K5VPW - AllStar Analog Simplex Node 575180
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AllStar Operating Procedures
To connect, simply key your transmitter and, using your touch tone pad, input *3(node number). To disconnect, key your transmitter and touch tone *1(node number). Please pause for 2 seconds after you key the transmitter before you speak or enter touch tones. This allows the connection to complete across the network and helps avoid dropping syllables or words from the start of your transmission. It will also ensure that touch tones are decoded properly. Please pause between transmissions to allow other stations to call or disconnect. Always disconnect the node when you are finished with your QSO. If the node is connected and you wish to connect to a different node, please ask if anyone locally is using the node. If there is no response, feel free to disconnect and connect to the node of your choice.
Useful touch tone codes
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Information About the AllStar Node
The node transceiver is a Yaesu FT-7900 running 5 watts. It drives a Btech amplifier with output of 22 watts. There is an external cooling fan on the FT-7900 and the amplifier. The node is located in northeast San Antonio, inside Loop 410. The antenna is a 11db gain mono-vertical, up 20 feet at the base. Feed line is 1/2 hardline. The node computer is a Raspberry Pi with 1gb of RAM, on a 32gb SD card. Operating system is 4.19.65-1-ARCH Linux. Internet speeds are 950mb download and 950mb upload.
| Node Number: | 575180 |
| Node Callsign: | K5VPW |
| Node Node Frequency / pl: | 441.625mHz / simplex / pl 136.5 |
| Node City: | San Antonio |
| Node State: | Texas |
| Node Country: | USA |
| Node Planet: | Earth |
| Node Install Date: | February 2024 |
| Node Owner: | Jim Finney |
| Node Latitude: | 29.47256 North |
| Node Longitude: | 98.51527 West |
| Node Timezone: | Central |
| e-mail node owner: | jpfinney@gmail.com |
| This information updated: | February 04, 2025 |
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