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ORCA DIGITAL NET 31/oct/17 Check-in/Rotation:
Check-ins: 12
Stations:
WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT, T – K6ETA
K6ETA Steve Petaluma,CA
KA7FOO Doug Reno,NV
KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA
K6QOG Bill Cedar City,UT
KA7PAT Pat Riverton,OR in&out
KD7CL Craig Riverton,OR QNX@2000
KB6NN Howard Eureka,CA in&out
N7SND Larry Cedar City,UT
KK6JGJ Rich Oakland, CA late ck-in
W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR QRU
K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS
Although there was quite a bit of atmospheric noise in SW/OR, the band was excellent for digital comms. We did very well in the FLAMP exercise with THOR-50×1, filling with MFSK-32. I hope this is an indication of better band condx this winter. This was our 44th Flamp exercise and everyone has become most proficient. I’m frequently impressed with how smoothly we work together in a complex digital net. Two stations completed the FLAMP exercise in time for the Traffic round. Nice work. If you’re not completing this exercise during the net, don’t worry. It takes time and practice to remain engaged in net business while editing and managing files on your PC. It comes with practice.
Again tonight, we emulated a traffic or emergency net by sending stations off-freq to pass traffic. I’m happy we’ve done this as it revealed issues I’d not considered. 1st , having the traffic stations QSY to 2200wf revealed that fldigi will shift cursor focus to 2200 when the traffic stations transmit mode ID and your fldigi is configured to, ‘Search passband’. Best to leave this feature disabled unless you’re looking for a QSO w/o a panadapter. The close proximity to 1500 also hindered stations already having difficulty with high background noise.
2nd , I’d not thought out all the digital exchanges between stations while leaving and re-entering the net. And, our simple ck-in routine doesn’t provide for stations to list traffic. Digital nets are relatively new and don’t have long established protocols. Generally, they follow phone and CW conventions, sometimes by combining phone phrasing and CW shorthand. Abbreviations are useful in digital comms. I certainly picked the right Ops for this demo. They probably know more than I about traffic nets.
I only ask for callsigns at ck-in; I assume you have practice traffic or will send QRU when you don’t. This makes ck-in simpler for ORCA’s practice-format. For a traffic net, NCS usually asks first for stations with traffic to list, then takes general ck-ins. Brad WA7HHE obviously knows this and listed his traffic for me after he checked in. If this was a traffic net, I would call for traffic listings first. Brad also knew that as the station holding traffic, it was his role to select the freq and call the RX station to follow him off-freq. None of this is difficult, but does take some time to absorb and perform smoothly.
Usually, the traffic stations check out & recheck in the order, TX,RX,Relay. When dispatched, the TX Op will call the RX (& maybe relay) station to the chosen freq and they will all ck-out in order with, ‘W1AW QSY 3.583, 1500’. Returning, they print their call on the wf and, when recognized report, ‘W1AW TX 1 msg, or ‘W1AW RX 1 msg’, or the relay, ‘W1AW relay recheck’. W/o VideoID, they wait for a break in net flow, send their callsign, and wait for NCS to recognize them with, ‘W1AW ?’ None of these phrases are absolutely required. Whatever you chose should be brief and concise. They’re simple net protocols that assist NCS in maintaining net order and keeping everyone aware of net operations. Busy traffic and emergency nets may have numerous stations off-freq passing traffic while net business continues. There may be a small delay between their ‘recheck’ call and my response. I need to finish whatever I’m doing before bringing them back in.
Thanks for your interest and focus. We’ll do this more often in the future and be prepared to work traffic and emergency nets with ease. We can add this (optional) exercise to the Traffic round on a regular basis. I wouldn’t want it to extend net time too much; it’s already a long net. I don’t think it will add much time when we become familiar with the process. I would appreciate your thoughts and observations.
Welcome to Rich KK6JGJ in Oakland, CA. He’d been monitoring and checked in after closing. Hat’s off to everyone for taking time to refine and practice digital traffic skills with us every week. We’ve become quite proficient in a short time. It’s a pleasure to work with you every Tuesday evening. Your participation enables Mindy W7ZAP & I to learn digital NCS skills. I hope to see you again next Tuesday.
