Jarbalo Amateur Radio Association
In Memory of Mac, W0ROO
In the “It’s About Time” category, JARA is updating this web site to make it easier to find “How To’s” so you can quickly take advantage of everything Yaesu System Fusion has to offer. We hope you find the site more user-friendly. Use the Contact Us feature if there is something you can’t find or…
The JARA 2021 Annual Meeting took place on June 26, 2021 at the PKARC Field Day site following dinner. The following were elected to the highest offices in the land (JARA land, that is): President: Vic Henke – KEØSYOVice President: Randy Brooks – KØAWW JARA is a no-dues, all-volunteer effort to provide a great Ham…
After a long-term Spectrum outage and then Microsoft pushing an update which kicked Wires-X off the node, problems have been resolved and the node was back on the air on Monday, June 28. The pi-star node is a Wires-X to PiStar air gap which requires two Internet connections. Since the network at NJØP was already…
The node that connects pi-star hotspots (both DMR-to-YSF and YSF-to-YSF) to the JARA Room is in the process of moving. The move should be complete before Field Day 2021. On its first move, we ran into the problem of node configuration competing for the same Wires-X firewall pass-through ports. We have a secondary location which…
JARA is proud to display our current configuration. We now have two Yaesu Fusion DR-2X repeaters. The UHF (444.800 + T00R00) and VHF (145.33 – 151.4/T00R00) repeaters are now independent and no longer share a single transmitter. This is especially handy on Sunday evenings when we have back-to-back nets that often overlap. Plus, we no…
We’ve been addressing Yaesu Fusion C4FM topics every Sunday evening since June 7, 2020. Seems we’ve covered everything, so a survey of net participants was sent out and results reviewed on our January 31st net.Results of the Survey The predominate topics to be addressed on future nets are: Wires-X (any aspect) Firmware Updates Simplex Operations…
Now that the VHF side of the repeater (145.33/- 151.4 Hz) is up and operating, the first net of the year will take place starting at the stroke of midnight, January 1, 2021 on our repeater. For nearly fourty years, the NØKOA repeater, located at the David Funeral Chapel in Leavenworth, hosted the Annual Buffalo…
Dave-K0AVN, Gary-W0MNA, Vic-KE0SYO, Randy-KF0AWW, and Rick-NJ0P met on Saturday morning, December 5th to move the 145.33 FM repeater from David Funeral Chapel to Saint John Hospital (SJH). That repeater is now on the air at SJH with the following parameters:Frequencies: 145.33/144.73Tone: 151.4 HzPower: 25 WattsAntenna: 5-element loop antenna, tower-mountedPriority: Shared/secondary transmitter with UHF RptrMode: FM…
On Thursday, October 22, 2020, the Trustee completed fall maintenance of the repeater. Services included: Replaced temporary patch cables and adapters with rugged custom cables. Replaced temporary PL259 lightning arrestor with new N-connector version. Labeled down feeds for easier inventory. Checked all grounds and tightened all connectors. Disassembled and cleaned repeater interior (esp. fans and…
October 10. 2020. Your JARA President and Trustee, along with PKARC President and one supervisory parent made the trek skyward and added the new Workman UVS-200 U/VHF antenna to the top of the St. John tower. This added 15′ of height and put the receive antenna in the clear. We are looking for your signal…