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SARC T- Hunt

Ahh the T-hunt! The T-hunt started simply enough on Saturday morning, 15 September. The signal

was week but the hunters were off. The Foxes for the hunt were Paula, N6VGW and Sandy,

KJ6VRW. Team Richards made it a bee line to the transmitter area while Mike, WA6ARA and Richard

KJ6VRX, were totally lost. They ended up wondering around hearing nothing. In the mean time Team

Richards zero'd in on the hidden transmitter and was found first by Erin, KJ6MQM, much to the

disappointment of brother Ryan, KJ6HBY. Eventually Mike WA6ARA had to call in to get directions to

get into the area and both Mike and Richard found the transmitter. Then the fun started, as now the

key to shut the transmitter off was lost. A quick ground search failed to locate the errant key. A screw

drive allowed the intrepid hunters to open up the box and pull the batteries.

Needless to say, the lost hunter also forgot the camera so no photos were taken.

Amateur Radio Email System

How many times has your Internet Service Provider (ISP) gone down in the last year? My previous

ISP suffered outages almost monthly. One outage lasted over 30 days. It’s bad enough not being

able to surf the web, but when you can’t send or receive emails, well, that’s just plain inexcusable!

Amateur Radio operators have an email-based system available to them called WinLink 2000

(WL2K). Winlink 2000 is a “worldwide radio messaging system that takes advantage of the Internet

wherever possible while retaining the ability to function without major parts of it”. That means if the

internet is available, you can send and receive your WL2K emails via the internet. When the internet

is unavailable, you can use RF, in this case, HF PACTOR or WINMOR, or VHF packet, to send and

receive your emails.

You only need do one thing in order to create a FREE WL2K email account. That one thing is create

and send an email using the WL2K system. Sounds easy? Well, it is. Do you have an HF rig that

has frequency control other than a VFO knob (keypad or CAT control)? Instead of HF, are you able

to bring a VHF 1200 baud packet station on the air? The recommended software for HF and VHF

packet is RMS Express which runs on Windows XP and newer operating systems. RMS Express

allows you to create, send, receive, and read emails. For packet, you can even use an MS-DOS

computer and a basic terminal program to control your packet TNC. You can inexpensive

Tigertronics BayPac ($50) modems and MS-DOS. Those old MFJ 1270/1274 TNCs will also work. If

you have a KISS TNC, you can use it with Windows 7 and RMS Express. There’s quite a list of

TNCs that are supported by RMS Express.

You can use two different modes to access the WL2K system on HF: PACTOR and WINMOR. If

you plan on using the WINMOR soundcard mode, you’ll need a soundcard system that works well

with RMS Express. The best is the Tigertronics SignaLink USB. There are less expensive units

available and some users even use their computer’s internal soundcard. Using a SignaLink USB and

a CAT controlled HF rig allows you to send and receive WL2K emails almost painlessly. Instead of a

soundcard and WINMOR, you can use a PK-232, KAM, or MFJ modem that supports PACTOR I.

The top of the line system is the SCS PTC style modems. The SCS modems will operate at

PACTOR III and IV speeds, which is incredibly fast on the HF bands.

If you don’t have an HF rig capable of digital frequency entry or are not allowed HF privileges, you

can use a VHF packet station. Once you have packet capability, you can connect to WA6YBN-10

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