ORCA DIGITAL NET

ORCA DIGITAL NET 06/sep/16 check-in/rotation:

Check-ins: 10
Stations:
W1EEP Gene Pine Valley,UT
WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT
WB6SDR Ralph Folsom,CA
KG7PBX Linda Cedar City,UT in&out
KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT
KG7VEJ Jack Kanarraville,UT in&out
N6IET Rick Los Angeles,CA in&out
W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR
KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA
K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS

Nuts! I lost two paragraphs of Net Report on the clipboard. I don’t remember what I said. Mindy was editing noise out of the log and I lost the text while merging the docs. Anyway, nice net as usual. The band was poor a little before the net for phone, but OK for digital. I did have difficulty copying Linda KG7PBX in UT. Some due to doubling, I think.

During check-in, I missed ‘in&out’ on two of three stations tonight. Mindy runs the weekly FLAMP practice session and works from her own list. She had all the in&out’s correct, but I interrupted her, thinking she was skipping stations. Digital NCS can be challenging. I work with numerous apps open on the desktop and I’m sometimes in an editor or callsign lookup app while others are sending. Occasionally, I ask Mindy, who is sending?, but I’m not looking at fldigi and miss the message. Or, I’m in the macro editor, changing callsign buttons, or revising the rotation list.

I’m not complaining. I really appreciate this opportunity to learn and practice digital NCS. I couldn’t do it w/o you.

Traffic included two images tonight. Images make interesting traffic and practicing the process is important. There may be lots of images sent in emergencies. Nice to include them in QSOs too. Ralph WB6SDR related a story of the value of a 3D satellite image of a wildfire to the Incident Commander on the fireground. A simple image may be better than a detailed verbal description.

TX: WA7HHE  RX: W7ZAP	TX: WA7HHE   RX: K7KY

 

TX: KR7KR RX: W7ZAP	TX: KR7KR  RX: K7KY

 

TX: K7KY

You can also send the b/w logo we use for signal evaluation. I TX this image every net, but seldom decode myself. You can copy and save the image for future TX.

Nice to see members working together on 3.581 prior to net. Mindy & I usually test on Tues afternoons and it’s not unusual to have ORCA members pop in. I wouldn’t think 5w would be working UT on 80m in the afternoon, but there it is with digital. Nice to have more UT stations working with us. Welcome, Ken KR7KR in Cedar City,UT and Jack KG7VEJ in Kanarraville,UT.

We want to try a brief check-in net for daytime digital work. We do need to know where we can work in an emergency. 7.122 was our original 40m alternate. It would be good to include a UT, WA,& CenCA station. We’ll call a daytime net on Saturday Sept 17^th @ 2000z/1300p, 7.122 & 3.581, MFSK-32. We’ll begin on 40m and then try 80m. If you don’t hear us on 40m, we’ll be on 80m in a few minutes. It will be a short net. Mark your calendar and see if you can work us in the daytime on 40/80m.

Thanks for working with us tonight. I hope to see you all again next Tuesday evening.

73 Doug K7KY

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Early ORCA Check-Ins:

W1EEP Gene Pine Valley,UT

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT

WB6SDR Ralph Folsom,CA

KG7PBX Linda Cedar City,UT in&out

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS < K7KY

ORCA DIGITAL NET early check-in < K7KY

K7KY de KR7KR

Cedar City, Utah

KR7KR RR Ken… tu < K7KY

Early ORCA Check-Ins:

W1EEP Gene Pine Valley,UT

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT

WB6SDR Ralph Folsom,CA

KG7PBX Linda Cedar City,UT in&out

KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS < K7KY

K7KY

Greetings ORCA de KG7VEJ

Tawnee “Jack” Coulter

Kanarraville, Utah DM37jm

In and Out

73

KG7VEJ < K7KY GE Jack tu for the check in ur on the log.. < K7KY

09/06/2016 19:32 PDT

Welcome to the ORCA DIGITAL NET – Doug K7KY-NCS

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

Software: FLDIGI, FLMSG, FLAMP – MFSK-32

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: orcadigitalnet.com/quick-start/

Following check-in NCS sends:

1) Test image for band evaluation

2) Rotation list

3) Announcements

Volunteer conducts brief FLAMP practice 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.

