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05 October 2016 15:19

ORCA DIGITAL NET 04/oct/16 check-in/Rotation:

Check-ins: 10
Stations:
W1EEP Gene Pine Valley,UT
KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT
K7DV Dave Idaho Falls,ID
WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT
W7GBB Bob Renton,WA
AF7NX Gary Eugene,OR
N6IET Rick Los Angeles,CA in&out
KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA
W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR
K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS

Well, the band was pretty wonky before net, but settled down and we did well. Our Humboldt County Ops were busy with ARC meetings tonight, but Jaye KE6SLS manage to check-in at closing. Good thing too; he copied the exercise traffic and will make it available to other ARC members who missed the net. Still, we had ten check-ins and completed the net in an hour. Before net, I was wondering if I would have difficulty connecting the UT & ID stations, but no. We were able to complete every message in MFSK-32 with a couple fills.

All our traffic, formal and practice, provides the opportunity to develop or digital skills. It’s nice to have a mix of articles, observations, images, & QRU’s. We’ll encounter them all in emergency situations. It also helps keep the net interesting while we learn and practice.

We’re doing well with FLAMP and making use of the FETCH and RELAY features nearly every net. I hope you don’t find the FLAMP exercises too pedestrian. They emphasize the more mundane tasks of manipulating files within the OS. There’s much to digital traffic handling that’s common to many basic computer tasks. Familiarity with all aspects of digital traffic will make us competent and confident digital Operators.

If you are interested in calling a brief daytime ORCA DIGITAL NET on the weekend, please contact me. I can set you up to succeed w/o undue effort. As we’re mostly interested in learning more of daytime operating condx, the net would be brief. I would try the SATERN Int’l Digital Net format. They take check-ins and send one practice FLAMP message and only fill 5 blocks or less. They are using SATERN bulletins for practice; we would use a very short file that would require few fills. It shouldn’t take more than 20-30min. It would be good to give it a go and see if there’s enough interest to sustain it. If not, no harm done and we would be the wiser.

The band was sufficient for communications, but not so good for images:


TX: K7KY / RX: W1EEP	TX: K7KY / RX: N6IET	TX: KR7KR / RX: K7KY

Next week, Mindy W7ZAP will be out of town and I’ll be running solo. Not a big deal, but we’ve run the net together from the outset; four years now. I’ve come to rely on a 2^nd Op tracking net activities. If I fall a bit behind, you’ll know why. Thanks for taking time to work with us tonight. I hope to see you again next Tuesday evening. 73 Doug K7KY

———– Net Log —————–

Early ORCA Check-Ins:

W1EEP Gene Pine Valley,UT

KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT

K7DV Dave Idaho Falls,ID

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT

W7GBB Bob Renton,WA

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS

< K7KY

ORCA DIGITAL NET early check-in < K7KY

AF7NX please check me in.

AF7NX GE Gary ur on the log tu < K7KY

10/04/2016 19:30 PDT

Welcome to the ORCA DIGITAL NET – Doug K7KY-NCS

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

Software: FLDIGI, FLMSG, FLAMP

ORCA is a DIRECTED net, dedicated to learning and developing

digital operating skills and practicing digital traffic handling.

The net connects Amateur Operators with common interest in training,

information-sharing, and mutual-aid. Visitors always welcome.

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

Following check-in NCS sends:

1) Test image for signal evaluation

2) Rotation list

3) Announcements

Mindy W7ZAP conducts brief FLAMP exercise.

Traffic Round: NCS calls each station in rotation

No traffic? (practice/formal) Send ‘QRU’. Check before using FLAMP.

Hold keyboard dialogue for Comment Round. Questions anytime.

Comment Round: comments, reception reports, observations, questions

(keyboard or FLMSG Form as you like)

NOTE: LOCK fldigi @ 1500, enable RxID, TxID

ENABLE: CONFIGURE/ID/RsID ‘Retain tx freq lock’

Have FLAMP open. It does not self-start.

Practice FLAMP traffic is followed with one round of FLAMP REPORTS

and one FILL.

