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<p><font face="Arial">On Wednesday 25 July 2018, I will be departing
for my annual road trip to the Colorado Rockies for the
Evergreen Jazz Festival <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://evergreenjazz.org"><http://evergreenjazz.org></a> . The
trip out there (1100 miles/1750 Km) takes two days of non-stop
driving. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">The first day (Wednesday) ends in Des Moines,
Iowa about 500 miles/800Km out. I will be beaconing on 60
meters with both standard 300 baud AX.25 and APRS Messengert
MFSK16. On the second day, which starts in Des Moines and
ends in the Denver, Colorado area, I will switch to the normal
30-meters HF APRS, since I will presumably be too far from the
home QTH (East Lansing, Michigan) 60-meter igate to hear me. I
will remain on 30 meters until the last day of the return trip
(Des Moines-->Home) where I will again start operating on 60
meters. The final day is tentatively on 1 August. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">I am carrying two monoband HamSticks, one for
30 meters and one for 60 meters. The mobile installation has a
Kenwood D700 VHF/UHF with full mobile laptop mapping and two-way
messaging, and two HF rigs. A Yaesu FT-891 is dedicated to the
30M & 60M HF APRS operation. General HF operation on 40M
through 6M (including my "Mobile SSTV LiveCAM") will be on a
Yaesu FT-857. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">At home, UIview mapping webservers/igates are
operating simultaneously on 30 & 60 meters. As usual, go to
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<p><font face="Arial"> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://WA8LMF.net/map"><http://WA8LMF.net/map></a></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">which takes you to my APRS webserver gateway
page. Click on the cyan button for the normal 30-meters mapping
server that shows everything I am hearing off-the-air at home in
real time. Click on the black "Special Events Webserver" button
for the special 60-meters mapping server. The 30-meter
receiving system is using my homebrew mag loop and an FT-891.
The 60-meter receiver is using a 105' dipole center-fed with
ladder line and an FT-857. All servers are up and running
now, even through the departure is a couple of days away.
Anyone else that wants to try beaconing on 60 meters (and maybe
being seen on my webserver, findu.com or APRS.fi) is welcome to
try. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">Details on the receive frequencies, tones, etc
for 60 meters is on the 60-meter server page, along with a route
map of the 60-meter portion of the trip. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">The calls/SSIDs for the various bands are:</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">- WA8LMF (no SSID) - Normal 144.39 2M APRS</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">- WA8LMF-2 - 30-meters AX.25 packet APRS<br>
- WA8LMF-63 - 30-meters MFSK16 or PSK63 APRS generated by APRS
Messenger</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">- WA8LMF-6 - 60-meters AX.25 packet APRS<br>
- WA8LMF-66 - 60-meters </font><font face="Arial"><font
face="Arial">MFSK16 or PSK63 APRS generated by APRS Messenger</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">All frequencies are routed
into my Panasonic CF-51 Toughbook mobile laptop via multiple
homebrew soundcard interfaces, and are capable of full two-way
messaging. <br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><font face="Arial">_______________________________________________________________________________________<br>
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com <br>
Skype: WA8LMF<br>
EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]<br>
Home Page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net">http://wa8lmf.net</a><br>
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Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.net/map"><http://wa8lmf.net/map></a><br>
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Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/HF_APRS_Notes.htm"><http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/HF_APRS_Notes.htm></a><br>
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