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

K7KY de N6IET IN & OUT

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Sending Pic:144×140; < K7KY<STX>

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:mg:328 ORCA DIGITAL NET 06/sep/16 check-in/rotation:

Check-ins:9

Stations:

W1EEP Gene Pine Valley,UT

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT

WB6SDR Ralph Folsom,CA

KG7PBX Linda Cedar City,UT in&out

KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT

KG7VEJ Jack Kanarraville,UT

N6IET Rick Los Angeles,CA

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS

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ORCA Announcements 06/sep/16

Last week’s FLAMP/Edit exercise went quite well. If you missed it, we’ll do it again

soon. It adds a few elements of digital traffic exchange we’ve not practiced. You can

find your FLAMP files quickly using the ‘FOLDERS’ tab on the upper left ‘FILE’ menu

on the FLAMP RX page.

The exercise went very quickly, actually. Everyone completed the exercise, even though

those who missed the previous net had to sort it out on the fly during the net. Quite a

testament to the digital skills of ORCA Ops. We can do this exercise once a month or on

any sked you like. We can replace the weekly FLAMP practice exercise with the Edit/Save

exercise once or twice a month to keep things interesting.

Tonight, we’re back to our normal routine with the weekly FLAMP practice message by

Mindy W7ZAP just prior to the Traffic round.

Tonight, the Humboldt Co,CA Ops are @ ARC meetings. If you would like to TX brief

bulletins from your local NBEMS or ARC groups, let me know.

Weekly Net Report/Log usually posted by Wednesday @: orcadigitalnet.com/reports/

If you need to leave early, please check-out. < K7KY

Questions or comments? < K7KY

OK time for our weekly FLAMP practice message we’ll try to fill this short message to all stations… Over to Mindy W7ZAP for the

exercise… < K7KY

ORCA DIGITAL NET DE W7ZAP

<PROG 18 4CFF>{EF0A}FLAMP 2.2.03

<FILE 33 40B7>{EF0A}20160906235020:FLAMPmsg.txt

<ID 26 8153>{EF0A}W7ZAP Brookings, OR

<SIZE 14 3CA2>{EF0A}173 4 48

<DATA 56 47F4>{EF0A:1}ORCA DIGITAL NET, Weekly FLAMP practice message.

<DATA 56 FC19>{EF0A:2} We’ll attempt to fill this message to all stat

<DATA 56 2CB5>{EF0A:3}ions. If you CONFIRM the message, NCS may ask yo

<DATA 37 8810>{EF0A:4}u to RELAY the fill blocks.

<CNTL 10 CDB8>{EF0A:EOF}

<CNTL 10 6DB4>{EF0A:EOT}

DE W7ZAP K

W1EEP

For the weekly FLAMP practice message we try

to fill 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

WA7HHE

WB6SDR

DE WB6SDR

File : FLAMPmsg.txt

<MISSING 15 90E4>{EF0A}CONFIRMED

DE WB6SDR K

KR5KR

De KR7KR NO COPY

RR and sri for the 5 instead of a “7” Ken… TU BREAK WB6SDR Ralph… you were the only station to copy… will you please relay?? <

W7ZAP

DE WB6SDR

FLAMP Relay

<PROG 18 4CFF>{EF0A}FLAMP 2.2.03

<FILE 33 40B7>{EF0A}20160906235020:FLAMPmsg.txt

<ID 26 8153>{EF0A}W7ZAP Brookings, OR

<SIZE 14 3CA2>{EF0A}173 4 48

<DATA 56 47F4>{EF0A:1}ORCA DIGITAL NET, Weekly FLAMP practice message.

<DATA 56 FC19>{EF0A:2} We’ll attempt to fill this message to all stat

<DATA 56 2CB5>{EF0A:3}ions. If you CONFIRM the message, NCS may ask yo

<DATA 37 8810>{EF0A:4}u to RELAY the fill blocks.

<CNTL 10 CDB8>{EF0A:EOF}

<CNTL 10 6DB4>{EF0A:EOT}

DE WB6SDR K

DE W1EEP

File : Unassigned

<MISSING 8 F6CD>{EF0A}3

DE W1EEP K

DE WA7HHE

File : FLAMPmsg.txt

<MISSING 15 90E4>{EF0A}CONFIRMED

DE WA7HHE K

K7KY < W7ZAP Doug will you relay block 3 pls? < W7ZAP

RR

DE K7KY

FLAMP Relay

<DATA 56 2CB5>{EF0A:3}ions. If you CONFIRM the message, NCS may ask yo

<CNTL 10 CDB8>{EF0A:EOF}

<CNTL 10 6DB4>{EF0A:EOT}

DE K7KY K

DE W1EEP

File : Unassigned

<MISSING 14 E3BC>{EF0A}PREAMBLE

DE W1EEP K

<STX>

DE K7KY

FLAMP Relay

<PROG 18 4CFF>{EF0A}FLAMP 2.2.03

<FILE 33 40B7>{EF0A}20160906235020:FLAMPmsg.txt

<ID 26 8153>{EF0A}W7ZAP Brookings, OR

<SIZE 14 3CA2>{EF0A}173 4 48

<CNTL 10 CDB8>{EF0A:EOF}

<CNTL 10 6DB4>{EF0A:EOT}

DE K7KY K

DE W1EEP

File : FLAMPmsg.txt

<MISSING 15 90E4>{EF0A}CONFIRMED

DE W1EEP K

OK that was good on the RALAYS thanks to all. Band is up and down I guess… Back to NCS < W7ZAP

