ORCA DIGITAL NET

ORCA DIGITAL NET 04/July/17 Check-in/Rotation:

Check-ins: 11
Stations:
KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA
KD7CL Craig Riverton,OR in&out
N7SND Larry Cedar City,UT in&out
WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT
AG7RV Dick Reno,NV in&out
KA7FOO Doug Reno,NV
N6IET Rick Los Angeles,CA in&out
KB6NN Howard Eureka,CA
KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT
W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR qru
K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS

We were surprised by the holiday check-ins. More than we anticipated, for sure. The net was unusual and brief. We skipped the weekly FLAMP exercise and the Traffic round. Comments were also short and we closed in 40min. Most of our regular Ops were here despite the holiday. Mindy & I enjoyed the early closing, but still didn’t see the fireworks. 4^th of July fog is a Brookings tradition. The City Chiefs always light the fireworks anyway, fearing the tourists will be angry and not come back. Locals would rather wait for a clear evening.

We’re working on the format for a local VHF ORCA DIGITAL NET. Initially, we thought to run our current format on VHF, but realized we’ll be working with mostly entry level digital Ops. Only three have minimal experience with FLAMP. We need to trim down a bit for our local Ops.

Our plan is to offer the net for a conditional period of 3mos. Then, we’ll know if there’s sufficient interest to continue. We have three digitally active VHF Ops who will be good-to-go quickly, so we can accomplish one of our goals in that time.

Here’s how the test image printed in Eureka,CA, about 100mi south of NCS.

RX: KE6SLS CA	RX: KB6NN CA

Thanks for checking in on the 4^th of July. We’ll be back to our regular practice net next week and we hope you’ll be working with us then. 73 Doug K7KY

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ORCA DIGITAL NET – Early check-in < K7KY

ORCA DIGITAL NET – Early check-in < K7KY

KE6SLS

KE6SLS < K7KY GE Jaye tnx for the ck-in < K7KY

KB6NN in and out

KB6NN RR Howard in&out tu < K7KY

W7GBB in and out plse

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Early ORCA Check-Ins:

KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA

KB6NN Howard Eureka,CA in&out

W7GBB Bob Renton,WA

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings QRU

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS < K7KY

ORCA DIGITAL NET – Early check-in < K7KY

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Early ORCA Check-Ins:

KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA

KB6NN Howard Eureka,CA in&out

W7GBB Bob Renton,WA in&out

K6ETA Steve Petaluma,CA

K7DV Dave Idaho Falls,ID

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT

KK6RKY Erik Trinity Center,CA

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings QRU

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS < K7KY

07/04/2017 18:14 PDT

QST & WELCOME to the ORCA DIGITAL NET

Doug K7KY NCS, Brookings,OR, 35w, 180′ Doublet @ 80′

ORCA meets every Tuesday 1930p/0230z – 3.581+1500 – MFSK-32

Software by Dave W1HKJ: FLDIGI, FLMSG, FLAMP

ORCA is a DIRECTED net, dedicated to learning and developing

digital operating skills and practicing digital traffic handling.

ORCA connects Amateur Operators with common interest in training,

information-sharing, and mutual-aid. Practice makes perfect!

New to ORCA? See: http://orcadigitalnet.com/quick-start/

Following check-in NCS sends:

1) Signal evaluation image

2) Rotation list

3) Announcements

Weekly FLAMP exercise with Mindy W7ZAP

Traffic Round: NCS calls each station in rotation

No (practice) traffic? No Problem. Send ‘QRU’.

Hold comments for Comment Round. Questions anytime.

Comment Rou

07/04/2017 18:20 PDT

QST & WELCOME to the ORCA DIGITAL NET

Doug K7KY NCS, Brookings,OR, 35w, 180′ Doublet @ 80′

ORCA meets every Tuesday 1930p/0230z – 3.581+1500 – MFSK-32

Software by Dave W1HKJ: FLDIGI, FLMSG, FLAMP

ORCA is a DIRECTED net, dedicated to learning and developing

digital operating skills and practicing digital traffic handling.

