N5VLZ > ALL 22.01.26 01M13R0 9828 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW Subj: PCL NET SCRIBE JAN 19 2026 PCL NET SCRIBE JAN 19 2026 N5VLZ, Daryl, Arkansas (Net Control/Scribe) IK5NJM, Alex, Italy (Short Time) NS2B, Bob, New York (Sysop) KX4AC, Carl, Arizona VE7TCP, Jim, Canada N3MEL, Glenn, Pennsylvania ** N5VLZ: GE All, and welcome to the Jan 19 2026 PCL Net. No early checkins. Net order is Daryl, Bob (NY), Carl, Jim, and whoever else shows up. We're preparing for a potential snow and ice storm from Friday evening into early Sunday...with most of it Friday night and Saturday. I hope we get more snow than ice, although the grocery store runs for bread, milk, beer, and toilet paper, are underway (hi hi). If the Euro verifies, we'll get more snow than ice, and it tends to be more reliable than the other models. It hit the Christmas Day 2012 snowstorm dead on. The CMC model shows more ice, so I'm hoping it's wrong. The GFS is less aggressive now, but it wasn't that way, earlier. Several years ago, back to back ice storms had parts of northern Arkansas in the dark for nearly 2 months!! I was getting ready to checkin to the 20 meter QCWA HF Net yesterday afternoon, when I got a phone call from the Arkansas Skywarn Coordinator, who was wanting a winter weather briefing. All of the models have agreed on a similar solution 6 days out, which is very unusual. I look for a Winter Storm Watch to be out by Thursday morning, if not before. We will be below freezing all of the upcoming weekend, so not much melting will take place. When I got done with the phone call, someone else had switched the frequency on remotehams.com, so I said "nuts to that"...but I felt the weather data was far more important. I would rather have snow than ice, but it's too early for specifics. The hypecasters are all over social media with the worst case scenario. I likely will be up all night Friday with "The Weather Watch Net". As long as I can keep power, I'll be in good shape. My SharkRF OpenSpot 4 Pro decided to derail during the Trains Net Friday night, but I had the BlueDV program at the ready, so I was able to get back on track with the net...pun intended...not sure what the problem was. Found a new US Chat Room on NXDN, server 10020, thanks to Lee, N9NJS. Also, a new version of RMS Express for Winlink 2000 is out, as well as version 48 stable for the SharkRF M1KE. GE Bob, how was your week?? >>> ** NS2B: GE All. We have winter happening. Forecast says 3-6" of snow for us. I shan't complain. Buffalo is getting 12-18" and Watertown looking at 2 to 3 feet! This week was a week radio codeplug updating. Changed the way I get to the QuadNet Array. DMR+ had let me down last week so now I have D-Star, TGIF, and M17 all ready to go! The DLL I changed for node stability hasn't let me down yet. But I hesitate to say it's fixed; 'cuz as soon as I do she'll go down!! That's all for me, BTU Daryl >>> ** N5VLZ: Bob, Watertown will be such when all the snow melts fast (hi hi). FB on connections to the QuadNet Array, and you know you just jinxed things (hi hi). GE Carl, how was your week?? >>> ** KX4AC: GE All. Had a bit of a busy week, at least for being retired hihi. I have a laptop that came with something called "POP OS" pre-installed, but a couple of recent updates bricked it ... so I spent some time installing standard Debian, which works just fine on it. So, still spending some time on and off getting the new install setup the way I like it. I also spent some time looking at the Meshtastic info that Charley sent and also I got a GMRS license (WSLD861) so I guess now I need a GMRS radio. I will find out if there is really as much activity as the guy at HRO seemed to indicate. Finally, got the home Internet upgraded; just about double the speed, though I wish I could get something like Google fiber with symettric up/down speeds. It's not available in my area though, so I am sticking with DSL for the time being. That's about it for me. Back to net >>> ** N5VLZ: Carl, I'm always afraid a Windows Update will brick my setup. Microsoft has had to rollback some updates in the past...I think they test it on a blank system, but those updates tend to fry ham radio software. I probably won't check into a GMRS license, as I can't afford it or a rig. FB on the internet upgrade...but one gets spoiled after being on dial-up in the early years. GE Jim, welcome to the net. When you get done, type 3 greater than signs, and we'll know you are done. How was your week?? >>> ** VE7TCP: Thanks Daryl, I've been missing from this net for quite some time (and I'm on raw telnet right now so I have no backspace, :( ) I was just thinking about Windows updates breaking things and I sort of accidentally found a solution to this. I started using an old laptop from work they were disposing of for my ham laptop a number of years