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

First time? CALL/NAME/QTH

Monitoring stations send: ‘CALLSIGN IN&OUT’ < K7KY

eg f¼ibS:iZa:R@u un6iet in&out please

eÄ etRYhis auiN6IET RR Rick GE tu < K7KY

Signal Evaluation Image

Please email image & comments to:

ncs@orcadigitalnet.com

<IMAGE:G, /home/k7ky/Documents/orca/ORCASmallBlack.png>

Sending Pic:144×140; < K7KYany more check-ins? < K7KY

<STX>

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:hdr_fm:20

K7KY 20160510023532

:hdr_ed:20

K7KY 20160703235454

:mg:478 ORCA DIGITAL NET 04/oct/16 check-in/Rotation:

Check-ins: 9

Stations:

W1EEP Gene Pine Valley,UT

KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT

K7DV Dave Idaho Falls,ID

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT

W7GBB Bob Renton,WA

AF7NX Gary Eugene,OR

N6IET Rick Los Angeles,CA

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS

WB6SDR Ralph Folsom,CA

KK6RKY Eric Trinity Center,CA

KW6JIM Jim Eureka,CA in&out

KG6LHW Anthony Blue Lake,CA

AF7NX Gary Eugene,OR visitor no traffic

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Oops! please disregard the entries below my callsign it’s my housekeeping and I forgot to delete it… here comes the announcements…

ORCA Announcements 04/oct/16

Again tonight we’ll begin an exercise in file manipulation that we

will complete next week. You will receive the exercise file in the

weekly FLAMP exercise. It’s an FLMSG-Form file you will open in FLMSG,

Edit, Save, and resend in FLAMP next week. In LInux, find FLAMP messages

from the top menu, ‘FILE/FOLDERS’, and ‘ICS/MESSAGES’. Maybe the same in

Win, I’m not sure.

Remember: You can RELAY fill BLOCKS from FLAMP’s RX tab using the

FETCH and RELAY buttons. If FLAMP does not FETCH the needed BLOCKS,

you can type them into the RELAY window. Otherwise, it will send the

complete file.

After our daytime check-in on Sept 17, a number of members have suggested

we do it regularly. A good idea, I think. I can get it started, but I’d like to

enable another Op to NCS it, if anyone is interested. Maybe a quick check-in and

a short practice file, similar to the SATERN International Digital Net (Sat 1000p,

14.064.5+1500, Olivia 5/800, Ken AD5XJ NCS). We could probably wrap in 20-30min.

Weekly Net Report usually posted next day

@: orcadigitalnet.com/reports/ < K7KY

ALL ORCA Next, we’ll do the weekly FLAMP practice message… this file wil be your exercise and traffic for next week We’ll turn the net

over to Mindy W7ZAP for the exercise… over to Mindy… < K7KY

ORCA DIGITAL NET DE W7ZAP

<PROG 18 836C>{483D}FLAMP 2.2.03

<DATA 56 7851>{483D:4}3QgxaG2VEfdbhzTNCniaLG7fE2EIRcYe5XAoSGUTkzoZkUB4

<CNTL 10 6265>{483D:EOF}

<CNTL 10 C269>{483D:EOT}

DE W7ZAP K

ALL ORCA < W7ZAP

Ooops… Let’s try that again!

ORCA DIGITAL NET DE W7ZAP

<PROG 18 836C>{483D}FLAMP 2.2.03

<FILE 28 D99B>{483D}20161004230609:ex3.b2s

<ID 26 F425>{483D}W7ZAP Brookings, OR

<SIZE 15 AB69>{483D}525 11 48

<DATA 56 48CD>{483D:1}[b64:start]AUxaTUEAAAH/XQAAAAQAHhmJhvwzDh5T3dGz4

<DATA 56 519F>{483D:2}B06E10bOZBMZ0rzRfauR5ohaNpo0eu/tO5tocs9GYgrsqupq

<DATA 56 C971>{483D:3}4cVEK13IGRoo8xg95qbwVauBF7imL3ISDdzTZ/B9zHquYMvx

<DATA 56 7851>{483D:4}3QgxaG2VEfdbhzTNCniaLG7fE2EIRcYe5XAoSGUTkzoZkUB4

<DATA 56 3402>{483D:5}SctXloym/NaCN1aHjmS4guDHHZKLzpOK9mX50EQPlhaHNfq5

<DATA 56 C48C>{483D:6}wCrGOtm5imLfxywI5f0uM62t9PFfHTu1xRnD/MAbCY31VQOR

<DATA 56 D923>{483D:7}oJnSeZyz3ofLKBxuMOIXvB58MwAhTQcVBnhR4aD37Hr0E8yo

<DATA 56 1402>{483D:8}31mMFkSgXbuet23yPlybjasZv6BVXfUxeAKPAK0w92LQ3Wrj

<DATA 56 E30E>{483D:9}SKNDWcBQqIDozh7EcFksZlP6ZEYr13KXZbH5J3n1QL7Wz8ia

<DATA 57 49B7>{483D:10}daXZ/lsonixPgmA3nQKxs5Gfl5e4uywgGJGX3pdWSTX3Oh/T

<DATA 54 CFA3>{483D:11}uz8YmoDHlQIBNKplB0pMSoYimS2dJNWjg==

[b64:end]

<CNTL 10 6265>{483D:EOF}

<CNTL 10 C269>{483D:EOT}

DE W7ZAP K

every station. I will prompt you in order with

your CALLSIGN only. Press the FLAMP REPORT Button

or send, ‘No FLAMP’ or ‘No Copy’.

