Makerspace to include
some "Amateur Radio Eye Candy" for the Makerspace in time for their
Maker Faire on October 9th -
https://bellinghammakerspace.org/posts/maker-faire-and-september-newsletter/.
What I'm thinking of is interesting mapes (or other visually
interesting displays of Amateur Radio activity) on a monitor, running
on a Raspberry Pi:
* Display of APRS (web browser running aprs.fi for Whatcom County)
* WSPR display
* Suggestions for other interesting displays?
The usual show and tell of any projects or activities that you've done
that are "Amateur Radio Digital".
IF there is time, I'd like to lead a discussion (20 minutes max) about
projects / ideas for the coming year for MBARC DG.
Administrivia:
The MBARC DG thanks Budd Churchward WB7FHC for the use of his
business-grade Zoom account for conducting the MBARC meetings.
WEBSITE UPDATE: Note that the MBARC website is being converted to a
groups.io site: https://mbarc.org redirects to
https://mbarc.groups.io/g/main. Your browser MAY change
https://mbarc.org to https://www.mbarc.org which will fail; just
retype to not have the www and it will redirect correctly.
About the Mount Baker Amateur Radio Club (MBARC) Digital Group (DG)
The Digital Group (DG) is a technically oriented subsidiary group of
the Mount Baker Amateur Radio Club (MBARC) in Bellingham, Whatcom
County, Washington that is focused on data communications in Amateur
Radio. The goal of the DG is to help DG members and especially
newcomers to Amateur Radio, and Amateur Radio Operators new to data
modes, understand and use Amateur Radio data communications modes
effectively. Most of the DG’s usage of Data Communications occurs on
the Amateur Radio VHF and UHF bands within Whatcom County and
surrounding areas. Information about the Digital Group can be found at
https://mbarc.groups.io/g/main/wiki/28088.
Joining the DG
Membership in the Digital Group is an add-on to MBARC membership. DG
membership dues are $10/year (in addition to MBARC membership dues).
DG dues are used to support various projects relating to the focus of
the DG, such as building Amateur Radio data communications
infrastructure such as digipeaters. To pay your dues, either send a
check to MBARC Digital Group, PO Box 981, Bellingham, WA 98227 or
(electronic payment - more info next month).
DG Meetings
The DG meets on the third Tuesday of each month, beginning at 18:30
Pacific. The DG meets at the Ferndale, WA library in the Meeting Room.
During COVID-19 restrictions we've met via Zoom videoconference. The
link for the Zoom videoconference is published on the DG’s email list.
You do not have to be a member of the DG to attend the physical or
virtual meetings.
DG Email Discussion List
The DG uses Google Groups for its email list. If you're a Gmail user,
you can browse to https://groups.google.com/g/nwwdigi and search for
"Northwest Washington Digital Amateur Radio" and subscribe to the DG
mailing list there. Gmail users can view archives of previous
discussion threads.
If you're not a Gmail user, to subscribe to the DG email list, send an
email (no subject or body text) to
nwwdigi+...@googlegroups.com
You do not have to be a member of the DG to subscribe to the DG email
list. Requests to join the DG email list are moderated to attempt to
minimize spammers and spamming.
We are always looking for interesting topics to discuss about Amateur
Radio data communications. Please let me know of topics (and speakers)
that you'd like to see at a future DG Meeting.
Steve Stroh N8GNJ
MBARC Digital Group President 2021-2022
--
Steve Stroh steve...@gmail.com
Editor
Zero Retries Newsletter - https://zeroretries.substack.com
(new) Twitter - @zeroretries
It's once again time for the Mount Baker Amateur Radio Club (MBARC)
Digital Group (DG) to meet "Brady Bunch" style on Zoom. We meet to
discuss all things digital (mostly data) in Amateur Radio. Of
particular interest to the MBARC DG is the use of the WB7FHC / AG7GN
Nexus DR-X units (http://wb7fhc.com/intro.html) and HamWAN / AREDN
microwave networking here in Whatcom County.
MBARC DG meets the third Tuesday of each month at 19:00 Pacific. Some
of us gather early for casual chatting.
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84786930504?pwd=YTlsZEs4dGRIMEdKUzVnckhodVNFdz09
Topics for this meeting include:
Introductions of those new to Amateur Radio and/or the Digital Group,
including non DG guests.
Bryan Hoyer K7UDR will join us to discuss the grant proposal that the
San Juan County Amateur Radio Society is putting together to create a
new HamWAN node (and perhaps AREDN) nodes on Mt. Constitution on Orcas
Island.
Steve Magnuson AG7GN will discuss:
* The most recent updates he's done to the Nexus DR-X image -
https://github.com/AG7GN/images.
* The breakage in the Nexus DR-X AX25 library and how to fix it.