W7ZAP TU Mindy… BREAK we had a small glitch here I didn’t log two stations in&out N6IET & KG7VEJ I somehow missed when they logged in and I confused Mindy… anyway, were OK and time to move on to Traffic let’s check for late/visitors first any stations wanting to check in come now… < K7KY

Before traffic, we’ll ask Mindy to relay the bulletin from Humboldt Co ARC’s they are all in meetings tonight… over to W7ZAP for bulletin relay… < K7KY

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:inc:36 RELAY from W7ZAP to ORCA DIGITAL NET

:to:17 Humboldt & Beyond

:fm:10 MJ Inabnit

:d1:8 09/05/16

:t1:5 0133Z

:sb:17 Humboldt bulletin

:s1:11 Jaye ke6sls

:p3:18 Eureka! California

:mg:1179 Humboldt Amateur Radio Club regular monthly meeting Tomorrow (Tuesday, September 6th) at 1900L, Eureka downtown fire

station training room.

Far West Repeater Asociation picnic is this Sunday, September 11 in Scotia. Everyone is invited to attent the rag chew and pot luck. Bring your dishes and food to share! Need help finding the park? Just use the FWRA Repeater 146.760 PL103.5.

Technician class Amateur Radio classes start next Monday, September 12th. Don Campbell, KE6HEC is the contact for this class and can be contacted at 834-0042, or email ke6hec@arrl.net. The cost for the book is $35, the class is free of charge. The classes will take place at the down town Eureka Fire Department, 533 “C” street (6th & C). Classes from from 7PM to 9PM each Monday evening for 12 weeks.

The next amateur (Ham) license exam session will be in Eureka on Saturday, September 17th at 10:00am–walk-ins allowed. Contact Irma at 707-826-0767, or hamradio1991@hotmail.com. Location is the Eureka Fire Dept Classrooms, 6th & C street.

Send any bulletins or announcements for the Eureka Emergency VHF Net to wa6nbg@yahoo.com.

This ends the digital message for September 5th, 2016.

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TU Mindy we begin Traffic rotation tonight with W1EEP Gene… < K7KY

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:mg:162 K7KY DOUG W1EEP THE WEATHER HERE IN PINE VALLEY HAS GONE INTO FALL IT LOOKS LIKE AS WE SEE SOME OF THE TREE START TO CHANGE COLOR. TEMP 39 THIS AM.

W1EEP GENE

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W1EEP TU Gene… I don’t like the sound of this… I’m hoping for a long indian summer, here.. BREAK WA7HHE Brad ur up for traffic… < K7KY

Wa7hhe pic doing some repeater work in California on a wildland fire

WA7HHE Very cool, Brad I like to see images on the net… we likely will send & rx lots of images in emergency condx… BREAK WB6SDR OK Ralph ur turn for traffic… < K7KY

WB6SDR

Ralph

Folsom, CA

My Comments from file.

 

The following RX report is for Sept 6, 2016 at station WB6SDR Folsom, CA.

using a 80M inverted V at 55 ft. and Yaesu FT897D with 20 W.output.

S/N Display:

Sometimes if the Op Mode is set wrong the S/N won’t display, therefore, always check the setup because sometimes things change.

I got a clear ORCA image and ORCA-007.b2s message fine.

Brad’s picture was a nice color snapshot of who, a firefighter radio man?

