SEDALIA – PETTIS AMATEUR RADIO KLUB
Serving Pettis and surrounding counties
I checked the APRS map this morning and caught Mark, K0NYE road trippin’. He hit the Sedalia Igate past where he crossed the river at Lexington. Google Maps measured it at 49 miles. Something to be said about having your Igate antenna at 400+ feet!
Update: I looked again later and he hit the Sedalia Igate when he was passing through Polo at 72 miles. Good job on the Igate Steve and Doc!
Here’s a net from the Stover repeater from 2009 featuring several memorable SKs.
Tom Huff, N0AYI, SK (in the city of Vesailles) Calls the net. Dick Hunt, KC0FDF, SK, Paul Minor, AA0XG, SK checks in as well as Art Thompson, KC0QMP, SK.
Several others who are not SK check in including our very own KJ5ZW (14 years younger than now!) that gets to talk to his son in Texas via Echolink.
I recorded this on the same radio that I was transmitting on, so portions of it are inaudible including the Echolink.
As some of you may have noticed, our Broadcastify stream has been supplying only the 2m repeater for some time due to a radio failure.
The stream has now been restored and actually upgraded!
Now, it provides simultaneously, the 147.03 repeater, 224.44 repeater, and I have, with the acquisition of a new radio, been able to add the 53.11 six meter repeater and the 147.575 simplex frequency.
147.03 has priority over all others.
Enjoy and please report any issues.
73, Chris – KC0TKS
**UPDATE**: A Bandaid fix has been applied and so far seems to help. Please give it a try and report back to admin@wa0sdo.org. Hope this helps Doc who I assume is deployed with FEMA.
Six of you streamed the net last evening (Oct. 2). Please give me some feedback on your audio quality so I can finalize the repair.
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The Broadcastify feed, although still listed as “online” is down until further notice.
Somewhere along the way the live stream developed a loud screech on some but not all transmissions and I just noticed it. I find nothing wrong on my end and Broadcastify can find nothing wrong on their end. My trouble ticket even got escalated to the CEO of the company and she investigated herself and came up with nothing. The story of my life – “wow, I’ve never seen that problem before”!
Looks like it is going to take some down and dirty troubleshooting to find this one.
Chris – KC0TKS
I did it. Daren did it. Don did it. You should do it too! Free money for our club! Read on...
I successfully switched my charity on Amazon today to SPARK.
This means that every purchase I make on Amazon donates .5% of my purchase prices to the club. Doesn’t sound like much but when enough people do it, it could be significant. Get your family, friends and everyone at work to do it and the club could get a couple hundred dollars a year of free money with almost no effort!
Instead of shopping at www.amazon.com, log in to smile.amazon.com. Once you set your charity to Sedalia Pettis Amateur Radio Klub, all purchases that you make donate directly to SPARK. Takes all of 30 seconds to set up.
The smile website is identical to the www one, including prices.
"Dear AmazonSmile customer, Thanks for visiting AmazonSmile! Per your request, we have successfully changed the AmazonSmile charity you are supporting to Sedalia Pettis Amateur Radio Klub. Remember, if you want AmazonSmile to donate to Sedalia Pettis Amateur Radio Klub, you need to start each shopping session at the URL smile.amazon.com or with AmazonSmile turned ON in the Amazon Shopping app, and we will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases. Visit Your AmazonSmile Impact to see donation information and learn more about your charity. AmazonSmile: You shop. Amazon gives. smile.amazon.com"
This was overheard on the 147.03 repeater Saturday evening. The recording is from 6:42 – 7:12pm (silent periods are removed).
I don’t know if this is legitimate repeater use or not, I don’t speak Spanish, but at times I heard numbers which I guess could be part of a call sign. However, I also heard curse words which leads me to think this was unauthorized use.
If any of you speak Spanish well enough to translate, or know someone who can, give it a listen and email admin@wa0sdo.org and I will post your findings.
There are more times this was heard on Saturday afternoon. Anyone with a premium Broadcastify account can search the archives and listen to more of it.