We begin with …

W1EEP

DE W1EEP

File : ex3.b2s

<MISSING 16 3854>{483D}1 3 10 11

DE W1EEP K

DE KR7KR

File : ex3.b2s

<MISSING 15 9729>{483D}CONFIRMED

DE KR7KR K

K7DV

K7KY DE K7DV no copy here ill wait for anopther one de K7dv

DE WA7HHE

File : ex3.b2s

<MISSING 15 9729>{483D}CONFIRMED

DE WA7HHE K

DE W7GBB

File : ex3.b2s

<MISSING 15 9729>{483D}CONFIRMED

DE W7GBB K

AF7NX

DE AF7NX

File : ex3.b2s

<MISSING 15 9729>{483D}CONFIRMED

DE AF7NX K

W7GBB < W7ZAP

Bob will you please FETCH/RELAY for W1EEP (blocks 1, 3, 10, 11)

TU < W7ZAP

WA7HHE de W7GBB

ALL ORCA < W7ZAP

That didn’t work so I’m going to ask K7KY to RELAY to W1EEP.

Over to K7KY < W7ZAP

DE K7KY

FLAMP Relay

<DATA 56 48CD>{483D:1}[b64:start]AUxaTUEAAAH/XQAAAAQAHhmJhvwzDh5T3dGz4

<DATA 56 C971>{483D:3}4cVEK13IGRoo8xg95qbwVauBF7imL3ISDdzTZ/B9zHquYMvx

<DATA 57 49B7>{483D:10}daXZ/lsonixPgmA3nQKxs5Gfl5e4uywgGJGX3pdWSTX3Oh/T

<DATA 54 CFA3>{483D:11}uz8YmoDHlQIBNKplB0pMSoYimS2dJNWjg==

[b64:end]

<CNTL 10 6265>{483D:EOF}

<CNTL 10 C269>{483D:EOT}

DE K7KY K

W7GBB < W7ZAP

Report ? < W7ZAP

W1EEP < W7ZAP

Report pls < W7ZAP

DE W1EEP

File : ex3.b2s

<MISSING 15 9729>{483D}CONFIRMED

DE W1EEP K

ALL ORCA < W7ZAP

OK that was a little more difficult than I expected. My macro goofed at the start.. OK back to K7KY NCS < W7ZAP

W7ZAP < K7KY TU Mindy it turned out fine… BREAK W7GBB Bob how goes it at your station? < K7KY

K7KY de W7GBB

I did not correctly do the relay thing but will learn thatr this week.

Confirm the FLAMP

de W7GBB

W7GBB FB Bob no problem with any errors on this net… NCS is error certral here and we do learn from errors… and, sometimes the

sofware can just drop a bit or something and goof up for us… BREAK

ORCA DIGITAL NET – Late Check-ins/Visitors? < K7KY

ALL ORCA Before Traffic, I’ll resend the rotation list as I failed to note that Rick N6IET is in&out tonight…<STX>

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K7KY 20160510025620

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K7KY 20160703235454

:mg:319 ORCA DIGITAL NET 04/oct/16 check-in/Rotation:

Check-ins: 9

Stations:

W1EEP Gene Pine Valley,UT

KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT

K7DV Dave Idaho Falls,ID

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT

W7GBB Bob Renton,WA

AF7NX Gary Eugene,OR

N6IET Rick Los Angeles,CA in&out

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS

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ALL ORCA The Humboldt County Ops are all @ ARC meetings tonight.. good thing we don’t all go to ARC meetings at once.. Now, time

for traffic round and we begin in UT with Gene W1EEP < K7KY

K7KY DE W1EEP NO MESSAGE TONIGHT SORRY ABOUT THAT

W1EEP FB Gene no traffic in usually not a problem sometimes we have too much traffic for a reasonable length net I like ti when

there’s some QRU’s and some traffic… BREAK KR7KR Ken ur turn for traffic < K7KY

Sending Pic:199×300;de KT7KR

KR7KR Cool Ken… printed very nicely here… I’ll post it to the web log BREAK K7DV OK Dave ur up next < K7KY

