“You don’t need to see it to do it!” KEYT TV did a great interview with our favorite Cuckoo Net personality, WB6OBB, and his other passion, refurbishing and tuning pianos. Watch the interview on the KEYT web site here.
Over the past week, I have been testing a live, worldwide, streaming audio feed of the K6TZ repeater on 146.79 MHz. Now visitors to the club Web site can listen to the repeater from their computer or smartphone when a radio or scanner is not handy. For non-hams or prospective hams, this provides an opportunity to listen in to the local activity on 2-meter Amateur Radio before even buying a radio! There is a link to the stream in the right-hand sidebar “Quick Links” section called K6TZ Repeater Live Audio, which takes you to the Web site for the live audio stream. This stream is accessible from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. Listening on mobile device can be accomplished with an app called Scanner Radio by Gordon Edwards. There are versions of the app for iOS and Android, so you can take the repeater with you wherever you travel! The app also allows you to listen to thousands of ham radio and public safety scanners on your phone or tablet. Right now my scanner is configured to scan both the 2-meter and 70cm K6TZ repeaters. The scanner listens to 146.790 (primary) & 446.400 (IRLP node 3673). Scan priority is given to 146.790 (the main SBARC repeater) where the most traffic and many weeknight nets can be found. Let me know what your experiences are with this new feature by leaving a comment on this post.
We had a great discussion with Brian, K6BPM and Levi, K6LCM, the creators of the new SBARC Web site project and this new site. If you have any questions about the site, register for an account on the right side of the site and then login to post your comment on this post. Join us on the air every morning from 7am-8:30 on 146.79 – Pl 131.8. Post expires at 11:59pm on Tuesday January 27th, 2015 but will still be available in the archives.
The January Club Meeting featured an interesting presentation by Julianne Walsh on 3D printing. She brought along a working 3D printer to demonstrate and a couple of “home brew” printers to show. 3D printing is going to be the revolution of the decade and will soon be able to print almost everything from tools to human organs. Thanks Julianne for the great presentation! Post expires at 11:00pm on Monday February 2nd, 2015 but will still be available in the archives.
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