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Subj: PCL NET SCRIBE FEB 9 2026
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PCL NET SCRIBE FEB 9 2026
N5VLZ, Daryl, Arkansas (Net Control/Scribe)
NS2B, Bob, New York (Sysop)
VA7RBP, Rick, Canada
KF5TVG, Bob, Oklahoma
KX4AC, Carl, Arizona (1 Rounder)
N3MEL, Glenn, Pennsylvania
K0WAV, Scott, Arkansas
NT5R, Charley, Missouri
KE6ONV, Jay, California
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N5VLZ:
GE All, and welcome to the Feb 9 2026 PCL
Net. No early checkins.
Net order is Daryl, Bob (NY), Rick, Bob (OK), Carl,
Glenn, Scott, Charley, Jay, and whoever else shows
up.
Sorry I missed last week. It wasn't due to the
Groundhog (who has gone AWOL (hi hi)), but due
to a HandiHam Radio Club Net Control Station
meeting, as there were some issues that needed
to be discussed. I'm one of the substitute Net
Control Stations, so I don't have to call the
net that often...but usually get asked to fill
in at the last minute. I ran the Arkansas
D-Star Net last night, as the Net Control
Station was down with kidney stones (been there,
done that, got the wardrobe).
Except for some shaded and rural areas, all of
the snow and ice from the late January winter
storm is gone (it was in the 70s here today).
We are in severe to extreme to exceptional
drought, but it looks like we will get some
much needed rainfall over the next 2 weeks; as
the farmers need it for their spring planting.
But, this time of year, also means a threat of
severe weather. I'm preparing an S.E.T. on
severe weather, but it has to be approved. If
it is, it'll be a dry run for "the real thing",
coming sooner or later. One will be able to
listen to it via Broadcastify.
I'm working getting some documents together,
and if everything is approved, by possibly June,
I'll have some extra funds that I can use for a
mini vacation later this year. If I can get a
good deal on a combo plane trip and hotel stay in
late August through the AARP, I'll make a trip to
the Huntsville Hamfest and the 2026 ARRL National
Convention. However, this is still on the wish
list, but it'd make a nice birthday present; just
to get a away for a few days. But, I am not
counting the chickens before they're hatched.
Also, I'm working on a better price deal to get the
fungus removed from the wood under the house, and
hope to start that next month.
Through remotehams.com (that's the free one), I was
able to checkin to the Quarter Century Wireless
Association (QCWA) 20 meter HF net yesterday...it
was my first HF transmission in 15 years!! Once I
get some more practice with it, I'll try to check
into some HF nets, but my main mode will be D-Star;
although I'll stil be doing APRS, packet via telnet,
D-Rats, Echolink, Winlink 2000, and CQ200 each week.
I'll be promoting the QCWA at 2 upcoming hamfests...
the Lawrence County Winterfest in Hoxie on Feb. 21,
and the ARVARF Hamfest in Dardanelle on March 7. Of
note, the latter weekend is the spring forward time
change to Dumb Stupid Time (Daylight Savings Time),
on Sunday, March 8, at 2am local time. Most net times
(including this one) won't change, but UTC Times will
be one hour earlier (if you observe the time change).
However, for stations like Carl, KX4AC, in Arizona,
his UTC time remains the same, but his checkin times
will be an hour earlier, as they'll be on the same
time as California.
I added a bunch of nets to the Excel and PDF Net List
of D-Star, D-Rats, and Echolink Nets, via the KN4EWT-L
node...and they're now off the hyperlink on my QRZ bio.
GE Bob (NY), how was your week??
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NS2B:
GE All!
It was cold! And I think I was shoveling snow every
day!
I finally got bit by the Meshtastic bug. Ordered a
kit for that. Supposed to here tomorrow.
Finished Hamword today.
Made a couple contacts on HF packet (Net105) and
that's been my week.
BTU Daryl >>>
**
N5VLZ:
Bob (NY), winter may not be over. FB on the Meshtastic,
Hamword, and Net 105 HF Packet.
GE Rick, how was your week?? >>>
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VA7RBP:
GE Daryl and all on the NET!
