[Fourlanders] N1MM update

[Anna McCarthy]

All,

The Atlanta Area BSA is creating a radio club and a station out of their
Bert Adams camp site in Covington, GA .  It's still in it's infancy, and
I'm being asked by N1MN to be more active with this program in the BSA.  I
will need assistance once there is something in place, so this will be
great exposure to us and hams in the area,

88s,
Anna

On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 3:14 PM, Bob Lear <w4zst at windstream.net> wrote:

> Progress to date:  After the 2m EME antenna workday last Tuesday, Johnny
> suggested he and I spend some time on N1MM after we had lunch and confirmed
> that the 2m antennas were back tracking and the station operative.  Of
> course, this was for Bouvet, but unfortunately that is off the table for
> now.
>
> The 222 contest station was still completely set up from the contest.  I
> connected the 2m computer to my 897 with a CAT cable to fake a 2m station.
> We put the FT-2000 on the 6m computer.  Remember Johnny has some experience
> with N1MM and I've never really looked at it.  Within a pretty short time,
> we had the three computers networking together, showing the common log,
> gab, etc.  It turned out to be pretty easy.  We just designated one of them
> to be the 'master' as N1MM does not require a server.  Seemed pretty
> straightforward.  We also quickly got the 222 station interfaced using our
> usual interface cables and properly doing PTT and calling CQ on CW.  We did
> not attempt to work on the audio paths.  Probably spent about two hours
> total that day.
>
> Johnny came up again on Saturday and we worked a couple more hours with
> the 6m station and got it working with CW and Phone, recorded messages,
> proper PTT, etc.  The settings ended up being exactly the same as we were
> used to with WL, using my same interface and cable.   We did have some
> problems getting all the right configuration settings, but in the end it
> came back to what we were used to.  Maybe all logging programs 'test' us on
> setting up!
>
> So things look pretty good to me as far as making a jump to N1MM. Bill's
> suggestion of getting some of us together to hook up 4 stations in a fake
> contest environment and log Q's, call CQ, fake calling real stations, gab,
> etc. is certainly something that we should do, just as we did that with WL
> and recently with the new computers.   From the response to my first post
> about possibly doing this, no one was against it.  Now we just need to
> proceed with testing but it looks like it going to be a good change for
> us.  I'd say the only thing I didn't like so far was the QSO entry box set
> up.  I suspect it is an editable thing or something we could ask N1MM to
> address but not a deal breaker by any means.
>
> Again, I suggest you download your free copy, connect to your own radio
> and see what it's like.
>
> 73, Bob  off to Orlando tomorrow for a week of FL sunshine and it better
> be there!!
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Annalee Leynes McCarthy
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