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I have a question for any WinLink experts here. Someone in my club set up a new WinLink gateway for VARA FM and 1200 baud packet. He can connect to his own gateway (using a second rig, computer, and SignaLink), but I can't and several others have tried and can't connect to his gateway either. Whether attempting via packet or VARA FM, and whether trying to connect, send a ping, or calibrate with his gateway, I get the same "no signal" error. I've tried two different antennas (Comet GP-3 vertical and a 5-element yagi), I've tried power as low as 5W and as high as 50W, I've tried various SignaLink settings, all with no luck. Yet I can connect via multiple other packet and VARA FM gateways just

What do you do for Field Day if thunderstorms are expected in your area all weekend? Cancel? Set up but unplug whenever lightning is detected within x miles of your site?

I've been lucky to have enjoyed mostly good weather during Field Days of the past. Looking at the forecast for next weekend though, it seems my luck may have run out, as it's calling for thunderstorms all weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). I'm the president of my local club. I don't want to call off our activation unnecessarily, but I absolutely want to ensure the safety of the operators and any guests.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

What do you all use for logging and/or digital modes while operating portable/POTA? My requirements are that it be compact, lightweight, low power drain, simple to set up/use, and rugged enough to use from a park.

I've just used a notebook and pencil in the past, but want to upgrade to something that can also do digital modes (including FT8).

My research has led me to three main options:

1. A lightweight, power-efficient laptop
2. Microsoft Surface tablet
3. Raspberry Pi (with either a portable screen, keyboard and mouse, or I've read I can use an iPad as a remote control for the Pi)

Any recommendations?

I haven't been able to catch any of the Spring Training games yet this year, or even read much about where the team is at so far.

So, with the season approaching in just over a week, I need to get caught up. What have I missed? How is the team looking? Any new players I should know about?

From scanning the sub's first page of articles just now, I learned Vladdy has been mashing (.600 average in Spring Training?! I like it!) and we had a new closer (Kirby Yates? Hadn't heard of him), but he just got injured (boo...). What else?

Thanks in advance, all. Let's go Blue Jays!!

As the title says, anyone know what happened to the company? Did they go under? I'd been debating buying either an Ultimax 100 or DXtreme end-fed from them and was finally about to pull the trigger tonight, only to find their website no longer works.

The homepage (http://www.ultimax-antennas.com/) shows only a 403 Forbidden error, and going to any of their pages directly (products, contact, etc) from Google I get a 404 Not Found. A seller on ebay (user lostchild2u) still shows to have some of their antennas in stock, but not the DXtreme that I was leaning towards.

If they did go under, that's a shame. Seemed like they made great antennas. EHam had all kinds of good reviews for their stuff.

Hey guys, I just came across this guy on Twitter, Ed Chee, who makes awesome drawings summing up each Jays game. They're pretty good, so I thought I'd share here with others who would appreciate them. As an example, here's his of the double header game: https://twitter.com/cheechoo98/status/986735168617500672?s=19

I was just playing a game in my Kaga and most of the match, alt attack wasn't working. I'd press alt and click and nothing happened. Didn't matter whether I was using TBs, DBs or fighters. Every now and then it would work again, but then the next drop it was messed up again. I had to auto-drop most of the match like a putz, had an awful match and my team lost.

This was my first CV game since the new patch. Possible bug? Anyone else having this issue?

I've had my general for a few months, but am finally building an HF station thanks to a very generous equipment donation from an Elmer friend. Within a hefty "portable" enclosure is a Yaesu FT-857D, Icom IC-2720, LDG AT-200Pro tuner, SCS PTC-IIusb PACTOR controller, and a very old laptop to run the digital modes. The Elmer had all of this wired up with Powerpoles, with a double Powerpole input to power the whole box.

So, given the FT-857D draws 22A on transmit, I'd like to go with at least a 30A continuous power supply to allow a little extra for the other components. I also need that power supply to have Powerpoles built in, but after searching HRO, DXE, GigaParts and others, the few power