Nothing exciting to report this week, just the usual
radio activities, and helping out Arlene with the
chores, dinners, laundry, shopping...etc. She did
complaing about the toilet height, so on Friday I
had to drive to Trail and buy a new one that's three
inches taller than the old one, and install it.
She's happy, for the moment...
Our weather hasn't changed much in the past week, no
snow, gloomy cloudy skies, and temperatures between 35
and 45F during the day. I have started doing walks a
couple times per day, just to keep the muscles active.
Well, that's about it. I did say nothing exciting to
report... BTU Daryl >>>
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N5VLZ:
Rick, after my hip replacement surgery awhile back,
there was a bedside commode here, that was never used.
So, I removed the bucket, and set the legs to give me
a bit more height.
Most of my walking is around the house, as I rarely
leave the QTH anymore.
GE Bob (OK), how was your week?? >>>
**
KF5TVG:
GE Daryl and all on the net!
Not much to report; another beautiful day out here on
the plains...especially for February! Was sunny and around
70F.
I've been working on a project for a ham friend that lost
his sight a couple of years ago. he has an old JRC AS5245
HF radio that has a RS232 port on the back, and would like
to have a way to control it and hear settings, such as freq,
filter, AGC, etc.
I'm thinking an Adafruit RP2040 PropMaker, which has a nice
cpu, and a class D audio amp right on the board. In the
early stages of design.
Hoping to get a Meshtastic node mounted on the National
Weather Center building on the OU campus on Thursday. Should
give us much better coverage to the south of Norman.
That's all for now. BTU Daryl>>>
**
N5VLZ:
GE Charley, you'll be after Scott...Jay, you'll be after
Charley.
Bob (OK), the snow and ice from the late January storm is
all gone, but winter isn't over.
FB on the project to help that blind ham, and for the
Meshtastic Node you hope to get going at OU.
GE Carl, how was your week?? >>>
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KX4AC:
GE All on the net!
Sorry I missed last week. I had trouble getting in; turned
out to be a misconfiguration on my end. Anyway, got it fixed
for this week.
We are getting to the nice time of year here, so I am spending
more time outdoors with my HT in "foot mobile" mode. We have a
nice park near the house, so I can just sit over there if I am
lazy :-)
I got one of those cheap anytone DMR radios and am trying to
get it configured. Nothing matches the manual that came with
the radio, but I am getting it figured out. There seem to be at
least a couple of DMR repeaters around here, so I am interested
in seeing what activity there may be.
As for HAMWORD, I have been playing, but so far only 1 guess
this week. Sometimes I race through the game in one day, but
usually I try to space it out.
That's about all from Arizona. Back to net >>>
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N5VLZ:
Carl, those configuration errors happen at the worst time. FB on
the improving weather. GL on getting the DMR Anytone radio setup,
and FB on HamWord.
GE Glenn, how was your week?? >>>
**
N3MEL:
Hello everyone.
I am on call this week and we are busy so hoping to hang in here
tonight. I have a few Meshtastic units here but really don't see
much use for it. So I took my and re-flashed the firmware and
made portable 915 packet kiss nodes out to them.
Had about all I take of winter now, we had -9 wind chills here
this past weekend..UGH
Will be sending out the instructions for the Feb PKTNET on Wednesday,
and it start this coming Sunday. Looks like the TPRFN network will
be picking 2 or 3 more stations in the coming weeks.
That's about it from SEPA BTN >>>
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N5VLZ:
Glenn, you do what you can with what you have. As for winter, it may
not give up without a fight. FB on the PKTNET and TPRFN network.
GE Scott, how was your week?? >>>
**
K0WAV:
Past week was a bit hit and miss. We are about 75% moved, the curse
of only moving 5 miles, and no time limit to get it done, things
slip easy.
Being what it is, I have survived the ice and snow with out incident
from the storm 2 weeks ago. With possible exception of get an antenna
up. I am still HT only (local 'peaters) at this time, but hope to get
some of that fixed over the coming weeks.
Finally got my NODE back online after the clapped out old laptop I
had stuff on turned toes up. So good to be back around.