ORCA connects Amateur Operators with common interest in training,

information-sharing, and mutual-aid. Practice makes perfect!

New to ORCA? See: http://orcadigitalnet.com/quick-start/

4th of JULY SPECIAL NET TONIGHT:

CHECK-IN

ANNOUNCEMENTS

COMMENT ROUND

LOCK: fldigi cursor @ 1500,

ENABLE: RxID, AFC

DISABLE: TxID, end-of-Tx-ID, Mode-ID

DISABLE: CWID, CW-Postamble-ID, Auto-P

07/04/2017 18:22 PDT

QST & WELCOME to the 4th of JULY ORCA DIGITAL NET

Doug K7KY NCS, Brookings,OR, 35w, 180′ Doublet @ 80′

ORCA meets every Tuesday 1930p/0230z – 3.581+1500 – MFSK-32

Software by Dave W1HKJ: FLDIGI, FLMSG, FLAMP

ORCA is a DIRECTED net, dedicated to learning and developing

digital operating skills and practicing digital traffic handling.

ORCA connects Amateur Operators with common interest in training,

information-sharing, and mutual-aid. Practice makes perfect!

New to ORCA? See: http://orcadigitalnet.com/quick-start/

4th of JULY SPECIAL NET TONIGHT:

CHECK-IN

TEST IMAGE

ANNOUNCEMENTS

COMMENT ROUND

LOCK: fldigi cursor @ 1500,

ENABLE: RxID, AFC

DISABLE: TxID, end-of-Tx-ID, Mode-ID

DISABLE: CWID, CW-Postamble-ID, Auto-Pre-Tone*.

* Use brief (TUNE BUTTON) pre-tone when doubles are likely.

Unlike FLMSG, FLAMP does not detect FLAMP traffic when closed.

Configure FLDIGI to ‘AUTOSTART’ FLAMP.

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ORCA CHECK-INS COME NOW. Send CALLSIGN or Video/ID on waterfall

First time? CALL/NAME/QTH

Monitoring stations send: ‘CALLSIGN IN&OUT’

< K7KY

07/04/2017 18:27 PDT

QST & WELCOME to the 4th of JULY ORCA DIGITAL NET

Doug K7KY NCS, Brookings,OR, 35w, 180′ Doublet @ 80′

ORCA meets every Tuesday 1930p/0230z – 3.581+1500 – MFSK-32

Software by Dave W1HKJ: FLDIGI, FLMSG, FLAMP

ORCA is a DIRECTED net, dedicated to learning and developing

digital operating skills and practicing digital traffic handling.

ORCA connects Amateur Operators with common interest in training,

information-sharing, and mutual-aid. Practice makes perfect!

New to ORCA? See: http://orcadigitalnet.com/quick-start/

4th of JULY SPECIAL NET TONIGHT:

CHECK-IN

TEST IMAGE

ROTATION LIST

ANNOUNCEMENTS

COMMENT ROUND

LOCK: fldigi cursor @ 1500,

ENABLE: RxID, AFC

DISABLE: TxID, end-of-Tx-ID, Mode-ID

DISABLE: CWID, CW-Postamble-ID, Auto-Pre-Tone*.

* Use brief (TUNE BUTTON) pre-tone when doubles are likely.

Unlike FLMSG, FLAMP does not detect FLAMP traffic when closed.

Configure FLDIGI to ‘AUTOSTART’ FLAMP.

—–

ORCA CHECK-INS COME NOW. Send CALLSIGN or Video/ID on waterfall

First time? CALL/NAME/QTH

Monitoring stations send: ‘CALLSIGN IN&OUT’

< K7KY

B/W Signal Evaluation Image <IMAGE:G, /home/k7ky/Documents/orca/ORCASmallBlack.png>

Sending Pic:144×140; < K7KY

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:mg:363 ORCA DIGITAL NET 04/jul/17 Check-in/Rotation:

Check-ins: 10

Stations:

KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA

KB6NN Howard Eureka,CA in&out

W7GBB Bob Renton,WA in&out

K6ETA Steve Petaluma,CA

K7DV Dave Idaho Falls,ID

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT

W1EEP Gene Pine Valley,U

KK6RKY Erik Trinity Center,CA

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings QRU

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS

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ORCA ANNOUNCEMENTS 04 July 2017

JULY 4th HOLIDAY! Check-in & Comment Round ONLY tonight. No FLAMP

exercise or Traffic round.