K7DV Hw cpy? Dave < K7KY

We’ll take another look for Dave during comments BREAK WA7HHE Brad now’s the time for your traffic.. < K7KY

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:hdr_fm:22

WA7HHE 20160510030358

:hdr_ed:22

WA7HHE 20160410232923

:tt:25 Emergency Management News

:to:8 ORCA Net

:fm:10 via WA7HHE

:dt:8 10/04/16

:tm:6 17:28L

:sb:59 Ransomware Virus Infects Honolulu Fire Department Computers

:mg:1161 (TNS) — Honolulu Fire Department personnel inadvertently downloaded a ransomware computer virus that infected about 20

HFD computers this week, forcing the department to temporarily shut down all its administrative computers.

HFD Capt. David Jenkins said the department was notified of the infection about 9 p.m. Monday and began shutting down its administrative

computers in the department’s 43 fire stations to prevent the virus from spreading. The computers are used for emails, reports and other

administrative duties.

The department’s emergency response was not affected — its computer-aided dispatch system and computers in firetrucks operate on a

separate network, he said.

The ransomware in this case, known as ODIN, is spread when a user clicks on an email link that takes the user to a webpage, where the

virus is downloaded, he said.

Read the full story:

http://www.emergencymgmt.com/safety/Ransomware-Virus-Infects-Department.html?utm_term=Ransomware%20Virus%20Infects%20Hon

olulu%20Fire%20Department%20Computers&utm_campaign=Rising%20Demand%20for%20Cybersecurity%20Employees&utm_content=

email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email

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WA7HHE TU Brad interesting article BREAK W7GBB OK Bob ur up for traffic… < K7KY

No traffic from W7GBB

K7KY de W7GBB

W7GBB FB Bob tu BREAK AF7NX Gary sorry for the delay… I couldn’t find your macro… ur up for traffic… < K7KY

AF7NX 201:0S)002Wk

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W1EEP Gene ne ValleyTUT .9uB 2ub during pic.NRwÑR ysn Cea nnty, u5uV Dave IdahetFas,ID

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT -4 to 2 dB

ÓIOBB B 5 Renton2?Á o 5517][WRAP:end]

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AF7NX Gary I missed a good bit of that one let’s try anothe mode if you like… < K7KY

de AF7NX

Pse go on and come back to me

AF7NX OK Gary… sri for that as Mindy printed your message perfectly some subtle differences in our antennas… it seems

no problem.. BREAK over to Mindy W7ZAP < K7KY

QRU here tonight < W7ZAP

W7ZAP TU MIndy BREAK AF7NX Gary you don’t need to resend if you don’t want to Mindy copied you perfectly and maybe

everyone else did too… BREAK Let’s return to the top of rotation for comments… W1EEP up to you Gene… < K7KY

MEMBERS NET TONIGHT BUT GOOD THE BAND CAME IN AND THAT WAS GOOD WEATHER WAS 28 THIS

MORNING BACK TO NET CONTROL

W1EEP 28deg doesn’t sound good to me… we’ve had cool wx and spotty rain for three days now I’m waiting for Indian summer…

BREAK KR7KR oK Ken ur turn for comments etc.. < K7KY

K7KY and the net,

Good reception on almost everthing tonight.

Did not copy AF7NX’s message (Probably the mode he used)

I won’t be able to make the net next week as Tuesday is our RCARC club meeting and I am President.

Thanks for the net.

fun practice

de KR7KR k

KR7KR OK Ken another ARC meeting… I’m glad they don’t all happen on the same Tues… we’ll see you the week after

BREAK K7DV OK Dave ur up for comments… < K7KY

K7DV Dave u still with us? < K7KY < K7KY

WA7HHE OK Brad over to you… < K7KY

de WA7HHE, I had flmsg crash on me so lost the picture to email back to NCS, other than that I really enjoying the net, half decent band this

evening, special thanks to Doug and Mindy for their dedication, really enjoy learning new features in trhe NBEMS softare rubbing shoulders

with all the net members. I’m going to miss the net next week as I will be at our club meeting. Fell bad I’ll miss our net assignment.

All the best 73’s from Cedar City, Utah- Brad

WA7HHE FB Brad we’ll look for you in two weeks, then…. Mindy & I enjoy the net and really appreciate all the digital Ops who come and share info and skills… BREAK W7GBB Bob, ur turn for comments… < K7KY

de W7GBB

Nice propagation again tonight. Signals are steady!

I printed AF7NX message fine.

My weather station reports it is 53 F outside right now.

I will only copy the net next week.

