EARS Winlink RMS’s Are Coming Back To Life

As local Winlink users may know, the 2-meter, 1.25-meter, and 70 cm Winlink RMS stations located at the EARS club station on Elmendorf AFB have been down since late spring of 2024. From a practical perspective, most of that station’s assets have been off they air since then. Why? The Air Force commissioned a complete re-roofing of the building which required us to remove ALL of our roof-mounted antennas. Due to time constraints and a limited number of involved hams, it has been a slow recovery. Thankfully, work is moving forward. The first effort included a complete tear down of the station to better understand its working and to rearrange power distributions and computer/equipment interconnections.

As of today, the WL7CVG-10 VHF RMS on 144.91 MHz, 1200 baud packet, is back online due to the work of Bill Sutter, KL5TY. Initial testing indicates it is working ok. We’d ask Winlink users to give it a try.

It ALSO appears that we MAY have the WL7CVG-10 1.25-meter RMS on 223.66 MHz, 9600 baud packet is back as well. The Winlink RMS sysop software is talking to the computer OK, but we do need folks to test on-air performance.

The 70-cm WL7CVG-10 RMS on 441.175 MHz, 9600 baud packet is NOT YET back online. There are a few more interconnections that need to be made.

More to follow soon I hope.

73,

Kent, KL5T

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