Important Notice: The NSN - Net moves to a new day and time-slot.
This move is necessitated by the fact that many participating radio amateurs experience connection issues on a Thursday evening as the Net takes place during the peak Internet usage period. We cannot afford to leave radio amateurs in the cold and unable to participate.
It was therefor decided to move the NSN - Net to a Sunday afternoon after the "Bo Karoo Amateur Radio Klub" Bulletin which takes place every Sunday at 15h00. The NSN - Net will take place 10 minutes after the BK Bulletin. This will allow for the make of a nice cup of coffee between the two events. Another benefit would be that those connected to the ZS-Link Network need not disconnect from Echolink and can just continue with the NSN - Net.
Several radio amateurs expressed their satisfaction to the new day and time-slot as hopefully this will allow them to participate in the NSN - Net. It is hoped that the connection issues experienced by some will be solved and that we can continue with our interesting topics and discussions.
Summary:
NSN - Net will now take place on a Sunday afternoon 10 minutes after the Bo Karoo Amateur Radio Klub bulletin.
We will continue with the NSN - Net as before.
The first NSN - Net on a Sunday will take place on the 1 May 2022. Further reminders will be posted in this regard.
The weekly topic question will be:
"Do we need all the analog and digital amateur radio repeaters currently installed and operational in South Africa? Looking at the usage and cost to install and maintain these repeaters, should we still build repeaters and repeater networks?"
"Word analoog en digitale amateur radio herhalers wat tans geinstalleer en in gebruik is, steed benodig in Suid Africa? As daar gekyk word na die gebruik en kostes om 'n herhaler te installeer en te onderhou, moet ons voortgaan om herhalers en herhaler netwerke te installeer?"
We hope to welcome more radio amateurs to the NSN Net on a Sunday afternoon and trust that we will not lose any of our regular participants due to the new day and time-slot.
You can access the Net as follow:
- Echolink - Connect to ZS1I-L, ZS1FC-L, ZS3KBY-R or ZS5PMB-R Please note if the last 3 stations is not connected to ZS1I-L then you need to connect to ZS1I-L for the NSN Net.
- AllStar - Connect to node 49355
- VHF - 145.550 Mhz Simplex in the Mossel Bay area. Remember the 88.5 khz CTCSS tone
- Any other Echolink, AllStar repeater or link station that is connected to either ZS1I-L or node 49355
- Use of your cellphone by installing Echolink on your phone
- By means of a Network Radio example Enrico TM8 etc.
Hope to hear you on the NSN Net!!