Net Report posted as soon as we can…

orcadigitalnet.com/reports/

< K7KY

All ORCA I hope ur all having a great 4th of JULY today we’ll keep the net short tonight so u have time for fireworks etc we begin the

comment round in Eureka! CA with Jaye KE6SLS < K7KY

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:mg:941 For Operation Pathfinder Triton 32 we anticipated 100+ digital messages. Local Amateurs were stationed at the Brookings EOC and the St.

Tim’s CCP (Casualty Collection Point), both FLDIGI stations. I was preparing to be the 2m digital Relay from my home station. All traffic would

use the ICS 213. All our traffic during the exercise began and ended with “THIS IS AN EXERCISE”.

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EOC > W7ZAP (Relay)

KJ7JOY > EOC

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All ORCA are there any further comments for the net tonight? < K7KY

any last minute ck-ins? < K7KY

K7KY *** TUNING *** < K7KY

This concludes the ORCA DIGITAL NET

for: 07/04/2017 18:44 PDT

Thanks for committing your time and attention

to practicing digital traffic handling with us tonight.

We hope to work with you again next week.

‘Practice makes Perfect’

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after closing and letting those with plans to leave cu then… 73 < K7KY

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ORCA DIGITAL NET – Early check-in < K7KY

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and hope everyone has had and still are having a great holiday.

This is the Greatest Nation on earth. No other county on earth

have the freedoms that we do. God bless you and God bless

these United States of American.

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K7KY de N7SND Happy Birthday to this Great Nation

and hope everyone has had and still are having a great holiday.

This is the Greatest Nation on earth. No other county on earth

have the freedoms that we do. God bless you and God bless

these United States of American.

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Early ORCA Check-Ins:

KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA

KD7CL Craig Riverton,OR in&out

N7SND Larry Cedar City,UT in&out

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT

AG7RV Dick Reno,NV in&out

KA7FOO Doug Reno,NV

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR qru

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS < K7KY

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I just ordered me an Alpha Loop today. Should have it in a couple of weeks.

It will cover 10 thru 80 (with extra loop).

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07/04/2017 19:30 PDT

QST & WELCOME to the 4th of JULY ORCA DIGITAL NET

Doug K7KY NCS, Brookings,OR, 35w, 180′ Doublet @ 80′

ORCA meets every Tuesday 1930p/0230z – 3.581+1500 – MFSK-32

Software by Dave W1HKJ: FLDIGI, FLMSG, FLAMP

ORCA is a DIRECTED net, dedicated to learning and developing

digital operating skills and practicing digital traffic handling.

ORCA connects Amateur Operators with common interest in training,

information-sharing, and mutual-aid. Practice makes perfect!

New to ORCA? See: http://orcadigitalnet.com/quick-start/

4th of JULY SPECIAL NET TONIGHT:

CHECK-IN

TEST IMAGE

ROTATION LIST

ANNOUNCEMENTS

COMMENT ROUND

Following COMMENT round, all station are excused. Those who

wish to send practice traffic can remain and we’ll follow the

roster to avoid doubles.

LOCK: fldigi cursor @ 1500,

ENABLE: RxID, AFC

DISABLE: TxID, end-of-Tx-ID, Mode-ID

DISABLE: CWID, CW-Postamble-ID, Auto-Pre-Tone*.

* Use brief (TUNE BUTTON) pre-tone when doubles are likely.

Unlike FLMSG, FLAMP does not detect FLAMP traffic when closed.