73 Doug K7KY
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WA7HHE < K7KY GE Brad I think the off freq demo will be smoother tonight.. < K7KY
K6ETA K6ETA & GE Steve… I’ll put u guys at the top and we’ll use 2200wf again to help us all understand ‘Searches passband’.. otherwise, we’ll make a greater separtation when we send Ops off for traffic exchange… tu both.. < K7KY
K7KY < K6ETA RR < K6ETA
KE6SLS < K7KY GE Jaye.. ur videoID printed very well tu < K7KY
K7KY de WA7HHE, back in the ham shack, good print Doug
WA7HHE RR tu < K7KY
Early ORCA Check-Ins:
WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT, T – K6ETA
K6ETA Steve Petaluma,CA
KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA
W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR qru
K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS
ORCA DIGITAL NET – Taking early ck-ins < K7KY
K7KY de KA7PAT
Riverton, OR
KB6NN is on door duty tonight. So I will be in/out. Report for now is K7KY is 9 dB s/n and S9+ here in Eureka where I have searches passband turned off. Thanks again Doug.
< KB6NN
KB6NN RR Howard in&out for door duty.. tu BREAK K6QOG GE Bill ur on the log tu BREAK KA7PAT < K7KY GE Pat ur on the log in&out tu < K7KY
K7KY K7KY
de KD7CL KD7CL
Craig
0219Z
Riverton, Or
Long wire <25 watts> out at 2000
KD7CL RR Craig tu out @ 2000 < K7KY
WA7HHE Traffic for K6ETA
WA7HHE TU Brad I got a bit ahead of u and listed it as if I already knew… < K7KY
Early ORCA Check-Ins:
WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT, T – K6ETA
K6ETA Steve Petaluma,CA
KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA
K6QOG Bill Cedar City,UT
KA7PAT Pat Riverton,OR in&out
KD7CL Craig Riverton,OR QNX@2000
KB6NN Howard Eureka,CA in&out
W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR QRU
K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS
ORCA DIGITAL NET – Taking early ck-ins < K7KY
Hi ORCA Digi-Hams!
KA7FOO
KA7FOO < K7KY Ge Doug I’ve put u near the top of roster to work with Brad & Steve tu < K7KY
RR
KA7FOO
ORCA DIGITAL NET begins in a few minutes… any more early check ins? < K7KY
Early ORCA Check-Ins:
WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT, T – K6ETA
K6ETA Steve Petaluma,CA
KA7FOO Doug Reno,NV
KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA
K6QOG Bill Cedar City,UT
KA7PAT Pat Riverton,OR in&out
KD7CL Craig Riverton,OR QNX@2000
KB6NN Howard Eureka,CA in&out
W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR QRU
K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS
10/31/2017 19:29 PDT
GE & 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 (30sec)
2) Rotation list
3) Announcements
Weekly FLAMP exercise with Mindy W7ZAP
Open FLAMP before exercise begins.
FLDIGI can be configured to ‘AUTOSTART’ FLAMP.
Traffic Round: NCS calls each station in order
No practice traffic? Send ‘QRU’.
Hold keyboard dialogue for Comment Round. Questions anytime.
Comment Round: comments, reception reports, observations, questions
(keyboard or FLMSG BLANK Form as you like)
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.
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ORCA CHECK-INS COME NOW. Send CALLSIGN or print VideoID on WF
First time? CALL/NAME/QTH
Monitoring stations send: ‘CALLSIGN IN&OUT’
< K7KY
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K7KY K7KY de N7SND N7SND Cedar City, Utah checking in.
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N7SND < K7KY GE Larry tu BREAK any more? < K7KY
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Sending Pic:144×140; < K7KY
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:mg:399 ORCA DIGITAL NET 31/oct/17 Check-in/Rotation:
Check-ins: 11
Stations:
WA7HHE Brad Cedar City,UT, T – K6ETA
K6ETA Steve Petaluma,CA
KA7FOO Doug Reno,NV
KE6SLS Jaye Eureka,CA
K6QOG Bill Cedar City,UT
KA7PAT Pat Riverton,OR in&out
KD7CL Craig Riverton,OR QNX@2000
KB6NN Howard Eureka,CA in&out
N7SND Larry Cedar City,UT
W7ZAP Mindy Brookings,OR QRU
K7KY Doug Brookings,OR NCS
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ORCA ANNOUNCEMENTS 31 October 2017 Happy Halloween!
