Our guest speakers for the March meeting were Tedd VE3TJD and Terry VE3NSV.

Tedd gave an informative talk on EchoLink including several live demonstrations. Tedd had all of the members who had never been on EchoLink gather around so they could see the PC screen as he made several contacts both via the PC and via radio via the VE3SED UHF repeater at Baden.

Following Tedd was Terry who gave a talk and demo of the new features on the clubs IRLP repeater VE3RBM. In both cases we used former club member Walt Gibbons VE4OO from Brandon MB as our demo station.

As you can see by the photo above there was a lot of interest. We were hoping to have an overhead projector to better display the PC screens however technical glitches prevented this from happening.

Terry VE3NSV (standing) and Bill VE3WFR demo some of the new IRLP features

Show Me The Money!

Drew VE3AOR shows off his 50/50 draw winnings

Bill VE3WFR in EchoLink contact with Walt VE4OO (ex VE3ERX ex WA2FVR/VE3) now living in Brandon Manitoba

Terry demonstrated the IRLP lookup feature that allows anyone with a TouchTone pad to spell out a city name and have the node information for that location read back to the caller.

As well, the automated text to voice weather script was demonstrated. With the entry of a 4 digit code, real time weather from any of 14 Ontario centres can be read back. At the top and bottom of each hour VE3RBM will notify listeners if any severe weather warnings are in effect telling the listeners what to do for more information.

Our guest speakers Terry Green VE3NSV (L) and Tedd Doda VE3TJD (R) were thanked by Club program Director Bill VE3WFR and presented with certificates of appreciation.


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