Club finally found a way to get internet to Repeater Site that has
a Static IP, so we will be moving forward with our digital upgrades,
Wires-X, maybe even APRS or Winlink thrown in, we'll see.
That is it for me BTU >>>
**
N5VLZ:
Scott, it was hard for me moving back to what was my parents home
from H.U.D. subsidized housing, where I lived from just before I
got married in 2003, until I had to put my Mom in a nursing home in
2018, a year before her death. Many items are still in the garage,
but since I no longer drive or have a car, that gives me some extra
space.
FB on getting a new computer setup for the node, and GL to the club
on the digital upgrades.
GE Charley, how was your week?? >>>
**
NT5R:
ge everyone
been out of pocket all year! Back in MO for while. Did miss out on
extreme winter weather. Still some snow piles remaining from parking
lot clearings.
Glenn, sounds interesting repurpose Mesh to 915 packet node. May want
to learn more about that.
Was added bonus in Arizona eyeball qso with you Carl. Hope your DMR
going well. Anytone good rig. Progamming by hand not too bad after
awhile, but handy building or using local code plug.
Bob OK FB on your weather. My thermometer reads couple degrees hign
but showed 78.8 today - Google said 73 d f.
Bob NY hearing you having some winter weather, hope everyone ok.
Scott, holler if need any testing from this direction with your
new location.
so btu Daryl>>>
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KX4AC:
Need to leave and pickup friend who's car died.
**
N5VLZ:
Carl, no problem...thanks for stopping by.
Charley, you are the world traveler. Glad you and Carl had an eyeball
QSO.
GE Jay, how was your week?? >>>
**
KE6ONV:
GE everyone on the net. First time checkiong in live
Looks like a need a tutor my text is yellowish. All fine in SCA
warm and sunny 70 and then rain and 50; oh well that's winter here.
Bought 2 Baofeng HTs and also are walkie talkie and all the function
of a regular HT and $38 out the door, amazing.
Not much else happening here but all modes and radios are fB.
GE all 73 and back to net >>>
**
N5VLZ:
Jay, thanks for being here. It could be your monitor or the telnet
client settings. There are some funny memes regarding Baofengs in
that Ham Radio Humor file I maintain.
That's it for round 1...back to the top for final comments.
Bob (NY), thanks for the use of the BBS...anything else for us?? >>>
**
NS2B:
nothing more here - everyone have a good week - 73 >>>
**
N5VLZ:
Bob, take care...see you next time.
Rick, anything else?? >>>
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VA7RBP:
Nope, that's it for this week. Everyone have a great week, stay well,
73 until next time. BTU Daryl >>>
**
N5VLZ:
Rick, thanks for being here.
Bob (OK), anything else?? >>>
**
KF5TVG:
Good to be here! Hope all have a great week. 73 and BTU>>>
**
N5VLZ:
Have a good week, Bob...see you down the log.
Glenn, anything else?? >>>
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N3MEL:
no nothing more from here, except Charley Google RNODE for the
firmware.
73 GN >>>
**
Glenn, thanks for the tip for Charley...see you next week.
Scott, anything else?? >>>
**
K0WAV:
Nothing much just hope to see more the blue sky and 75F temps like
we had today! BTU >>>
**
N5VLZ:
Thanks for being here Scott. Winter isn't over, as this might be
"a false spring".
Charley, anything else?? >>>
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NT5R:
FB Glenn, will check that. Everyone have an awesome week. Type at
you later, 73 >>>
**
N5VLZ:
Thanks for being here, Charley...catch you later.
Jay, anything else?? >>>
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KE6ONV:
TNX for forwarding my mess and tnx for running the net. Everyone
enjoy the week. 73 all >>>
**
N5VLZ:
Jay, we don't mind early checkins via Email or Winlink. Join us when
you can.
That'll do it for tonight's net. I have to prepare for another net
very shortly, so I'll post the net sometime Tuesday.
73 and GN DE N5VLZ. >>>
**
Daryl Stout, N5VLZ, Little Rock, Arkansas
Please see my QRZ bio for more information.
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