That is one thing I was taught early on in my career. Before you go nuts troubleshooting an electronic problem in any device check the power source (cord). Thanks, Rowland

My W7PFB-10 VHF Winlink RMS station has been down for some unknown (but short) time. Noticed it this morning because the radio was cycling on and off and on and off because the backup battery was

OK................OK...............OK...........thanks Thanks, Rowland

I’ll backup Your backup’s backup :-) -- ************************* Howard E. Mahran WA1HEM *************************

I may be at a meeting this Thursday (my NC night) so hopefully someone will be able to fill in for me. Thanks, Rowland

Hello everyone. It was decided by the City of Carnation to cancel the annual Tolt Dam evacuation drill due to concerns with COVID and school buildings being unavailable. There will be an online CDCCC

Hello everyone. Please see the e-mail from Kathy. A former member of SNOVARC and CDCCC passed away. Gary served the Valley for a number of years. Please keep his family in your prayers. Tom, WA7TBP

Lou, Very cool. Well done. Going to do some more playing with this. 73, Dick AA7Z

This is cool, Lou! Thanks for sharing and now I have another "thing" on my list to do/get :-) 73, Howard -- ************************* Howard E. Mahran WA1HEM *************************

Got a KiwiSDR and put it up if anyone would like to play with it. http://rst111.ddns.net:8073/ For anyone who doesn't know what this is, it's an SDR receiver (0-30Mhz) that people can listen to and

I, too, woukd like to learn! Thanks! Lou Sent from ProtonMail mobile

As soon as I return from leave I will add it to the list.

Jackson – sign me up! H From:snovarc@snovarc.groups.io <snovarc@snovarc.groups.io> on behalf of Jackson Beard <macleanofduart@...> Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 3:27 PM To:

If there's interest, I have been teaching a class on our system at the FD.

Lou - totally agree. Setting it up manually was slow but a lightbulb finally went off as to how the scanner is set up and I learned the differences between Sytem, Departments, Sites and channels and

"Call me crazy. But I am manually programming the scanner as an exercise to better understand the pieces needed when building favorites even though I could copy from the database I didn’t get a full

Thanks Lou and Jackson for clarifying. Your input was exactly what I was looking for. Call me crazy. But I am manually programming the scanner as an exercise to better understand the pieces needed

Oh sorry if what I said led to confusion for anyone - thanks for clarifying, Jackson! To be 100% clear (er, I hope), selecting King County/Valley Com Simulcast selects the trunking frequencies that

Lou is correct that the site that serves our area is Ring Hill. However, in site trunking the simulcast goes away.

Hi Howard, I think you're taking the long way of doing it. The Sentinel database has all that info in there. Look at norcompic1.jpg (attached) Open sentinel and make a favorites list. Then click