Configure FLDIGI to ‘AUTOSTART’ FLAMP.

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ORCA CHECK-INS COME NOW. Send CALLSIGN or Video/ID on waterfall

First time? CALL/NAME/QTH

Monitoring stations send: ‘CALLSIGN IN&OUT’

< K7KY

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:mg:398 ORCA DIGITAL NET 04/July/17 Check-in/Rotation:

Check-ins: 11

Stations:

KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA

KD7CL Craig Riverton,OR in&out

N7SND Larry Cedar City,UT in&out

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT

AG7RV Dick Reno,NV in&out

KA7FOO Doug Reno,NV

VN6IET Rick Los Angeles,CA in&out

KB6NN Howard Eureka,CA

KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR qru

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS

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ORCA ANNOUNCEMENTS 04 July 2017

JULY 4th HOLIDAY! Check-in & Comment Round ONLY tonight. No FLAMP

exercise or Traffic round.

After our COMMENT round, we will excuse all stations. Those who

would like to send practice traffic can do so then. I would miss the

usually interesting and useful traffic we get from UT,ID,CA, etc (-:

Net Report posted as soon as we can…

orcadigitalnet.com/reports/

< K7KY

All ORCA I’m a littel off my turf tonight no usual routine.. we begin the Comment round in Eureka CA with Jaye KE6SLS < K7KY

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GE Doug and the group. I am doing my normal roster of signal reports as I go.

I have cats locked in house, my youngest is OKAY with the big bangs, but rouge cat, he is pretty darned timmid about this booming business.

He ended up staying in my lap almost the whole night last night. Buggers do not like the 4th of July!

I also watched a bit of news about VETS living in the 4th of July time, seems a lot of them do anything they can to avoid the noise. I feel for

them. BUT, I still love a popping good bang and all the lights!

I’ll post the final comments later om. I am running 50 watts, hoping i’m heard

a little further. had good daylight so my batteries are topped off.

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× eibh KE6SLS FB Jaye sounds like ur neighbors start the 4th early ur sig is solid hr s9 & 12db BREAK WA7HHE Brad ur up for

comments.. < K7KY

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My Contribution to the Nations Birthday sent to all my Grandkids.

Be safe with the fire works.

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tNeWA7HHE OK Brad we’ll look u up later and we will be taking ur traffic if u hv time… BREAK KA7FOO Doug ur up now.. < K7KY

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Good Evening ORCA Net Members

Still running mid to upper 90’s,

lows in upper 60’s lower 70’s.

You coastal boys & girls enjoy your weather!

Four fires started yesterday, still burning.

Early check-in was done on 5 Watts.

Currently running 50 Watts.

ORCA Image had some “fuz”, not the best conditions.

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tjadKA7FOO RR Doug not good news abt the fires and I forgot to ask Brad abt the fires around his town.. ur 5w was as good as 50w

BREAK KB6NN Howard ur up now… < K7KY

aleliteSLS Jaye Eureka,CA +10db 100% keyboard

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT -12db no copy

KA7FOO Doug Reno,NV -9db marginal copy no FLMSG

KB6NN Howard Eureka,CA (5w qrp here low dipole)

KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT no report yet

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR qru no report yet

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS +10db 100% kbd/FLMSG image 80%

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KB6NN Howard, ur 5w doing very well hr… S7 & 4db BREAK KR7KR Ken ur up for comments… < K7KY

KR7KR Ken hw cpy? < K7KY

W7ZAP Mindy ur next… < K7KY

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ALL ORCA < W7ZAP

Wishing everyone a Happy 4th of July! Fingers crossed the coastal fog stays away for fireworks. Good copy on all.

73,

Mindy W7ZAP

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ORCA DIGITAL NET – Late/Visitor Check-in? < K7KY

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K7KY de KR7KR

good copy on most

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twZJSKR7KR RR Ken tu did u have any comments for the net? < K7KY

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Nice to see everyone on tonight

I got my Kenwood TS-590SG repaired and it seems to be working fine.

