I would be interested. Thanks Robin! Sent from ProtonMail mobile

On Tuesday evening K1IR from Massachusetts gave a shocking, well-researched, and very riveting presentation on amateur tower climbing accidents and what can be learned from them, how to prevent, etc.

I think 2 can be connected at one time.

How many people can sign into echolink for the cougar repeater? Thanks, Rowland

Kathy is supposed to do the netcontrol this Thursday but we will be in Eastern Washington. It might be interesting for her to try and do it using echolink from There. It will be a little slower to

Success! Thank you Ralph for the peer-to-peer test. We had no problem communicating peer-to-peer on 2 meters.... but... we could not connect on 70cm... just too much dirt and vegetation... so lesson

Yes! We should try on 2 meters first. We can talk by phone first. Will email you my phone number.

Ralph, Im wondering if you can try Peer to Peer Vara FM with me. Im not sure Im getting to Paul's Vara FM RMS and would like to verify my setup before I schlep everything to carnation. I have had

Yep that works fine -p

Paul Just wanted to let you know that I used the narrow mode with VARA Fm. My sound card is configured as narrow. Did the emails come through ok? Ralph

The FM version of VARA in wide mode uses the entire 6kHz of bandwidth that you get when you bypass the audio filtering and inject the signal directly into the FM modulator in a VHF/UHF radio.

I was reading some threads on groups.io about Vara fm on 10meters and ran across this statement that got me wondering if there is a difference between Vara HF and FM .... "The badge FM did cause

I hope you are right Paul- it’s really hard to debug what’s wrong,if anything at all, if my signal is simply not reaching you. When I get time I'll drive out to Carnation and try it from there to

I suspect the problem Howard is having now is that the RMS station is on an antenna that is lower than the one I heard his signals on today. -p W7PFB 73, Don’t forget to smile and have fun!

I got the shift worked out too but still can’t connect- I’m thinking it’s the Yaesu setup. More head banging for me -- ************************* Howard E. Mahran WA1HEM (425) 864 -

I can’t claim credit. Howard was having problems and pointed out that his radio was automatically applying a shift. Which got me thinking, maybe that was Ralph’s problem. -p W7PFB 73, Don’t

ok, I'll fess up. Paul solved my problem of not transmitting on the 70cm band. My radio had the positive shift "+" enabled. Therefore I was not transmitting on 440.850. It was really transmitting

I _think_ I sent something? *I don't know what I'm doing other than procrastinating.

Great, thanks. Now we just need to figure out why 70cm is not working for you. -p W7PFB 73, Don’t forget to smile and have fun!

Ralph here. I just connected with Paul via VARA FM on pier to pier at frequency 145.640. I'm having trouble with my sound card working on 2m but not at 70cm. I don't have a clue as to why it is not