/* Some stations loged prior to net using Flamp practice sessions */

CALL `Name Location S-Meter

W1EEP Gene Pine Valley,UT S9+10 dB

KR7KR Ken Cedar City, UT S8

WA7HHE Brad Cedar City, UT

KG7VEJ “Jack” Kanarraville, UT S9 on peaks

KG7PBX Linda Cedar City, UT

W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR S9+20 dB

K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS < K7KY S9+10 dB

KR7KR Ken Ceder City,UT

N6IET Rick LA S9+10 dB

73’s

Ralph

BTU NCS

WB6SDR Tnx Ralph.. nice report… Mindy has a stronger signal @ ur QTH than I do what’s up with that? BREAK KR7KR OK Ken up to you for traffic… < K7KY

Sending Pic:329×407;omebrew Project

de KR7KR

KR7KR Tnx Ken… I didn’t know this guy had an Amateur license… BREAK W7ZAP OK Mindy over to you… < K7KY

OK I’m going to send in MFSK64 then will come back to MFSK32…

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:p1:13 Brookings, OR

:fm:11 W7ZAP Mindy

:p2:25 35w 135ft doublet @ 110ft

:d1:10 2016-08-30

:t1:5 1948Z

:sb:44 Upcoming Digital Contests: Sept 9 – 12, 2016

:mg:460

NCCC RTTY Sprint: 0145Z-0215Z, Sep 9

Mode: RTTY

SARL Field Day Contest: 1000Z, Sep 10 to 1000Z, Sep 11

Mode: CW, SSB, Digital

Bands: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m

Russian Cup Digital Contest: 1500Z-1859Z, Sep 10 and 0600Z-0959Z, Sep 11

Mode: RTTY, BPSK63

Bands: 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m

ARRL September VHF Contest: 1800Z, Sep 10 to 0300Z, Sep 12

Mode: ALL

Bands: 50 MHz and up

For more contests & links to rules:

http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.php

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ALL ORCA < W7ZAP Back to MFSK32 and back to NCS < W7ZAP

W7ZAP TU Mindy BREAK

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

That concludes the Traffic round, we now return to the top for comments… beginning with Gene W1EEP < K7KY

DOUG BAND IN AND OUT TONIGHT BUT WANT TO THANK ALL WHO ARE UP FOR IT. DOUG SORRY BUT I THINK FALL IS HERE DE W1EEP

W1EEP Well, I don’t mind if it’s there, but I don’t want it too early here we’ve just begun to harvest apples and have lots of other things to do before fall BREAK WA7HHE OK Brad ur turn for comments, observations, etc… < K7KY

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Good to be back on the net, this operator missed last weeks net while participating in a County Mass Casualty Incident Exercise.

Senerio included two aircraft colliding, Fire, EMS, Public Safety, CERT/Rainbow Canyons Amateur Radio Ecomm Group responded.

Crash victums were from our local university nursing program and university helicopter school. 52 victums were involed in the Incident with transport to our local hospital.

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WA7HHE Wow, Brad sounds like a major drill w/ lots of people… tu BREAKWB6SDR Ralph.. ur up for comments… < K7KY

I just got back from Cables Lake on HWY 88 where I caught a bunch of trout. I had a grate time camping in my Casita 17′ trailer and fishing.

73’s

-Ralph

BTU NCS

WB6SDR Oh, catching trout sounds great… tu Ralph… BREAK KR7KR OK Ken over to you for any comments, reception reports, or observations…. < K7KY

K7KY de KR7KR

Good Practice

Thanks for the net

73 de KR7KR

KR7KR FB Ken… the net is fun to run and work… tu for joining us and participating… BREAK W7ZAP OK Mindy u have the red lantern tonight… < K7KY

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35w 135ft doublet @ 110ft

W7ZAP copied the following stations:

W1EEP 100% KBD, FLMSG copy (S8 s/n=6dB)

WA7HHE 100% KBD, image copy (S9 s/n=5dB)

WB6SDR 100% KBD copy (S9 s/n=dB)

KG7PBX 0% KBD copy

KR7KR 100% KBD, image copy (S9 s/n=5dB)

KG7VEJ 100% KBD copy (S8 s/n=2dB)

N6IET 100% KBD copy (S8 s/n=2dB)

K7KY 100% KBD, FLMSG, image copy

Funny condx tonight… I could hardly hear KG7PBX Linda’s signal, but nothing on WF and no printing. Welcome to KR7KR Ken who’s checked in before. Guess stations didn’t copy my FLAMP very well either… good to practice RELAY function. Cool image Brad… some noise, but it’s worth 1000 words! Good copy on Ken’s image too! Nice to see images TXed on the net.

73,

Mindy W7ZAP

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W7ZAP TU Mindy nice report BREAK Nice to see some images tonight…. Although Ken’s image was larger than some, it was in B/W and came as quickly as a smaller image in color…. I’ll include tonight’s images in the net report… any further comments or observations before we close? < K7KY

OK we’ll close up for the nite… thanks for taking time to work with us tonight… I always enjoy these nets and we are certainly develop deeper digital skills…

This concludes the ORCA DIGITAL NET

for: 09/06/2016 20:22 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

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KE6SLS GE Jaye.. ur just in time to make the log… how went ur meetings? < K7KY