Tonight’s Optional FLAMP exercise distributes ‘ex44.txt’, an FLMSG
/FLAMP exercise using the BLANK form. Complete the exercise
instructions and send the file to NCS during TRAFFIC round using
FLAMP, or send your own practice traffic, or QRU.
In Traffic round, Brad WA7HHE, Steve K6ETA, & Doug KA7FOO will help us
explore off-frequency traffic handling. Unlike ORCA, Traffic and
Emergency nets pass traffic off the net frequency. Our demonstration will
illustrate how messages are handled on these nets. Only the stations
dispatched by NCS will leave the net frequency. The rest of us remain on
1500 and continue with net business.
NCS will send a relay if condx are poor. Stations dispatched w/o relay
will return for a relay if they cannot complete the message. Tonight, we’ll
include a relay at the outset.
Prior to Traffic round, be sure, ‘Searches passband’, is disabled in your
Configuration menu, ‘ID/RxID. Otherwise, fldigi will follow the TX/RX Ops.
They need TxID & RxID active to change modes quickly.
On all Directed nets, members join and leave the net thru NCS. We ck-in,
ck-out & recheck with NCS. NCS needs to know who is aboard & who is
not. Although this in not critical on our net, we’re learning traffic &
emergency net protocols.
Net Report posted as soon as we can…
orcadigitalnet.com/reports/
< K7KY
For tonight’s FLAMP exercise Mindy W7ZAP will begin in THOR-50×1 and fill in MFSK-32 over to Mindy… < K7KY
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ORCA DIGITAL NET DE W7ZAP
<PROG 18 F567>{CD29}FLAMP 2.2.03
<FILE 29 1D3D>{CD29}20171031221833:ex44.txt
<ID 25 F2DE>{CD29}W7ZAP Brookings, OR
<SIZE 14 5A28>{CD29}443 7 64
<FILE 29 1D3D>{CD29}20171031221833:ex44.txt
<ID 25 F2DE>{CD29}W7ZAP Brookings, OR
<SIZE 14 5A28>{CD29}443 7 64
<DATA 72 6555>{CD29:1}FLMSG/FLAMP file-manipulation exercise, OPTIONAL
In an FLMSG
<DATA 72 9CF7>{CD29:2} BLANK form, create the file ‘URCALL_ex44.b2s. Copy the followin
<DATA 72 D9C6>{CD29:3}g question to the Message: field and add your answer.
Can u sug
<DATA 72 FF5F>{CD29:4}gest a variation/addition to the weekly FLAMP exercise that
woul
<DATA 72 61FA>{CD29:5}d make it more interesting/challenging/useful?
In TRAFFIC round
<DATA 72 3C03>{CD29:6}, send the new file to NCS using FLAMP, or send your
own practic
<DATA 67 F5E2>{CD29:7}e msg or QRU. On the FLAMP TX tab, change ‘QST’ to ‘NCS’.
