Raytown Amateur Radio Club
At their last meeting the Raytown ARC decided to make their 442.400 UHF repeater exclusively digital, and in the Kansas City Wide room full-time.
Please join them at 8PM Central every Wednesday for their weekly UHF net!
DMR2YSF Bridge and Kansas City Wide
For those who use a DMR radio and a hotspot connected to US-KCWIDE via the DMR2YSF bridge:
When someone transmits on Fusion using the VW (voice wide) mode, that transmission cannot be passed to DMR. VW mode is a full-bandwidth mode, and is not bridged to a half-bandwidth DMR channel. The Fusion DN mode is half-bandwidth, and bridges to DMR without any problem.
If you’re only hearing one side of a conversation, this is likely the reason.
Rick WØFH
Special Net: Tuesday, October 21, 2021 9pm
Please join us for a special net on the Kansas City Wide room, at 9pm central on October 21, 2021. The special guest will be KI6NAZ Josh Nass from Ham Radio Crash Course on YouTube.
Josh will have a presentation for us, followed by plenty of time for questions and answers.
Remember, you can participate on any of the 20+ KCWide repeaters, via Echolink at W0FH-L, or via your Hotspot on YSF reflector US-KCWIDE.
About Josh Nass:
I’m KI6NAZ and I am passionate about ham radio.
I’m an engineering manager living in Southern California with my two kids and very understanding wife. Years ago, I started posting on YouTube about ham radio and today I host a few shows on the topic and have made a couple hundred thousand ham friends along the way.
I don’t like to toot my own horn but my wife I writing this so here’s some highlights to my amateur radio experience.
ARRL 2020 Bill Leonard W2SKE Professional Media Award for Video Reporting.
Discovery Channel’s Phantom Signals Radio Expert.
YouTube 2020 Silver Button Award for over 100,000 subscribers.
Guest on Fieldcraft Survival, The Jeep Podcast and Modern Rogue.
Link to Josh’s website: Ham Radio Crash Course – Moving Forward with Ham Radio
Repeaters being used for public service events this weekend 9/24-26
This weekend the Overland Park (146.910) and Olathe (444.250) repeaters will be tied up doing public service events.
On Friday and Saturday September 24 and 25 the Overland park repeater (146.910) will be disconnected from the KCW room and used on Fusion.
Please try to avoid keying up on that repeater.
Overland Park has its Fall Festival coming up next Saturday. Vendor set-up is next Friday and downtown will be blocked off.
If you would like to help with this event Dennis is the contact and is listed below.
Contact:
Dennis Smeltzer, KC0QBU
Radio Operator Volunteer
City of Overland Park
(w) 913 895 8301
dennis.smeltzer@opkansas.org
On Saturday and Sunday, September 25 and 26, the Olathe repeater (444.250) will be disconnected from the KCW room and used on Analog. Please try to avoid keying up on that repeater.
There is an MS Bike ride those days. If you would like to help with this event, Herb is the contact and is listed below:
Herb Fiddick (NZØF) hfiddick@gmail.com
YSF Reflector Now Linked!
The YSF reflector US-KCWIDE is now linked to the Kansas City Wide digital Fusion room.
This will allow access to the Kansas City Wide room via Yaesu Digital Fusion radios that do not have access to a Fusion repeater, and to DMR radios via the DMR2YSF abilities of Pi-Star.
Watch for future tutorials on how to configure Pi-Star.
Please note that this link is still in the early stages of implementation, and there may be outages.
Echolink Address Change
The Echolink connection to Kansas City Wide changed. The new link is WØFH-L or node 746258.
Before connecting to Kansas City Wide, we ask that you connect to the conference *ECHOTEST* and adjust your audio for the best quality. We work hard to keep the audio quality high on our digital repeaters.
Louisburg Repeater Down
The Louisburg repeater is currently down. We’re waiting on repair parts.