Amateur radio operators have long praised FT8 for its ability to punch through weak-signal conditions with minimal bandwidth, but critics have always noted one major limitation: it’s not conversational. Short exchanges of callsigns, grid squares, and signal reports don’t exactly replace a good ragchew. That changes today with the surprise release of Med8, a revolutionary […]
Nets
Repeater Feed Online
As a part of an experiment, we now have a feed available online for anyone wishing to listen in on our repeater traffic. This should allow members to listen in on the nets if they can’t participate, or hear what their audio sounds like on the repeaters. If using this to check your audio keep […]
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Simplex Net Files and Information
Area simplex nets are starting to form in the New River Valley. In the interest of gathering information for distribution, this page will serve files from captures of the data when available. File type is a .KMZ file that can be imported or opened by Google Earth. Please check back for additional files. Simplex-Net-2019-10-01 Simplex-Net-2019-09-24 […]
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Simplex Net Test
On September 3rd, there was an informal net communication that went out to the club email list. While this wasn’t an official club activity, I took interest in the information that was gathered and attempted to create a mapping of the contacts. Below is the resulting map image and a link to the Google Earth […]
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N4NRV Net – Audio Recordings
If time and circumstances permit, we will be posting recordings of our Nets for the purpose of training and helping radio operators hear their own station as re-broadcast from the Cloyd’s Mountain repeater.
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Other Nets of Interest
This is just a list of Nets that are of special interest to locals to the New River Valley area, or subject matter of interests to the club. If you would like something to be added, please use the contact page. Be sure to include a link to more information about frequencies, schedule, etc. Local […]
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N4NRV Nets
The New River Valley Amateur Radio Club would like to invite any licensed amateur radio operator within the sound of our repeaters to check in to our twice weekly nets. New or seasoned amateurs will find a friendly and learning atmosphere to our nets. We look forward to hearing from you. Thursday / Sunday FM Net This […]
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Net Control Operators Schedule
Download – FM_Net_Control_Script … NEW!!! Net Control Operators Note… If you would like to provide net training, the segments are available here in 3-5 minute segments. Please check the schedule for suggested segment number for your Net.Emergency Communications Training – Document Also, please send a simple email to W4XXV with the following information once the […]