Author Archives: Timothy Smith

Thanks For Your Public Service,

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Timothy Smith

I Just found this in the latest club applications and wanted to share it with you.  You know the club is very involved with the Office Of Emergency Management here at Argonne and this is an example of just such … Read More »

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Repeater Back to Full Power and Echolink Back Online,

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Timothy Smith

All, The past week and a half have been hectic with the repeater being down and the move into the new site.  We got the repeater on line last Thursday evening but had no internet or telephone service so no … Read More »

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The Repeater is Back On The Air,

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Timothy Smith

Thursday evening we  took the repaired repeater to it’s new home in the Lab’s radio room where we were given an entire rack to use for the repeater.  The day before several of us moved the cans and echolink computer … Read More »

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Very Sick Repeater,

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Timothy Smith

On Friday evening, Chuck Doose – KB9UMF, Torben Lauritsen – KF9A, Bob McComb – N9MBR and myself met up at the repeater site to try and figure out what the problem was with the repeater.  After doing a few tests and … Read More »

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Sick W9ANL Repeater,

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Timothy Smith

This Morning Bob McComb – N9MBR and I went up to the repeater site to investigate the reason that the repeater is ‘IDing’ after every transmission and why it’s been dropping out in mid transmission. We found that every time … Read More »

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Cleanup at Repeater Site,

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Timothy Smith

This morning Rich Vitt – N9KKF and I went up to the repeater site to start cleaning our area up.  There is a cleanup going on and they are throwing out anything that seems to be abandoned and that pretty … Read More »

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Upcoming License Exam Session At Evanston Amateru Radio Community Meeting,

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Timothy Smith

The Evanston Amateur Radio Community will be meeting and holding a license exam session on February 25, 2013 at the Fire Department Training Room, 909 Lake Street in Evanston, Illinois. 6:45 PM                License Exams (contact [email protected] to register). 7:30 PM               … Read More »

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Echolink Found Off Line,

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Timothy Smith

Several weeks ago now when visiting the repeater site I noticed the computer for Echolink was waiting for a password to be entered. I had initially removed this feature so that if the power goes off and comes back on … Read More »

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Posted on January 18, 2013 by Timothy Smith

Well, Happy New Year All, It’s been a while since I had the time to sit and bring things up to date.  Didn’t help being off sick the past week.  But now it’s back to business. The first order of … Read More »

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Time for the Other Election, for AARC Officers,

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Timothy Smith

Folks,        It’s that time again for you to nominate people to fill the AARC officer positions.  Rich Vitt and Torben Lauritsen have done a great job this year serving as VP and Secretary / Treasurer, and I … Read More »

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