<CNTL 10 0C3B>{CD29:EOF}
<CNTL 10 AC37>{CD29:EOT}
DE W7ZAP K
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 …
WA7HHE
DE WA7HHE
File : ex44.txt
<MISSING 15 B29C>{CD29}CONFIRMED
DE WA7HHE K
K6ETA
K7KY < K6ETA
FLAmp locked up but I think I only missed the prologue
< K6ETA
KA7FOO
DE KA7FOO
File : ex44.txt
<MISSING 15 B29C>{CD29}CONFIRMED
DE KA7FOO K
KA7FOO
KE6SLS
strong qsb here
nothing for flamp to report :(
de ke6sls
K6QOG
DE k6qog
File : ex44.txt
<MISSING 15 B29C>{CD29}CONFIRMED
DE k6qog K
KD7CL
DE KD7CL
File : ex44.txt
<MISSING 15 B29C>{CD29}CONFIRMED
DE KD7CL K
N7SND
N7SND
File : ex44.txt
<MISSING 15 B29C>{CD29}CONFIRMED
DE N7SND K
K7KY
<STX>
DE K7KY
File : ex44.txt
<MISSING 15 B29C>{CD29}CONFIRMED
DE K7KY K
ORCA DIGITAL NET DE W7ZAP
<PROG 18 F567>{CD29}FLAMP 2.2.03
<FILE 29 1D3D>{CD29}20171031221833:ex44.txt
<ID 25 F2DE>{CD29}W7ZAP Brookings, OR
<SIZE 14 5A28>{CD29}443 7 64
<FILE 29 1D3D>{CD29}20171031221833:ex44.txt
<ID 25 F2DE>{CD29}W7ZAP Brookings, OR
<SIZE 14 5A28>{CD29}443 7 64
<DATA 72 6555>{CD29:1}FLMSG/FLAMP file-manipulation exercise, OPTIONAL
In an FLMSG
<DATA 72 9CF7>{CD29:2} BLANK form, create the file ‘URCALL_ex44.b2s. Copy the followin
<DATA 72 D9C6>{CD29:3}g question to the Message: field and add your answer.
Can u sug
<DATA 72 FF5F>{CD29:4}gest a variation/addition to the weekly FLAMP exercise that
woul
<DATA 72 61FA>{CD29:5}d make it more interesting/challenging/useful?
In TRAFFIC round
<DATA 72 3C03>{CD29:6}, send the new file to NCS using FLAMP, or send your
own practic
<DATA 67 F5E2>{CD29:7}e msg or QRU. On the FLAMP TX tab, change ‘QST’ to ‘NCS’.
<CNTL 10 0C3B>{CD29:EOF}
<CNTL 10 AC37>{CD29:EOT}
DE W7ZAP K
K6ETA
DE K6ETA
File : ex44.txt
<MISSING 15 B29C>{CD29}CONFIRMED
DE K6ETA K
KE6SLS
okay, I must reboot. flamp not working, fldigi lagging. sri.
de ke6sls k
KE6SLS < W7ZAP No worries Jaye BREAK K7KY < W7ZAP Back to you Doug… < W7ZAP
W7ZAP < K7KW7ZAP < K7KY TU Mindy the exercise went well in THOR 50×1 maybe we’ll be able to use faster modes as winter progresses.. BREAK
ORCA DIGITAL NET – Late/Visitor Check-in? < K7KY
OK on to the Traffic round and our 2nd try @ passing traffic off-freq. tonight we’ll do the same and dispatch two stations off freq to pass traffic and a third station to accompany them in case they need a relay… tonight, they’ll likely do OK we’ll send these three Ops off to 2200wf tonight.. normally, I wouild send them further off the net freq.. BREAK
WA7HHE Brad pse take Steve K6ETA off to 2200wf and pass ur traffic.. Doug KA7FOO pse go with them in case they need a relay. All 3 Ops pse ack this dispatch with something like QSY callsign in the oreder of the net when returning, pse print ur call on either siedd of 1500 and I’ll bring u back with Callsign? OK any questions b4 u go? if no then go (-: < K7KY
K6ETA/KA7FOO de WA7HHE,QSY to wf 2200
K7KY < K6ETA QSY < K6ETA
Will do.
KA7FOO
All ORCA OK these guys are off to pass traffic on 2200wf and we continue with the Traffic round with Jaye KE6SLS < K7KY
ORCA de ke6sls, gie me just a tic pls, I am going to send the trf from
two weeks ago, when I lost ORCA, ur sig is much better now at 8pm!
just a tick pls
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:mg:101 Have u participated in an actual emergency as an Amateur Radio Op ?
Yes, several times.
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KE6SLS TU Jaye…. BREAK next is Bill K6QOG < K7KY
QST DE k6qog
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K6QOG < K7KY TU Bill and nice work turning the exercise around so quickly.. BREAK next is Larry N7SND < K7KY
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N7SND < K7KY TU Larry we can’t get this message too often… BREAK KA7FOO? < K7KY
WA7HHE, msg passed to K6ETA
WA7HHE RR Brad tu BREAK K6ETA ? < K7KY
WA7HHE < K6ETA Message rxed < K6ETA
K6ETA TU Steve… BREAK KA7FOO ? < K7KY
No relay needed.
