Anderson
Repeater Club, Inc.
January, 2010
Our January meeting will be on Tuesday, January 5, at 7PM in the EOC Training Room. Please
plan to attend. Our primary item of business will be to elect Officers for 2010. Come out to join
in that fun! Also if you received any new communications “toys” for Christmas be sure to bring
them along for show-and-tell.
The last couple of months of 2009 were pretty uneventful for the repeaters and the Club. The
activity hasn’t been too great, other than a few visitors passing thru the area. Our Sunday
evening Tone Alert Test has been well attended, but we don’t hear much activity on the
repeaters otherwise. Take the time to check in and ID at every opportunity so that we can keep
the level of monitoring up. Phil, WB9URL, tends to be our key representative on the repeater
now. Thanks, Phil, for your continued dedication.
Mark your calendar for Tuesday, March 16 for the 2010 Stormnet Training class. The location is
to be determined, but it should start around 7PM. More information upcoming.
Our Emergency Management Communications activities were pretty busy the last two months
with the Shot Clinics at Hoosier Park, Alexandria, Elwood, Frankton and the WigWom. The
Run-The-Mounds also went smoothly this year. We utilized .52 simplex at each event to remind
ourselves that it is still possible and in fact effective to communicate directly between stations.
Repeaters tend to spoil us so it’s refreshing to see how well we can communicate without a
station “on high”.
The IRLP link on the .09 repeater is still being utilized frequently. Take advantage of this really
good site. Remember this too:
Just a Reminder that this coming Thursday is New Years Eve which means it is time
again for the annual New Years Eve QSO party on the IRLP Crossroads Reflector 9200.
The party gets under way at 10:30 UTC Thursday morning (yes 5:30 AM eastern, 4:30
central <yawn>) to welcome the first IRLP stations in New Zealand in to 2010 at 1100
UTC. The party continues for 24 hours until after the last stations in Hawaii make it in at
10:00 UTC Friday.
The party will be at its busiest Thursday evening when well over 100 repeaters from all
over the world are expected. Likely supporting several thousand individual Hams.
Every transmission you hear will be from someone using a RADIO. What a concept! :)
IRLP - Keeping the RADIO in Amateur Radio.
K9IP Repeater 443.425 (94.8 tone) Indianapolis, DREGs and K9DC, are the primary
sponsors of this event each year. All Indiana Hams are encouraged connect to an IRLP
repeater in your area and join in the fun. A list of Indiana IRLP repeaters/nodes is
included below. Contact the owner/admin of these systems and encourage (ask) them to
participate.
If you want to just listen in, use the URL
http://live.irlp.net:8000/
in your favorite audio
client.
-Dave K9DC
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