* Demo of the flexibility of the Nexus DR-X in remotely powering
on/off a Yaesu FT-857 (with no relays!).
Budd Churchward WB7FHC will talk about doing our Sunday morning 09:00
fsq chats on a repeater versus simplex, which is becoming increasingly
hit-and-miss due to varying antenna systems, radios, etc. (FSQ works
fine on FM repeaters).
Andy Sayler KF7VOL and I will walk through our presentation of the
Whatcom County Multipurpose Remote Nodes we (tried to do) for the 2021
ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference on Saturday
2021-09-18. The paper we submitted for inclusion in the 2021 DCC
Proceedings can be accessed at TAPR DCC 2021 - TAPR DCC 2021 -
https://www.superpacket.org/2021/09/tapr_dcc_2021_multipurpose_remote_nodes.pdf.
I will touch briefly on some of the other interesting presentations
and papers at the just-concluded 2021 ARRL and TAPR Digital
Communications Conference.
Andy and Steve (AG7GN) may also discuss what they've been working on
as a Remote Node to be installed on Lookout Mountain.
Rob Sipes KG7GTC may have an update on the MBARC website -
https://mbarc.groups.io. I have populated the Digital Group section of
the new website - please take a look -
https://mbarc.groups.io/g/main/wiki/28088.
I will discuss a request from the Bellingham Makerspace to include
some "Amateur Radio Eye Candy" for the Makerspace in time for their
Maker Faire on October 9th -
https://bellinghammakerspace.org/posts/maker-faire-and-september-newsletter/.
What I'm thinking of is interesting mapes (or other visually
interesting displays of Amateur Radio activity) on a monitor, running
on a Raspberry Pi:
* Display of APRS (web browser running aprs.fi for Whatcom County)
* WSPR display
* Suggestions for other interesting displays?
The usual show and tell of any projects or activities that you've done
that are "Amateur Radio Digital".
IF there is time, I'd like to lead a discussion (20 minutes max) about
projects / ideas for the coming year for MBARC DG.
Administrivia:
The MBARC DG thanks Budd Churchward WB7FHC for the use of his
business-grade Zoom account for conducting the MBARC meetings.
WEBSITE UPDATE: Note that the MBARC website is being converted to a
groups.io site: https://mbarc.org redirects to
https://mbarc.groups.io/g/main. Your browser MAY change
https://mbarc.org to https://www.mbarc.org which will fail; just
retype to not have the www and it will redirect correctly.
About the Mount Baker Amateur Radio Club (MBARC) Digital Group (DG)
The Digital Group (DG) is a technically oriented subsidiary group of
the Mount Baker Amateur Radio Club (MBARC) in Bellingham, Whatcom
County, Washington that is focused on data communications in Amateur
Radio. The goal of the DG is to help DG members and especially
newcomers to Amateur Radio, and Amateur Radio Operators new to data
modes, understand and use Amateur Radio data communications modes
effectively. Most of the DG’s usage of Data Communications occurs on
the Amateur Radio VHF and UHF bands within Whatcom County and
surrounding areas. Information about the Digital Group can be found at
https://mbarc.groups.io/g/main/wiki/28088.
Joining the DG
Membership in the Digital Group is an add-on to MBARC membership. DG
membership dues are $10/year (in addition to MBARC membership dues).
DG dues are used to support various projects relating to the focus of
the DG, such as building Amateur Radio data communications
infrastructure such as digipeaters. To pay your dues, either send a
check to MBARC Digital Group, PO Box 981, Bellingham, WA 98227 or
(electronic payment - more info next month).
DG Meetings
The DG meets on the third Tuesday of each month, beginning at 18:30
Pacific. The DG meets at the Ferndale, WA library in the Meeting Room.
During COVID-19 restrictions we've met via Zoom videoconference. The
link for the Zoom videoconference is published on the DG’s email list.
You do not have to be a member of the DG to attend the physical or
virtual meetings.
DG Email Discussion List
The DG uses Google Groups for its email list. If you're a Gmail user,
you can browse to https://groups.google.com/g/nwwdigi and search for
"Northwest Washington Digital Amateur Radio" and subscribe to the DG
mailing list there. Gmail users can view archives of previous
discussion threads.
If you're not a Gmail user, to subscribe to the DG email list, send an
email (no subject or body text) to
nwwdigi+...@googlegroups.com
You do not have to be a member of the DG to subscribe to the DG email
list. Requests to join the DG email list are moderated to attempt to
minimize spammers and spamming.
We are always looking for interesting topics to discuss about Amateur
Radio data communications. Please let me know of topics (and speakers)
that you'd like to see at a future DG Meeting.
Steve Stroh N8GNJ
MBARC Digital Group President 2021-2022
--
Steve Stroh steve...@gmail.com
Editor
Zero Retries Newsletter - https://zeroretries.substack.com
(new) Twitter - @zeroretries
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