73 to all

Happy 4th of July

Enjoy the fireworks

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oaKR7KR Yo it’s doing well S8 & 8db here in Brookings,OR BREAK OK we’ve completed the holiday net and all stations are excused

from the net.. those who would like to send practice traffic stick around and we’ll go around the roster as usual… < K7KY

KE6SLS Jaye I think u hv something to send… < K7KY

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ORCA de ke6sls

rg. Okay, here’s the rest of my stuff…. I’ll jst

paste it in and keep it easy. I am ducking the explosions att!

ARS ke6sls running 50 watts tonight to the same low, short dipole.

I couldn’t take four days off in a row! I mowed, edged the lawn. Trimmed all the cracks, then vaccumed up the whole mess with my industrial

vac. Oh, took out the power washer and washed the work truck and my tool trailer (removed the Humboldt paint <moss/mildew>) Looks like

someone parked a whole new rig out there for me! Pulled up my sleves and put the ammonia down to stip wax from floors–gassed myself in

process, even with my resperator, but I managed to get years of crud off the floors and a new coat of wax to start the whole evil process over

again!

Still have a load of laundry to finish, but lunches, breakfasts, dinners are cooked and ready for another shorter week of slave labor!

I scanned the bands several times today, just didn’t hear ANYONE! I think the bands were open, could hear wwv on 20/15/10MHz just no ham

signals. I guess they are all out playing!

Good sunshine today. We’ve been under the marine layer for many days, so sun was actually quite welcome!

k7ky s8, 6db, p3, 100% flmsg

kb6nn s5, -5db, 100%

KA7FOO, s5, -4db, 70% cp

w7zap, s9, 8db,

KR7KR, s5, -6db, 70% cp kb, congrats on getting ur kenwood home!

band is kind of raspy here tonight. Donno why.

Hope everyone has a GREAT 4th and a GREAT week this week.

73 from Jaye, ke6sls <Eureka! Californa>

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d aeqKE6SLS TU Jaye… sounds like a great vacation for you maybe easier to stay @ work (-: BREAK WA7HHE Brad would u like to send

ur traffic now… < K7KY

tn nhaC(ire now 66% contained looking good, hardly any smoke lately , Doug if you have any idea of what causes the TxID to auto turn on let

me know. Had this happen twice tonight. de WA7HHE

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3ino.Ás WA7HHE No… I wonder if it’s the same weird feature that causes SQL to turn off all by itself too.. another strange feature I

sometimes wonder if I’m causing these things w/o knowing I’ve discovered a few things I was causing in my rush to get from one app to

another during nets… I’ll keep it in min d BREAK KA7FOO Doug any traffic tonight? < K7KY

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No traffic tonight.

KA7FOO

lso add …

Fooding in Yearington / Mason Valley from Walker River

(snow run-off).

Swan Lake flooding (North Reno Valley) is is begining

to back off.

Lake Tahoe is 1 inch below the very maximum level, still

several inches of snow run-off is coming.

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rKA7FOO Well, what’s up anyway? either fire or flood weird times.. BREAK KR7KR Ken any traffic? < K7KY

All ORCA OK Mindy W7ZAP is qru tonight too… looks like that’s it tonight… thanks for coming for the unusual net & thanks for your interest &

support. Have a great 4th holiday be safe and we hope to c u all next week when we’ll return to our regular NET and my typing will be much

better 73 Doug K7KY sk

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FB Doug. Lots of boomers going off here. I think we’ll have a noisy night, esp when the sun actaully goes down!

was hoping to get a new ham on tonight, we DID get him into the Mendo net, but still workong on the digi side.

okay, have a great night you two.

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tïezsiÙzKE6SLS RR Jaye the noise hasn’t begun hr yet… we can usually see the fireworks from our upper pad at least when it’s not foggy

which is the norm for 4th in Brookings… they always shoot them anyway because the believe the tourists would be angry have a great time

listening to the boomers and we’ll see u nxt week… 73 Doug K7KY sk < K7KY