Monthly Archives: August 2012

Work Starts on New Antenna Location

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Timothy Smith

Last Thursday at lunch several of us met on the roof of the repeater site to take down the mast and antenna that were given to us by the Lab ( Derek Steinkamp ).  Bob McComb is looking into making … Read More »

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Latest Echolink Updates

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Timothy Smith

Last week saw an number of updates to our Echolink setup.  First we received VPN access for our computer at the repeater site.  In addition, we setup remote access to that computer and currently only Rich Vitt and myself have … Read More »

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Upcoming EOC Activity

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Timothy Smith

As you may know, September 15th is the latest open house at Argonne and it will again be allowing the general public to enter Argonne.  The EOC will be activated to cover all possibilities of having to accommodate the predicted … Read More »

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New Interest in APRS

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Timothy Smith

After talking to a few members about how APRS used to be used for tracking weather spotters, I decided to check the waters to see if anyone else was still active in APRS and if any others would like to … Read More »

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Work At Repeater Site in Preparation for Echolink

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Timothy Smith

On 3 April, 2012 arrangements were made to activate the network connection at the repeater site.  This included submitting a request to open the 3 ports required for Echolink to function correctly.  This also included identifying the special firewall requirements … Read More »

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Ready for Public

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Timothy Smith

On 28 Mar, 2012 the board met and agreed to let the public know that Echolink was on line and available.  Over the previous month, many changes and tests were performed in an attempt to assure stable operation before telling … Read More »

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Welcome Echolink

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Timothy Smith

Echolink, the RF interface to VOIP on the network, has been up and running ( or at least stumbling ) since 29 Feb, 2012.  At that time it was located in my lab, 435 E 020 undergoing Bata testing you … Read More »

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Welcome To The Argonne Amateur Radio Club’s New Webpage.

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Timothy Smith
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