Jarbalo Amateur Radio Association
In Memory of Mac, W0ROO
On July 30, 2022, members of JARA moved the VHF repeater transmit antenna (144.79 MHz) from the tower to its own mounting platform. We had, what seemed, like a very limited and irregular coverage pattern. Suspecting that the proximity to the tower (<3 ‘) and location of the antenna entirely below the guy wires skewed…
At a well-attended Annual Meeting on Saturday evening, June 25, 2022, the following officers were elected to a one-year term commencing June 26, 2022: President Randy Brooks – KØAWW Vice President Brian Resch – NBØR Congratulate these two as we support them for another year of improving our repeaters, adding Mesh capabilities, operating via WiresX…
Join your fellow JARA members at our annual meeting the evening of June 25, 2022 during Field Day with the Pilot Knob Amateur Radio Club. The site is north of the VA Hospital in the city’s VA Park across the street from the dog park. The meeting will start around 6:00 pm. The key item…
Each Sunday evening in April 2002, we’ll explore JARA’s Wires-X capabilities: Our Configuration – How we’re wired for Wires-X Registering Your Radio – Two numbers are better than one Connecting to a Node/Room – There’s life out there Wires-X Etiquette – Being kind to fellow operators PDN: Direct Mode vs. Access Point operation Please join…
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…