SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “The NASA Analog Missions: Antarctica” and “Tour of the Constellation Camelopardalis”
Net Control: Billye KF5PDS
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“UFO: Identified”
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
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Turkey Trot went super-smoothly, but there’s still one more big public service event coming up in our area: the 2018 Dallas Marathon. If you enjoyed the Turkey Trot, please head over and sign up!
Our December 4th meeting will be our annual Pizza Party. Bring your favorite pizza or side dish and share it as we celebrate a year’s worth of accomplishments. If you have any fun, short movies to watch, bring those, too. And don’t forget, our Winter Dinner is just around the corner on December 11th.
We’ve got one big contest going on: the CQ WW CW contest.
The Cowtown Hamfest and ARRL North Texas Section Convention, the original HAMFEST in the Fort Worth Metroplex is scheduled January 18-19 2019.
If you’d like to listen to one of our nets without using Echolink, or if you’d like to introduce non-ham friends to the 88 machine, I’ve been working on a resource that can help: a Broadcastify feed. After experimenting for several evenings with a RTL-SDR dongle, I’ve decided that I can get better audio quality by wiring an old HT up to a computer…so that’s what I’ve done.
Be aware that there is 30-40 seconds of latency between the repeater and the feed, so don’t try using this for checking in to SKYNET. Broadcastify also claims to provide archives of recorded audio, but I haven’t tested that feature yet.
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/29333
Let me know if you need to report a problem: just email my callsign, nt5tm, at w5fc.org.
SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Cepheid Variables” and “Tour of the Constellation Auriga”
Net Control: Brenda WB5OZL
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“Firefly: The Train Job” (2002 – S01E02)
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
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Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skynet
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/306498286059167/
Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Discussion topic of the evening.
Mike KG5P
Cepheid Variables
Turkey Trot is less than a week away. Sign up on-line or get in touch with Randy, KE5JIT. We need your participation, and you’ll have a great time. You could make this your first public service event, and then graduate right away to working at the “big one,” the Dallas Marathon.
Yep, that’s right: the Dallas Marathon is coming up soon, too. Please sign up for that event; there are lots of great jobs still open. The Marathon was the first public service event I participated in. It might not sound like an easy way to get started, but there are tons of other amateur radio volunteers around to help you out and guide you—it’ll be easier than you think.
And don’t forget: there’s a Chili Cook-Off tomorrow afternoon!
There’s one contest going on right now, and it’s a big one: The ARRL SSB November Sweepstakes.
On Nov 17, 2018 upgrades have been completed on the W5FC 442.425 Fusion repeater. The older DR-1X was upgraded and replaced with a new Yaesu DR-2X. Special thanks to K5BP for his hard work and effort on “tweeking” the controller codes to work with the new hardware. The repeater is also Wires-X attached – operators can talk around the world.
Some good news and bad – The Bad: AS of Nov 11, 2018 the w5fc DARC 442.425 Yaesu System Fusion Repeater will be off the air for a few days. The Good: when the repeater and controller come back on the air it will be the new Yaesu DR2X and have Wires-X connectivity (replacing the older DR1X). Stay tuned for more updates as they occur. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Thanks to the generous donation from the Irving Amateur Radio (IARC) for $1000.00. Along with some other private donations. The DARC AREDN Mesh network has been upgraded and expanded.
SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “The Indian Space Program” and “Tour of the Constellation Cetus, the Whale”
Net Control: Tony NT5TM
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“The Prisoner: The Chimes of Big Ben”
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
Youtube.com Search “DARC Skynet”
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Twitch.tv Search “KE5ICX”
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