TRYON Amateur Radio Club – K2JJI

Joyce Ashe - EOC Ceremony.

Last Wednesday the Tryon Amateur Radio Club had the honor of dedicating our ham radio room at the EOC (Emergency Operation Center) to the clubs founder Gary D. Ashe K2RKW (SK).

We were accompanied by members of the club, community, member of the press, politicians and more importantly Gary’s family.

Our current president Don Gifford (WA2EZ) presented a room dedication plaque to Gary’s widow Joyce Ashe. She also participated on the ribbon cutting ceremony.

The local news paper “The Leader Herald” was present at this event and published an article about the ceremony. To read the article please click here.

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Richard “W4PC” Has posted on this QRZ forum post the announcement of the release of Ham Radio Deluxe version 5.1 build 3209.

HRD Software, LLC announces the release of Ham Radio Deluxe 5.1. This version incorporates fixes and some new features for DXers.

“This is our first release since obtaining the source code about 90 days ago,” said Mike Carper, WA9PIE. “My partner, Rick, W4PC has done an outstanding job at becoming familiar with the code and developing the applications. We were fortunate to have a few key resources like Chuck, K7PT and Terry, G4POP to help us QA the builds as they’re developed.”

The 5.1 release is being made available at no charge to users registered on the HRD website. The focus for this release was a few items from the ToDo list – bug fixes, added rig support, and a few enhancements.

Mike said, “I think we’ve taken a balanced approach to getting something out quickly that satisfies a broad range of needs. I hope hams will enjoy the improvements. Obviously, this is only the beginning. We’ve got big plans and high-expectations for HRD in the future.”

Following the 5.1 release, HRD Software intends to focus on more fixes and significant feature enhancements for v6.x with a target release at the Dayton Hamvention 2012.

As promised, version 5.1 is FREE!

HRD Downloads: http://www.ham-radio-deluxe.com
HRD Forum: http://forums.hrdsoftwarellc.com

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The ARRL has released the new amateur radio band plan with the changes to the 60M band.

To download the color band plan in PDF format click here.

Reception reports indicate that ARISSat-1/KEDR has stopped transmitting on Wednesday, January 4, 2012. The last full telemetry captured and reported to the ARISSatTLM web site at 06:02:14 UTC on January 4 were received from ground stations as the satellite passed over Japan.

You can view the full telemetry display or the condensed telemetry display.

Telemetry reports showed that the temperature aboard ARISSat-1/KEDR had been rising as atmospheric drag began to affect the satellite. Final temperatures received via ARISSatTLM reported this data:

Konstantin, RN3ZF sent a reception report of his copy of the 0842 UTC pass that, "the telemetry was absent, voice messages were not legible, very silent and interrupted. Most likely, I saw last minutes in the life of the satellite."

Dee, NB2F reported, "Nothing heard from ARISSat-1/KEDR on any frequency during the first USA pass at 16:00 UTC, January 4."

ARISSat-1/KEDR was deployed from the International Space Station on August 3, 2011 during during EVA-29 on by Cosmonaut/Flight Engineers Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev.

The satellite carried a student experiment from Kursk State University in Russia which measured atmospheric density. Students from around the world provided the voices for the FM voice announcements.

For more information visit: AMSAT.org

I would like to inform everyone about a few new echolink commands I (KC2UEZ) added to node.
Since winter is coming, I wanted to be able to get the local temperature, forecast and warnings if any.
The commands are:

• 50 Local Time
• 51 Local Weather conditions
• 52 Local Temperature + time when measured
• 53 Local forecast
• 54 Local weather warnings
• 55 Local weather warnings summary
• 56 Local extended weather warnings

For the full list of commands visit: Echolink Info.