ago. It has Windws 7 on it. One updside of no updates = no breakage! hi hi I just have to make sure to stay off the Internet with it... I'm finally running into an issue with that, though. I bought an SDR and the software for it requires Windows 10 minimum, so it may be time to finally do something about that machine. I'm mostly a Linux user, but there are quite a few Ham software packages that only work in Windows, so that's why I had that laptop set aside for radio stuff. This "no backspace" business is frustrating - will need to remember to try to use something else next time. btu >>> ** N5VLZ: Jim, first glad to have you back. Second, that's a novel idea of no breakage...but there is a downside. I either use the DEL/BKSP key or CTRL-H if I need to. I'm using the iptelnet client with Outpost for the net. Not sure if that would help you or now. You are right, quite a bit of ham radio software is Windows only. GE Glenn, how was your week?? >>> ** N3MEL: Hello everyone, it has been a while since I have checked in, mostly because I have been sick since new years eve. Have not had a sinus infection this bad in a long time but final getting back to normal. Currently taking PKTNET multi mode check-ins this week up to 55 check-ins in 24 hours -- not a bad start. Speaking of internet, my comcast modem crapped out yesterday afternoon, and I had to pick up a new one today. Packet station finally getting back to normal. Oh, meant to thank Bob for his check-in today! We are expecting very cold temps here tonight through Wednesday, then snow again this weekend UGH. We received 5" this past weekend, so I am already tired of winter hi hi. That's it from here to btn >>> ** N5VLZ: Glenn, first there is a lot of flu and RSV down here right now...hope you get to feeling better. FB on the PKTNET checkins. On Xfinity, I have a plan where if the local connect drops, it switches to remote cell towers for data. I pay a little more a a month, but it's worth it. As for the winter, if the groundhog says 6 more weeks of winter in 2 weeks, he better put on a bulletproof vest (hi hi). That's it for round 1...back to the top for final comments. Bob, thanks for the use of the BBS, anything else?? >>> ** NS2B: You're welcome Glenn, I always look forward to your net. This feels like an old time winter. Meaning we'll be shoveling snow in April! Nothing else! Everyone have a good week - stay warm! 73 >>> ** N5VLZ: Bob, if nothing else, it keeps the bugs away. Thanks for being here. Carl, anything else?? >>> ** KX4AC: Good luck to everyone expecting snow. When I was little, we always looked forward to a big snowfall ... hoping for a snow day off from school :-) As you get older, you don't look forward to it as much. Shoveling and driving in it is not so much fun. It does remind me of a January I spent working in Syracuse. It never stopped snowing the whole time I was there. Anyway, not much snow in Phoenix. We rarely even get to freezing. So, good luck all and don't overexert with the snow shovels. 73 >>> ** N5VLZ: Carl, it's still true the way the kids and adults feel about the snow!! I have seen freeze warnings in that area at times, but it's rare. Thanks for being here. Jim, anything else?? >>> ** VE7TCP: I was going to say, good luck with the coming weather... I still look forward to snow, but that's because we so rarely get a "nice" amount of snow here - winter is mostly above freezing, so most of the precip comes as rain. It's gray and wet and depressing most winters, but as I like to remind people who've moved here from somewhere else, and complain about the rain, "you don't have to shovel rain." :) I was also sick with a flu (as were my kids) - two different strains, starting with my daughter Dec 24 and rotating through all of us. I finally got back to work a week ago :( Anyhow, I should go send a PKTNET check-in - 73 all >>> ** N5VLZ: Thanks for being here, Jim...and you are right...you do not have to shovel rain. :) Glen, anything else?? >>> ** N3MEL: Couple of things, Carl we used to go to school during and snow event less then 4 or 5" -- now they call school with 4 or 5 flakes OMG. Jim, I am using QTtermTCP as my terminal program. It does telnet place RF including VARA works great. That's it from here 73 >>> ** N5VLZ: Glenn, it's the same here on closing schools. But one year, they waited until the snow started, then they shut things down. By then, the roads were slicker than lard on a doorknob. FB on the terminal program. Thanks for being here. That will do it for tonight's PCL Net. I have to prepare for another net, so I'll post the scribe Tuesday. Stay safe, healthy, weather aware, on the warm side of the door, and radio-active. 73 and GN DE N5VLZ >>> ** Daryl Stout, N5VLZ, Little Rock, Arkansas Please see my QRZ bio for more information.
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