K7KY de W7GBB

Nice propagation again tonight. Signals are steady!

I printed AF7NX message fine.

My weather station reports it is 53 F outside right now.

I will only copy the net next week.

K7KY de W7GBB

Nice conditions tonight . . . the signals have been steady withg on no QSB.

53 degrees F here in Renton now.

Will only be able to copy the net next week.

K7KY de W7GBB

W7GBB FB

Bob… great signal 20 over what is your power setting? < K7KY

I will look 80 and am sorry but I am a little distant think it is helpful to be copied maybe easier.

de W7GBB K

KW7GBB Tnx Bob great signal… BREAK AF7NX Gary ur up for comments… < K7KY

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AF7NX 20160510032241

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AF7NX 20160510025910

:mg:1037 AF7NX

There will always be a hicup with a first message. I was just trying to figure out why FLMSG changed modes on me.

See it now. Won’t happen next time. I just made you all try harder to follow me! Good practice! Let see if this works.

thanks to everyone and here is my traffic with the correct modem.

de AF7NX Gary

My first FLMSG file!!

No real reason to think this will work, but what the heck!

Here is who I’m hear and how I’m hearing them:

ORCA picture is perfect!

Stations I’m hearing to night:

W1EEP Gene Pine Valley,UT -9dB 2db during pic.

KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT

K7DV Dave Idaho Falls,ID

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT -4 to 2 dB

W7GBB Bob Renton,WA 8 to 14dB 23dB

AF7NX Gary Eugene,OR

N6IET Rick Los Angeles,CA

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR 12dB

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS 7 to 10dB

My rig here is an old IC-751A with an 80m OCFD 75′ up in my fir trees. Connected to an old laptop.

Now the question is — will AUTOSEND do the job??

thanks for the excersize!

de AF7NX

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AF7NX FB Gary… you couldn’t get every flmsg right if you didn’t get the first one right.. nice work… BREAK over to Mindy W7ZAP

< K7KY

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c 20160510032539

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c 20160510023834

:mg:646 35w 135ft doublet @ 110ft

W7ZAP copied the following stations:

W1EEP 100% KBD (S8 s/n=5dB)

KR7KR 100% KBD, image (S8 s/n=6dB)

K7DV 100% KBD (S8 s/n=1dB)

WA7HHE 100% KBD, FLMSG (S8 s/n=8dB)

W7GBB 100% KBD (S9 +20 s/n=17dB) Booming signal!!

AF7NX 100% KBD, FLMSG (S9 s/n=32dB)

N6IET 100% KBD (S8)

K7KY 100% KBD, FLMSG, image

Really good copy on KR7KR Ken’s image. Haven’t heard of QRZnow.com either… will have to check it out. Interesting news about

Honolulu FD from WA7HHE. Great copy on Gary AF7NX’s 8psk125 traffic… lightning fast! Great to see you all tonight and hope you all

have a great week.

73,

Mindy W7ZAP

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W7ZAP Tnx Mindy BREAK That take us thru Traffic & Comments in less than an hour… wow

! any further comments or business for the net? please use the pretone to avoid doubles < K7KY

ORCA DIGITAL NET – Late Check-ins/Visitors? < K7KY

ALL ORCA Don’t forget, the FLAMP practice file is your traffic for next week… a simple exercise in file manipulation and resending if you

won’t be here, no worries send it next time your here… if there’s nothing further, we’ll close the net…

This concludes the ORCA DIGITAL NET

for: 10/04/2016 20:30 PDT

Thank’s for working with us tonight.

We appreciate your time and interest.

Hope to see you again next week.

73 < Doug K7KY NCS

de AF7NX

Thanks all, really learned a little this evening. Usually have my Chess game now, but will be sure to hang out here when they cancel on me

like they did this evening!

Cheers,

73 de AF7NX

F7NX Gary I forgot you play Chess tonight Glad you could work with us tonight cu when you can…. 73 Doug K7KY sk

de K7DV k

K7DV < K7KY Go ahead, Dave < K7KY

K7KY DE K7DV I didnt get the full message as I had to leave and give someonme a cab ride so if some one wants to try to send it that

would be great if not thats ok too btu k7ky de K7dv

K7DV Dave I can send it now if you like < K7KY

de ke6sls ke6sls k

K7KY DE K7DV ok thanks Ill be standing byy de K7dv

K7DV Stand by a moment, Dave BREAK KE6SLS GE Jaye… nice you could make it after ARC meeting I’m about to send the

practice file you’ll need for next week to K7DV you can pick it up too… here it comes and you’re on the log <NUL>