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Winslow GMRS repeater will be down for awhile. Going to move some parts around. Back soon! APRS iGate has been placed at the Winslow site for a while while, well, I move some parts around haha! More to come.

Well, at least the storms are. This past Saturday had a couple of sites out. I had to replace a power supply at Mountain View to get that back on the air, and thanks to Jon, K5DVT, for stopping at Brentwood to help me remote login to fix a boo-boo I did a week ago with a new VPN. Didn't know it til the power…

If the system goes on and off for a little today, changing over a UPS and redoing some powering to make the system more robust. Unless something else starts on fire, this will be done 2/18/26 by the PM.

I've got a second APRS digipeater going in here in Marion County. There are a few of the fellas that are getting into it and I'm gonna play with them. I may just make it a digi (plenty of gates) just to help expand the coverage. I need a diplexer so I can add it to an existing antenna that will improve coverage. I'm going…

Well if anyone was paying attention yesterday, I lost the little mini computer that ran my NA0D Hub. After saving the hard drive, cloning it into a new computer, messing with IP addressing and routing, rebuilding and installing backups, as well as general hijinks, it was back up last night after some hours. The hub is now on a major improvement of a computer, echolink…

I have a Broadcastify feed at NA0D Broadcastify that I've moved to its own node/seperate server. It used to run in the hub but any issues with it would require me to restart the hub, thus possibly dropping connections. Now, I can bounce the feed while I leave the hub alone, and can also disconnect if I see fit. This should help operations improve! Other…

The system is up the best it can be. I've done some tests, reboots, and made sure what works can work. My system is ready as it can be. I know some of my peers worked on some repeaters also and got them going, as well as many others checking their stuff to make sure its as operational as it can be. I salute all…

Happy New Year! Well, I was out fixing this week! What did we accomplish? Pushing forward for amateur radio and Arkansas Auxcomm in 2026!

Well, all my background gear is now happy in a fiber fed, climate controlled place. Went through and cleaned everything nice and during all of this, found the Flippin repeater had no output. Like ZERO power output. Boo, Bridgecom. I'll be sending this off soon. In its place, there is an old school Kenwood TKR-820 brought back from the dead with a new PA and…

I will be doing some hub and Flippin repeater work today, as in relocating, moving and redoing some equipment. Connectivity may be intermittent throughout the day. There will be an alert banner up while this happens. When done, hopefully everything comes back to normal and the banner will clear. I don't know about the Flippin repeater though, thats got issues of its own. I'll post…

Well, in what I thought was going to take forever and actually only took a couple of hours, I've moved Echolink off my main hub and gave it its own node. Now, Echolink is actually portable and can be moved to individual repeaters or wherever I want, without any risk to the NA0D Hub. Audio sounds good and the system running it is strong enough…

I'm working on this new RSS feed so updates can be faster and shared easier for me and you the viewer, if ya care. Be patient. The "old" Updates page will be migrated shortly. Keep an eye on HERE for the stuff!

So, thank you to N5XFW for an oppportunity, we have "new" Internet access at the Brentwood site that doesnt come with all the caps and junk we've been dealing with for the last couple of years. We will keep an eye on it and make sure that its working fine but at this point, its got great signal and is pushing all the bits we…

This weekend we'll be updating all systems as much as possible. I'd do it in the Sunday window but it's already started. Things are running well. I'm learning how to get my updates to show easier so once I figure this out we'll do more.