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Rotary Club Bike Ride 2014 – August 23, 2014

Clay County ARES will be supporting this event next weekend.  For more information please checkout out the website addresses below. For those that have volunteered I have sent an email out as of 08/13/2014 with the initial assignments.

Date: August 23, 2014

Start Location:
Hibernia Baptist Church
7100 Highway 17 South
Fleming Island, FL 32003

Website Address: http://www.rotarybikeride.com/
Bike Routes: http://192.185.169.35/~rotary1/images/PDF/RiderRoute.pdf

Directed And Tactical Net Procedures

Greater Jacksonville Hamfest 2014

For more information on the hamfest visit the website
http://oparc.net/gjh/

Download The Hamfest Flyer

All the proceeds go to support the Scottish Rite Masonic Center

Date: January 25-26, 2014
Hours: 9AM – 5PM.
Vendors can start set-up at 8am

Testing registration is on the website page.

How To Backup Your D-RAT’s Configuration Files

If you need to get a backup of the D-RATS configuration you can copy out all the contents of the configuration file directory. It also has all your custom forms, mail etc.

The d-rats.config is the main configuration file for the D-RATS program.
The repeater.config is the main configuration file for the D-RATS repeater or called ratflector.

Windows v7, v8, 8.1

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\D-RATS
%username% will take the default username you are signed in with or you can type in your user profile name listed under c:\users\?

Linux

/home/*yourusername*/.d-rats#
“.d-rats” is a hidden a folder in your home directory.

On PI with pi user it is /home/pi/.d-rats#

Recommendations For APRS SSID’s

This article was written by WB4APR.

Source:  http://aprs.org/aprs11/SSIDs.txt

APRS SSID Recommendations                                  6 Feb 2012
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-0 Your primary station usually fixed and message capable
-1 generic additional station, digi, mobile, wx, etc
-2 generic additional station, digi, mobile, wx, etc
-3 generic additional station, digi, mobile, wx, etc
-4 generic additional station, digi, mobile, wx, etc
-5 Other networks (Dstar, Iphones, Androids, Blackberry’s etc)
-6 Special activity, Satellite ops, camping or 6 meters, etc
-7 walkie talkies, HT’s or other human portable
-8 boats, sailboats, RV’s or second main mobile
-9 Primary Mobile (usually message capable)
-10 internet, Igates, echolink, winlink, AVRS, APRN, etc
-11 balloons, aircraft, spacecraft, etc
-12 APRStt, DTMF, RFID, devices, one-way trackers*, etc
-13 Weather stations
-14 Truckers or generally full time drivers
-15 generic additional station, digi, mobile, wx, etc

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