KA7FOO
KA7FOO RR Doug tu BREAK thanks to all three Ops for the demo and we’ll ask them about the exercise in comments… if we did this every net as in an emergency or regular traffic net we would get very used to it and it would go smoothly.. OK back to the Traffic round and we’ll come back to the off0-freq stations in case they hv traffic for the general net.. now, OHj! we’re at the bottom of the roster so we can see if Brad had also a msg for the net? Brad WA7HHE < K7KY
Probably not.. on to Steve K6ETA < K7KY
K7KY < K6ETA
Good exercise. Doug and Brad had trouble hearing each other but all stas copied the very first FLAmp tx.
< K6ETA
K6ETA < K7KY RR Steve good to hear…. we’ll do this more often and get it down smoothly for the first efforts, I think we’re doing OK.. BREAK Doug KA7FOO any traffic tonight? < K7KY
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DE KA7FOO K
KA7FOO < K7KY I must say, Doug u surprised me on the exercise homework u must be running two computers nice work BREAK are there any late checkins or visitors? < K7KY
Now we begin the Comment round with Brad WA7HHE < K7KY
de WA7HHE, enjoyed the exercise tonight, good practice for using the software hope everyone will want to give it a try. Good idea with having a relay station available even if you are unable to copy the relay station.
de WA7HHE
WA7HHE < K7KY RR Brad…. as we go along with this exercise I’l get better at selecting the relay and it will always be conditional on who’s here and condx… tonight, I picked three Ops who use VideoID as I wanted the net to see how easily u can reenter the net w/o having to catch NCS on 1500. As long as I’m not TXing, I can see VideoIDs on the WF.. OK BREAK over to Steve K6ET
A < K7KY
K7KY < K6ETA QRU
< K6ETA
K6ETA < K7KY FB Steve & tnx for the demo BREAK over to Doug KA7FOO < K7KY
… Comments for KA7FOO …
ORCA Logo pic was absolutely perfect!!!
The Thor 50×1 went well.
Good reception in the Reno area.
The Off Freq test worked like it is supposed to!
Nice. Good band conditions makes a difference.
Interesting that Brad could not hear me, yet I
had a good signal from him!
Doug #1, running a old Acer laptop, 2 GHz, 4GRAM,
driving two monitors.
Watching the spider on the security cam. Reminds
me of “Land of the Giants”! Anybody else that old?
Doug #2
KA7FOO
KA7FOO < K7KY Tnx, Doug I may not be as old as I think… I don’t know abt the spider yet.. BREAK next for comments is Jaye KE6SLS < K7KY
ars ke6sls running 40 watts tonight to a low, short, inverted dipole in Eureka! California.
k7ky p0, s7 4db, strong qsb at 7:30PDT, @ 7:50PDT s9 12db,
w7zap, s6/s7 -4db, strong qsb, 0% flamp thor, flamp notty, spanked, better behave or money back!
N7SND s5 -12db, about 50% cp trf rnd,
k6qog s6, -4db, about 80% flamp,
WA7HHE s7, 3db, 100% kb
k6eta s7, 6db, 100kb
KA7FOO s5, -10db, 50% kb!, about 60% flamp
fldigi didn’t copy the thor ex. I restarted it, but it only copied part of the mfsk, then wouldn’t report because the report button buried under other windows. BUG! Need to turn off that box! buggger.
I think it’s time for a new hard drive on my laptop. Going to change it up to a
solid state drive and that should get me back into good battle ops!
very strong qsb. unable to make the Mendo net either. MUF on the edge tonight.
Great work on the test tonight with off net ops! I used my IF shift and took them down to no
wf and kept NCS 100% that is GREAT! TU for this test Doug!
I think better separation is in order. Perhaps NCS could tune at 1k on wf, sending ops up to 2.5k on wf for traffic. It was difficult
copy at times as qsb went up/down.
