November 18, 2002

We recently installed NOSaprs 1.15b2 in both our JNOS systems. At gw.kf9ug we changed our operating frequency to 144.39Mhz for APRS. We are outputting the entire APRS worldwide feed on 445.125Mhz on leogate.kf9ug. Click on the links to see where our two systems are located:

leogate.kf9ug.ampr.org, gw.kf9ug.ampr.org

February 22, 2003

A new 2m port has been added to gw.kf9ug.ampr.org. It is on 145.53Mhz and it provides direct forwarding to/from WA1URA and KA9LCF. Both these stations are located in NE Indiana and are backup links to our wide area 220Mhz and 2 Meter backbone links.

December 24, 2002

Our main BBS system has a generator backup power source for emergency operations. We have at least 12 hours of backup AC power and an additional 24 hours of battery backup power in preperation for a major disastor. With additional gasoline, we are capable of running 24/7. We are working on plans to implement multiple, reduntant forwarding paths to cope with worst case senerios.

November 10, 2002

Our 2.4Ghz 802.11b system is installed and operating at gw.kf9ug

October 31, 2002

Today we finished installation of a tower for the gw.kf9ug.ampr.org system located north of Leo and Grabill, Indiana.

The 2M port on 145.01Mhz is now at an elevation of 52 feet above ground level using a 5 element beam pointed SSW towards Fort Wayne, Indiana with a power output of 25/50watts. And the 1.25M port on 223.66Mhz is now at an elevation of 55 feet above ground level using a 1/4wave ground plane with a power output of 10 watts.

We are awaiting the shipment of needed cables to finish the installation of our new 2.4Ghz 802.11b system. When completed, we will be connecting our 19dbi reflector dish at an elevation of 50 feet to our D-Link 713P access point. The disk is attached to an inexpensive rotor so we can beam our signal around to anybody requesting or needing our services. If all goes well we will expand this system to support additional users.

October 24, 2002

We are working on finishing installation of a 47 foot tower at our gw.kf9ug.ampr.org system to better serve NE Allen County, Indiana.

In addition we are going to implement a 2.4Ghz 802.11b wireless network on our new tower. We are planning on using this new addition for a for-profit non-amateur radio use to provide broadband access to homes within line of sight (LOS) of our tower. Since the 2.4Ghz band is a shared band with amateur radio we plan on offering this service to amateur radio operators per Part 95 of the FCC rules too however due to the LOS limitations of the 2.4Ghz band we do expect many hams to be able to use this mode.

October 10, 2002

I just replaced my original 2m rig (a GE Master II) with an ADI-146 rig as the original Master II developed a hearing problem. The new rig seems to work MUCH better than the GE Master II ever did!

September 5, 2002

Due to the extreme number of SPAM e-mails being received at FWARig for users of FWARig, internet e-mail received at FWARig addressed to <your-callsign>@bbs.fwarig.org will be rejected. Instead if you want to receive Internet e-mail at FWARig, you should have it addressed to <your-callsign>@fwarig.org.

August 30, 2002

The commercial IP address for leogate.kf9ug.ampr.org has been changed to 64.255.99.17.

A 145.01Mhz port has been added back to gw.kf9ug.ampr.org which is now located north of Grabill and Leo. This port uses a 5 element YAGI pointed back towards Fort Wayne. Output power is 80W with an effective radiated power of 800W.



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