Utah Traffic Net Recordings
Efforts to automate the W7YV shack operations are continuing. The latest addition to the shack is the automatic recording of several traffics nets that are routinely visited here at W7YV. These recordings my be of general interest but, more importantly, may be of use to those taking traffic on these nets as a means to verify what they thought they copied. Using a computer running Ubuntu Linux, a "cron job" has been setup to start an "arecord" session at the times of various traffic nets. This is an experiment and might go away. If it does, well, fine then. Until that happens, check out this link: http://63.226.66.243:8080/nets . At present, files are kept for one week. This link is shown at the top of the HF Nets section on the right side of this blog. Implementation The setup here at W7YV includes a PC running Linux Ubuntu 11.10. The PC is interfaced to an ICOM IC-756PRO. At present, the process is mostly manual in that the operator has to be present...