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ARRL Michigan Section Digital Radio Group (DRG)
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Agenda items for the next DRG meeting
Greetings,
The following items have been submitted for consideration to be on the agenda of the next DRG
meeting to be held on April 5th, 2008 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. If you have items or issues you
would like discussed at this meeting, please email them to the DRG mailing list or directly
to me. If you would like to discuss them over the phone, feel free to call me at
(734)484-5105 anytime between Noon and 6am (yeah, wierd hours).
Thank You,
--- Jay Nugent WB8TKL jjn@nuge.com
DRG Chair
*** Meeting Announcement ***
for the
Michigan Section Digital Radio Group (DRG)
Date/Time: Saturday April 5th, 2008 1pm-4pm
Location: Kalamazoo County EOC
Kalamazoo County Sheriff's office
1500 Lamont Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49048
Directions:
If coming from East of I-94 exit 81, (inludes I-69):
Take I-94 West to exit 81, I-94-BR, toward DOWNTOWN KALAMAZOO
Take I-94-BR a little over 2 miles
Turn Right on Lake Street and follow the directions below...
If coming from West of I-94 exit 80 (includes US-131):
Take I-94 East to the Sprinkle Rd exit, EXIT 80
Turn Left onto Sprinkle Rd and go about 1 mile
Turn Left onto I-94-BR/AMVET Memorial PKWY about 1.5 miles
Turn Right on Lake Street
From all directions going East on Lake Street:
Turn Right on Lamont Ave (if you get to the Fairgrounds entrance, you went too far).
Take Lamont Ave to just before it ends.
If there is room, park in the South lot, otherwise park on the street.
Use the South entrance next to the south tower.
Talk-In:
If no one is there to let you in then call on 146.52 simplex.
Talk in on 147.000 (94.8pl) repeater.
Agenda Items:
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Subject to change & Not in any particular order.
Send changes/additions to: jjn@nuge.com -or- wb8tkl@arrl.net
!!! Recording Secretary (record, write up, send to list)
-- Welcome invited guests
o K8RRA Skip (Wiki)
o KC8RYF Dan (Hillsdale EC)
o N8YZQ Mike Grimm (Jackson)
o D6 leadership
o D5 leadership
Charlie Chapman, KB8SFR, DEC5 (pending appointment)
Paul Baker, KZ8OEM, Kalamazoo county Emergency Manager
Dave Schneider, AB8DS, OEM staff, RACES Liason
Art Snapper, NK8X, Kalamazoo EC/RO
Hal Thomas, KD8FFX, Kalamazoo RACES Administrative Coordinator
Todd Foote, KB8RWX, Wayland/Gun Lake area (potential Hamgate site)
Allegan county EC
Berry county EC
Branch county EC
*** Quick summary of the DRG charter
*** Quick summary of AMPRnet 'features' (as needed for invited guests)
NETWORK STATUS REPORT
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-- Frequency assignments
o D1s moved to 147.56 and 145.05
o D6 move to 147.56 (RedCross.Kent)
o D2 move to 144.93
o D2 (WASHT) to move to 147.58
3 contingencies: Detroit as a HG
HG.WAY49 pickup routes
220 link from HG.WAS to DET
-- New Hamgates & Key stations
o Hamgate.Midland (not using RCR home station)
o RedCross.Washtenaw
o EOCMNR
o Detroit
o MIGATE.N8IT (EMM/CHAR/CHEB)
- more home JNOS stations :)
-- Potential/Planned (hopeful??) new Hamgate/JNOS sites
o Hamgate.Houghton @Michigan Tech (KD8CPX)
o Hamgate.Mackinac @Moran (WA8OOH)
o Hamgate.GrandTraverse @T.C. (KB8RIV)
o Hamgate.Otsego (KC8NTE)
o Hamgate.Barry (KB8RWX)
o NWSDTX move from MSYS to JNOS ???
o Hamgate2.Midland @Jerome (WD8PBT)
** New "Working Group" called "Hamgate SysOps"
:-) Congrats to BBS.N8KUF - Uptime 415 days / 120 logins
DISTRICT STATUS REPORTS
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o What's new
o What's planned
o What support is needed
GENERAL BUSINESS
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$$$ MI-DRG.ORG is up for renewal in May ($15/yr)
-- Changes to the CONVerse heirarchical tree
o More nodes homing off a core District HG
-- Must *NOT* be any double links or routing loops!!!
** TRAINING:
1) How to edit AUTOEXEC.NOS to alter where your CONV bridge links
conv link 44.102.x.y 3600 MY_NAME
2) How IPIP Encapsulation (Protocol-4) works & the evilness of DYNGW
N8CML has a code fix for this and will submit it to Maiko
3) How to set up POP3 services in the POPUSERS file
Outlook/Pine/Outpost via ethernet (or Internet)
callsign:password:
access3.rc considerations
4) "Other" Hamgates around the world...and how to reach them
ve7sfu - port.ve3mch - w9da
-- Planned addition of TELPAC support to all HG's (-10 SSID)
o SMS has gone by the wayside with the new RMS
o Maiko coding to support B2F
** D1 D-Star deployment and possible integration with AMPRnet TCP/IP network?
o Progress report from D1 (Jon KC8VAB & Jim WB8AZP)
-- Status of QMN packet network decommisioning? (N8CML & N8LRF)
o K8AE Ann Travis, General Manager
o Asset assignment to DAPR? 501(c)3
- Pictures of a typical QMN node - mvc-750s (http://www.nuge.com/~wb8tkl/redcross)
** Status and future plans for the State EOC?
o Reduction of hidden transmitter collisions on 145.76
o Move to a MARC protected frequency? 145.01?
o MSP gives Okay to install JNOS and a local LAN
o Supplement the LG-Net (Local Gov't Net) ??
o ASEOC (Northville) under construction
** Status of NTSD? (zip|net@NTSMI.ampr.org)
++ MAPS MAPS MAPS MAPS!!!
++ Push for more Packet/AMPRnet presentations at clubs
o What have *YOU* done to get more Hams on Packet (JNOS or AX.25)?????
o What have *YOU* done to get JNOS into your EOC/Red-X/Leaderships home stations???
-- WiKi progress report (Skip K8RRA)
-- Performance Tuning (Skip K8RRA)
$$$ What can we do to improve the network if we had grant money???
o EFK's recent announcement
-- MI-AMPRNET@lugwash.org MajorDomo list
- To join send an Email Subscription Request to: Majordomo@lugwash.org
Put the following in the message body: subscribe MI-AMPRNET
--- THREE count 'em, THREE weekly CONVerse nets
o CONV-41 Saturday 8pm Chan 41 General Packet Chit-Chat
o CONV-41 Sunday 8pm Chan 41 Synopsis of MI ARPSC held net earlier on 3932
o L'Anse Creuse 7:30pm Chan 80 General chit-chat
-- Set Date and Location of the next Quarterly DRG meeting:
o Next meeting should be in July
o Set Date and Location
(NOTE: Last two years we met at the Lupton Outing)
Please send me any items you would like added to the agenda.
--- Jay Nugent WB8TKL
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