Saturday, January 28, 2017

NTS Message Number

All radiograms have a preamble, consisting of the following parts:

Number
Precedent
HX - Handling Instructions
Station Origin
Check
Place of Origin
Time Filed
Month / Day

The message number is assigned by the station originating the message.  This number is permanently assigned to the message through to the point of delivery.   Understand that with a Service Message, the letters SVC can be placed in front o fthe message number.  However, this appears to not be used frequenlty these days.

Numbers are assigned by the operator of the station originating the message at their discretion.

Monday, January 23, 2017

First Nor' Easter for 2017

Winter Storm in progress
Moderate frozen precipitation
33 degrees, 0.4 in frozen precipitation
Report to Hartford Tolland Co SkyWarn


WESCON Regional NTS Net Check-in List as Recorded by N1DN

K1HEJ NCS LARRY NEW BRITAIN
K1XFC PHIL SOUTH WINDSOR
KT1NG TAD BROOKLYN
KD1FFT SCOTT CORRAINE
K1AH VINCE ENFIELD
N1KHW
N1DN PHIL WEST HARTFORD
N1KQG HERB CHICOPEE
KB1VVB THOMAS TORRINGTON
K1MTD MARY ANDOVER
KB1NAL LEE NORWICH 

Monday, January 16, 2017

CT ARES Region 3 Net

CT ARES Region 3 Net - check in list as recorded by N1DN

AB1GL           George (NCS)   Manchester

AB1LZ            Bill                   Wheatoque
W1RWP          Bob                   Newington
NC1J               Dan                   Wheatogue
K1XFC            Phil                   South Windsor
K1PAI             Roger                Wethersfield
KB1QQI         Paul                   New Britian
W1FTE           Skip                   Granby
N1DN             Phil                    West Hartford
K1AUG          Mark                  Burlington
K1HEJ            Larry                  New Britian

KB1AEV        Dana                  Enfield
KC1ERO        Jason                  Southington
K1AH             Vince                  Enfield
K9JMK           John                    South Windsor


Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Retro Journey to Packet Radio

I was a big user of computer BBS in the late 1980s (NOMUG - New Orleans Mac User Group).  The command line prompt and simple format of packet radio is quite appealing.  I'm working to get my Kenwood TM-D710 to connect with some local packet stations:

Kenwood Radio Modem
AX.25 Level 2 Version 2.0
Release 09/Mar/11 3Chip ver 1.02
Checksum $1859

MYCALL   N1DN
cmd:C W1EDH

cmd:*** CONNECTED to W1EDH
PC/FlexNet V3.3g - Welcome to the W1EDH FlexNet-Digi. This node is located at
Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut [FN31sr]. This version of pc/FlexNet
and all related services are hosted under the Linux operation system and is
part of the EastNet Packet Network. http://www.eastnetpacket.org
Basic commands are:
<A>rea destinations file        <C>onnect <desti>
<D>estinations list             <H>elp (more detailed command list)
<L>inks list                    <M>ailBox (BBSEDH:W1EDH-4)
<Q>uit this node                <T>alk <callsign>

=>MH (Log of Stations Recently Heard - PR)

      4s P0  N1DN           10s P3  W1EDH-13       16s P2  K1YON-2
     24s P3  W1EDH-1     2m,33s P3  W1EDH-14    2m,40s P3  W1EDH-4
  9m,12s P0  W1VCM      17m, 5s P0  K1HEJ      30m,55s P0  BROCK
 40m,30s P0  K1IKE-3    48m,19s P2  K1YON-4     1h,39m P0  W1MV-7
  1h,48m P0  K1HEJ-14    1h,50m P0  K1HEJ-15    2h,30m P0  KA1YZC
  2h,37m P0  WA1ARC      2h,45m P0  WA1ARC-7    3h,46m P0  N1YKH
  7h,11m P0  K1HEJ-7     7h,12m P2  K1YON-5     7h,41m P0  NOCALL
 10h,32m P0  WM1P-15    12h, 4m P0  KB1NAL-14  12h, 5m P0  KB1NAL-15
 17h,58m P0  K1HEJ-1    19h,24m P0  FALM1      23h,39m P0  KB1NAL
  1d, 8h P0  WM1P-14     1d, 9h P0  KC1CIC      1d, 9h P0  KC1CIC-15

=>D (nodes linked to W1EDH and time it takes to make the round trip in milliseconds PR)

K1YON   1-1    34   K1YON   2-14   28   K2DLL   0-6   346   K2JFK   0-10  207
K2PUT   0-4   327   KA2AON  0-10  156   KB2FAF  0-0    51   KB2FAF 10-10   91
KB2FAF 12-12   91   KB2VZS  0-7    45   KB2VZS  8-8    51   KB2VZS 12-12   51
KC2FTD  1-1   471   KD2DOE  0-7   405   N1URO   1-14   42   N2KGC   1-14   43
N2NOV   4-4    49   N2PKB   0-15  420   NC2C    2-14  182   NJ2AR   0-4   365
W2GSA   2-4   271   W2LI    2-4   149   W2QYT   0-4    57   W2QYT   5-5    55
W2ZQ    0-4  1335   WA2EMO  0-5    66   WA2IMS  0-4  2080   WA2SNA  0-4   433
WB2FTX  0-0   585   WB2FTX  2-4   510   WB2ONA  1-1    48   WB2ONA  2-14   45
WB2SNN  0-14   59   WB2ZII  9-14  389
=>Q

73! *** DISCONNECTED
cmd:KWXIMON  was 0