[HamGateNY] Welcome to HamGateNY

Wed Nov 11 06:52:27 EST 2020

KE7WWT
Jefferson County NY (North of Syracuse) located just a stone's throw away from the fence at Fort Drum.  Retired Army - 26 years, 7 months, 5 days and 2 hours.

I run the WINLINK Packet system and serve on the both ARES and RACES.  I am a DHS SHARES operator with ALE/Voice and HF RMS WINLINK.  I am also a MARS operator. 

I start this project almost a year ago and thanks to changes dealing with COVID, I have ran out of time, but hope to have things change soon.  I wanted to use the 44Net as a way to combine, in one box or two (ammo cans) the ability to have a mobile/portable node that serves Broadband Hamnet, APRS I-GATE and digi, remote control of base station radios, DMR and maybe D-STAR hotspots, and of course the ability to link and interface Packet. 

Jefferson and its surrounding counties (Saint Lawrence and Lewis) are the three poorest counties in the State, and as such, there is very little activity that requires expenditure of money.  As such, I have taken the "build it and they will come" mentality. In the end, it does not work - This is baofeng country.  Not a lot of hams, and not a lot of invested in the art and science of communications.  That said, I still want a method that can tie me into various networks to not only pull information, but also to share information for the benefit of a larger group.  I want something that is not internet-dependent, but is internet-enabled.  

In the end. .  I need a lot of help.

Mitch

-----Original Message-----
From: HamGateNY <hamgateny-bounces at n2nov.net> On Behalf Of Charles J. Hargrove
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 23:28
To: hamgateny at n2nov.net
Subject: Re: [HamGateNY] Welcome to HamGateNY

So far we have seen introductions from:
KA1NJL, K2JJT, WW2BSA, KB2AJM and AJ2A.

How about the rest of this 92 person group?
What is your set-up or what will it be?
What software, hardware, services, etc?
Let us all help each other to get things going.

On 11/5/2020 11:06 AM, Charles J. Hargrove wrote:
> Since the merger of the WNYPG mailing list into the HamGateNY list, we 
> now have 87 members (some who were on both lists).  This would be a 
> great opportunity to introduce yourselves.  Give us your callsign, 
> what area of NY State (or outside of it), what kind of packet system 
> you are running, etc.
> Let's use this list as a request-for-help and sharing of 
> knowledge/projects.
> 
> I will start:
> - N2NOV
> - Staten Island, NYC
> - EmComm lead for ARES/RACES during 9/11, 2003 Blackout, etc
> - Founder/President of NYC-ARECS (http://www.nyc-arecs.org)
> - running JNOS system since 1998 starting on DOS and now Linux
> - NY State 44Net/AMPR.org coordinator
> - IT field since 1989 (databases, networking, help desk, web hosting)
> - ran for Congress as a write-in twice 
> (http://www.HargroveForCongress.us)
> - Secretary of the Staten Island Libertarian Party
> 

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Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV
NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord.

NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 147.360/107.2 PL
ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM
NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM
http://www.nyc-arecs.org

NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan

"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus

"Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying (The work praises the man.)

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