Had nx6dx with me last night for our emergency nets. Enjoyed his company and fed him some of my
killer chili .. happy to report John is still with us! :)
I would like to see another off freq demo in the near future. this is good learning experience Doug.
I have my green house built, and lst weekend, got the roof done over dry shed & green house! yeah. Now to do the wood heater install this weekend! Looking forward to feeling my toes come winter! :)
BTW, ORCA is a GREAT way to avoid all those needy people asking for CANDY! Happy Halloween!
TU all, 73
de Jaye, ke6sls
KE6SLS < K7KY Well, that’s a screen full Jaye… I will be sending traffic stns further off -freq in the future I wanted the net to see the traffic trail from 1500 I didn’t think it would bother anyone, but I see with lots of noise aready, it didn’t help u at all.. OK Next is Bill K6QOG < K7KY
de K6QOG since I haven’t been on for a while this has been a great exercise. I forget so much when I am not on often. Thanks Doug.
de K6QOG k
K6QOG < K7KY RR Bill I agree with u about practice… we can always remember how to do most things, but when we practice regularly, we usually can do a much better job and we can respond to unusual circumstances much better with frequent practice… BREAK we;’re already down to Larry N7SND < K7KY
K7KY de N7SND Had a great time. The band was not good but great.
The off freq excercise seemed very successful. Just one more way to communicate.
I was able to copy everybody. Seee u all next week. 73s.
N7SND < K7KY sorry abt that Larry.. I’m getting ahead of myself just as bad as falling behind… I was concerned that the way we run this net might lead people to expect other digital nets to be similar and they not. Most net pass traffic off the net freq… BREAK next for Comments is Mindy W7ZAP < K7KY
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W7ZAP copied the following stations:
WA7HHE 100% copy KBD, VidID, (S9+)
K6ETA 100% copy KBD, VidID (S9 +15)
KA7FOO 100% copy KBD, FLAMP, VidID (S8+) s/n=11dB
KE6SLS 100% copy KBD, VidID,FLMSG (S9 +10) s/n=18dB
K6QOG 100% copy KBD, FLAMP, (S9+) s/n=13dB
KA7PAT 100% copy KBD (S8)@ 2000wf
KD7CL 100% copy KBD (S9+) s/n=11dB
KB6NN 100% copy KBD (S9) s/n=10dB
N7SND 100% copy KBD, FLMSG (S9) s/n=7dB
K7KY 100% copy KBD, FLMSG, image
Looking at propagation forecasts prior to net… haven’t seen them look so good for a long time. Great copy on all tonight. Really enjoyed the traffic exercise tonight… added a bit of complexity! Great to see all on the WF tonight :-) Always enjoy the traffic/comments.
73,
Mindy W7ZAP
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W7ZAP < K7KY TU Mindy, nice report.. BREAK are there any more comments or questions? < K7KY
Last chance to check in members or visitors come now < K7KY
This concludes the ORCA DIGITAL NET
for: 10/31/2017 20:34 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’
73 Doug K7KY
DE KK6JGJ / Rich / Oakland, CA
KK6JGJ < K7KY GE Rich… we just close the net were u able to cpy us for awhile? < K7KY
KK6JGJ < K7KY Rich how copy me @ 35w? < K7KY
No I just got the last bit of confirmations I was on the wrong Op Mode; switched over when you were finished.
KK6JGJ < K7KY RR Rich… copied most… u can learn more about the ORCA net @ http://orcadigitalnet.com there’s a quick start guide there and u will see some abt the net.. we begin @ 1930p each Tues evening.. in MFSK-32 @ 1500 wf btu < K7KY
KK6JGJ < K7KY If u have an interest in practicing digital traffic handling, we look forward to working with you… u can check ‘in&out’ for a few weeks to learn the routines anyway, feel welcome to work with us… 73 for now Doug K7KY sk
very good thank you; have some issues still working out on new radio, Ill try to join your net in the future to work through those.
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KK6JGJ < K7KY FB Rich… the digital gremlins get into every station now & then… when Its all working correctly it’s magic when it’s not it’s terrible (-: cu next time.. 73 < K7KY
