It is that time of year again, yes, the Richland County fair was here again (September 3rd– 7th ). That meant that the Pine Valley Repeater Amateur Radio Club ARES/RACES was inattendance again with our coms trailer and equipment. Many club members were out to talk,demonstrate, play radio, and of course eat good fair food.…
Our club, W9PVR, recently voted to install a weather station at the D-Star site, giving us the ability to display live weather data for members and visitors. While Ambient Weather provides built-in HTML widgets for web display, I wanted to take things a step further: sending that data directly to APRS.fi. To make this possible,…
This month’s meeting was an on-air meeting on the club’s 146.910 two-meter repeater, as our normal meeting site host was going to be on vacation. We had a few brief announcements then did an on-air exercise.The exercise consisted of simulating severe thunderstorms moving into our area. We had participants givespotter reports. Then opened 3 storm…
We’ve been working behind the scenes to improve the audio quality on the W9PVR AllStarLink/EchoLink node. Thanks to feedback from our operators and some helpful testing, we’ve made a few adjustments on the node side to clean up the audio and provide a clearer experience for everyone connecting. But remember—audio quality is a two-way street!…