2025-05-10, 08:57:49
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
1. Central Ontario Hamfest
Sponsor: GARC & KWARC
Date: Sunday, June 1
Location: Waterloo Regional Police Association
1128 Rife Rd., North Dumfries, ON
Times: Public 9 am to 12 noon
Indoor vendors 7 am, Tailgate 8 am,
Cost: $8.00, youths under 12 - free
Talk-in: VE3KSR 146.970- PL 131.8
Simplex will be 146.520
Email : info @ hamfest.on.ca
Webpage: https://hamfest.on.ca
--- RAC Events
ITEMS OF INTEREST
2. APRS Foundation Summit postponed to fall.
The APRS Foundation's inaugural education summit, originally scheduled to take place in May, has been postponed until the autumn of this year. The nonprofit group is developing a full day of programming that is geared to both seasoned operators and beginners - anyone interested in using the Automatic Packet
Reporting System.
Registration details will appear on the foundation website at
aprsfoundation.org when they are available.
-- amateur radio newsline
3. HAM2K Portable Logger Receives Software Award
Ham2K Portable Logger has been a mainstay in the field for a growing number of portable operators since its development by Sebastian Delmont, KI2D. The Amateur Radio Software Award committee has chosen to honor the free downloadable logger, citing its "intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and a suite of
convenient features." The software's support of Worldwide Flora & Fauna, Summits on the Air, Parks on the Air and the ARRL Field Day has helped grow its popularity. Details about the logger can be found at polo dot ham2k dot com (polo.ham2K.com). Nov 7th thru 17th the ARSA committee will activate special-event
stations K6A K6R and K6S - to honor this year's winner and to solicit nominees for next year's award. The international award is given for open-source software projects that promote innovation and freedom in amateur radio.
-- amateur radio newsline
4. Meshtastic Publishes Special Firmware for Hamvention 2025
The Meshtastic project has released a special firmware build for users that are attending Hamvention. The dedicated firmware is designed to reduce confusion and instability experienced by users attending Hamvention in 2024. The event firmware includes hardcoded sensible defaults to help ensure mesh stability in the dense environments we see at events like Hamvention. These include: Blocks non-standard port numbers, Disables public MQTT, Caps hop limit at 3, and Forces conservative telemetry/nodeinfo intervals
Additionally, Dayton Hamvention firmware is configured with:
Preset: Short_Turbo (20× bandwidth of LongFast)
Channel 31 — 917.25 MHz
3 default channels: • Hamvention • NodeChat • YardSale
The special Hamvention Meshtastic firmware can be downloaded and installed from the Meshtastic website.
--- Meshtastic https://hamvention.meshtastic.org/
This concludes this week's bulletin. Does anyone require repeats or
clarifications?
Hearing none, This is V_3___ returning the frequency to net control.
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ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
1. Central Ontario Hamfest
Sponsor: GARC & KWARC
Date: Sunday, June 1
Location: Waterloo Regional Police Association
1128 Rife Rd., North Dumfries, ON
Times: Public 9 am to 12 noon
Indoor vendors 7 am, Tailgate 8 am,
Cost: $8.00, youths under 12 - free
Talk-in: VE3KSR 146.970- PL 131.8
Simplex will be 146.520
Email : info @ hamfest.on.ca
Webpage: https://hamfest.on.ca
--- RAC Events
ITEMS OF INTEREST
2. APRS Foundation Summit postponed to fall.
The APRS Foundation's inaugural education summit, originally scheduled to take place in May, has been postponed until the autumn of this year. The nonprofit group is developing a full day of programming that is geared to both seasoned operators and beginners - anyone interested in using the Automatic Packet
Reporting System.
Registration details will appear on the foundation website at
aprsfoundation.org when they are available.
-- amateur radio newsline
3. HAM2K Portable Logger Receives Software Award
Ham2K Portable Logger has been a mainstay in the field for a growing number of portable operators since its development by Sebastian Delmont, KI2D. The Amateur Radio Software Award committee has chosen to honor the free downloadable logger, citing its "intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and a suite of
convenient features." The software's support of Worldwide Flora & Fauna, Summits on the Air, Parks on the Air and the ARRL Field Day has helped grow its popularity. Details about the logger can be found at polo dot ham2k dot com (polo.ham2K.com). Nov 7th thru 17th the ARSA committee will activate special-event
stations K6A K6R and K6S - to honor this year's winner and to solicit nominees for next year's award. The international award is given for open-source software projects that promote innovation and freedom in amateur radio.
-- amateur radio newsline
4. Meshtastic Publishes Special Firmware for Hamvention 2025
The Meshtastic project has released a special firmware build for users that are attending Hamvention. The dedicated firmware is designed to reduce confusion and instability experienced by users attending Hamvention in 2024. The event firmware includes hardcoded sensible defaults to help ensure mesh stability in the dense environments we see at events like Hamvention. These include: Blocks non-standard port numbers, Disables public MQTT, Caps hop limit at 3, and Forces conservative telemetry/nodeinfo intervals
Additionally, Dayton Hamvention firmware is configured with:
Preset: Short_Turbo (20× bandwidth of LongFast)
Channel 31 — 917.25 MHz
3 default channels: • Hamvention • NodeChat • YardSale
The special Hamvention Meshtastic firmware can be downloaded and installed from the Meshtastic website.
--- Meshtastic https://hamvention.meshtastic.org/
This concludes this week's bulletin. Does anyone require repeats or
clarifications?
Hearing none, This is V_3___ returning the frequency to net control.
Bulletin sent from Official Bulletin Manager VA3PC