Winlink Express

STXARES
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Hello to All
My name is Thurman Roberson (Robby) I been an Amateur Radio operator since June 1990
Just to give you a little bit of my background I was the Training Director for Army Mars under then Chief Army Mars Bob Sutton. I started using digital with packet bulletin boards then switched over to Aplink with Victor Poor (SK) then switched over to Winklink Classic v 1dk then winlink started progressing from there to what it is today what I ask of all stations if you are operating any kind of digital station please send an email to N5TW so your station can be added to the Texas RMS Packet/VARAFM Station Uptimes it is very helpful and useful in the time of need with hurricane season vastly approaching all stations are in need all members and non members of south are encouraged to list there stations
Thank you
Robby/AA5AF
STXARES ASEC Digital

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I appreciate Robby posting this! Just to clarify, we track RMS Stations across Texas with the results shown here:

PacStat Uptime Data

If a Winlink RMS station is active, it will show up on the Winlink.org station status page but that is a rather tedious way to see if a station is active. What our website (created by my bride Judy) does is to look up status information on all stations on our list and displays their status all in one place.

John N5TIM maintains the list of North Texas stations and I maintain the list for South and West Texas.

As Robby said, having stations on this list helps let others see what stations might be active.

If you run an RMS station in South Texas and are not on this list, you can send me an email with your station’s information. Specifically, here is the information I need:

  1. County
  2. Station callsign plus SSID
  3. Frequency
  4. Digipeater callsign if any
  5. User Winlink callsign for others to direct Winlink emails to your station
  6. Any short comment you would like displayed

Tom N5TW

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I appreciate Robby posting this! Just to clarify, we track RMS Stations across Texas with the results shown here:

PacStat Uptime Data

If a Winlink RMS station is active, it will show up on the Winlink.org station status page but that is a rather tedious way to see if a station is active. What our website (created by my bride Judy) does is to look up status information on all stations on our list and displays their status all in one place.

John N5TIM maintains the list of North Texas stations and I maintain the list for South and West Texas.

As Robby said, having stations on this list helps let others see what stations might be active.

If you run an RMS station in South Texas and are not on this list, you can send me an email with your station’s information. Specifically, here is the information I need:

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Thanks for having an Express station but what we are trying to collect is information on the RMS Packet or RMS VaraFM stations in operation in Texas. Sorry for the confusion.

Tom N5TW

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I am the Trustee for W5PAS. We have a packet and VARA station at the Pasadena EOC
Harris County
W5PAS-10 Packet 145.050
W5PAS-12 VARA FM 145.050
W5PAS-5 Digipeater 145.050

Winlink Callsign is W5PAS but not monitored regularly

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Perfect – does that digipeater work for both packet and VARA FM?

***Folks – please correspond with me through tom.n5tw at gmail.com so we don’t torture this whole list with this traffic ***

Tom N5TW

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W5PAS-5 is packet only

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Roger.

N5TW

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Everyone can now see the Pasadena EOC stations on the Texas RMS Status website.

PacStat Uptime Data

Tom N5TW

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Tom and FYI to the rest…
May be a picture is worth a few hundred thousand words…

Here is a link to Tom’s Texas RMS Packet/VARA FM Station Uptimes…
http://n5tw.ecpi.com/RMSstatus/

Fill in any MISSING info like stations Tom doesn’t know about…

Update any info that this is WRONG or INCOMPLETE…

73 Dallas N4DDM
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Thanks for having an Express station but what we are trying to collect is information on the RMS Packet or RMS VaraFM stations in operation in Texas. Sorry for the confusion.

Tom N5TW

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Thanks Tom.

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Tom,
I just brought this node up on a permanent basis. There are no other nodes reachable in this area.

  1. County- Polk
  2. Station callsign plus SSID- NB5C-10
  3. Frequency- 145.060
  4. Digipeater callsign if any- None
  5. User Winlink callsign for others to direct Winlink emails to your station- NB5C
  6. Any short comment you would like display- Public. VARA FM and Packet. Running RMS Packet on a local server. Internet connection is via Starlink. Current antenna height is only 12 Ft at my home. This MAY change in the future.
  7. Let me know if you have any questions. NB5C Donald Schneider 14-373-D
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Thanks!

Tom N5TW

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Tom,
I do not have a digipeater setup NB5C-5.

I just realized what that setting was for.
Thank you
NB5C Donald

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