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Amateur Radio Station

N3GHE.

QTH:

Latitude is 38.5081 N (38° 30' 29" N)
Longitude is 77.3739 W (77° 22' 26" W)
Grid square: FM18hm
Location is 34.0 mi (54.7 km) from NORTH edge of grid square, 33.8 mi (54.4 km) from WEST edge of grid square.
 Source:
Geographical coordinates from GPS
Grid Square calculated by: http://www.arrl.org/locate/grid.html

I am the Stafford County Virginia IP address coordinator for the AMPRNET. AMPRNET is the Amateur Radio version of the internet, and it uses TCP/IP computer communications over the radio, much as your computer does over the DSL, Cable, or POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) line. Most hams have migrated to the Internet, but there's a few somewhere that still like TCP/IP packet radio. Although I'm not using TCP/IP now, I'm planning to get back up and running soon. First I'll have to repair one rig to dedicate to packet, then I have to get Tnos, (the Tampa Network Operating System,) running on my Linux computer again.

If you are in Stafford County Virginia, and want an IP address for your Nos, just look me up in the CB, and drop by for a visit. Once I know you're serious I'll "dust off" the old records, and issue you an address.

Currently issued IP addresses for Stafford County Virginia:
IP Address FQDN Alias
44.62.198.1 n3ghe.ampr.org n3ghe
44.62.198.5 behne.ampr.org behne
44.62.198.200 ka1lm.ampr.org ka1lm

Known AMPR hosts.
The Gateways Home Page
G0SVN AMPRNET/INTERNET GATEWAY, WORMHOLE & WEB LIST

My equipment:

Rigs

My rigs.

High Frequency

Yaesu FT-857d
Yaesu FT-857d

2 meter & 70 Centimeter dual-band radios:

Kenwood TM-D700A
Kenwood TM-D700A

Kenwood TM-701A
Kenwood TM-701A

Data

Garmin eTrex handheld GPS
Garmin eTrex handheld GPS

This GPS attaches to the Kenwood TM-D700A (above) or the Kenwood TH-D7 (below) Enabling those radios to transmit location information in real time. The system is called APRS: Automatic Position Reporting System. (See http://www.aprs.net and http://findu.com.)

Handi-Talkies

Amateur Radio Operators call these hand-held radios "Handi-Talkies", or just `HT' for short. Only a CB* user would call them a "walkie-talkie"!

Kenwood TH-D7
Kenwood TH-D7 Icom IC-2GAT
Icom IC-2GAT
Footnote: According to the government, the letters `CB' stand for `Citizen's Band', but based on the behaviour of its users, a better description would be either `Children's Band' or `Clown Band'.

Scanners

Icom IC-R3
Icom IC-R3

Radio Shack PRO-2004
Radio Shack PRO-2004 - heavily modified (dead set - need help repairing.)

Terminal Node Controllers

Terminal Node Controllers (TNC)

My elderly AEA PK-232 MBX multi-mode data controller.
My elderly AEA PK-232 MBX multi-mode data controller.




73's & 88's!







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