Ham Radio

Just a tad bit of QRM here. I suspect it's the battery charger I'm using as a temporary power supply. Normally I have a bunch of filters between the radio and the power system too. That's also missing. Once it's reinstalled the problem should go away. I hope. Lest it's something harder to fix...

Note: Frequency is subject to change. Although it's been quite a while without issue so it's probably fine here. 

Frequency: 145.785 (Simplex)
C4FM ID: 00 (required for C4FM/Wires-X)
Location: Sterling, Va, USA
Grid Square: FM19ha
Station Call: KG4TIH
WIRES-X Node: KG4TIH-ND3 (71429)
Default Room: VA-Sterling (28558)
Transmit Power: 40w
Coordination: N/A

After a bit of moving hardware around my 449.375 Wires-X repeater is back online. 

Frequency: 449.375-
Tone: 110.9hz (required for analog)
C4FM ID: 00 (required for C4FM/Wires-X)
Location: Sterling, Va, USA
Grid Square: FM19ha
Station Call: KG4TIH
WIRES-X Node: KG4TIH-ND (18558)
Default Room: VIRGINIA (21625)
Transmit Power: 50w
Coordination: TMARC

The back of my 449.370- repeater! Details on the repeater are here. 

I've turned off the VA-Sterling room for now as I've got my node defaulting to the Virginia room with a few other nodes in the state. 

The Sterling, VA, USA repeater and WIRES-X node is now up and operational. 

It is a full duplex WIRES-X node, C4FM Repeater, and FM Repeater in FM19ha run by KG4TIH.

This Yaesu DR-2X repeater on 70cm is set for analog and C4FM mode. The node is set to auto join the VA-Sterling (28558) room after an inactivity period of 10 minutes. When in this room or others all C4FM traffic will be sent to the Wires-X room and all signals received via the room will be transmitted via C4FM. The Wires-X features on some Yaesu radios will allow the user to control what room is connected. 

Sterling, Va now has a Wires-X node (100% digital with full control) on 439.800MHz. 

Note: If/when coordinated frequencies come in and the associated repeater is up, the frequencies will change. 

On Tuesday 2019-10-29 at 11:01 AM US/East a team of amateur radio operations, myself included, made contact with the International Space Station. Thirteen students from Farmwell Station Middle School (FSMS), part of Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), were able to ask questions of Dr. Drew Morgan. This was thanks to the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARRIS) program and Loudoun Amateur Radio Group (LARG).