GAARES-P2P NET SUMMARY FOR 2024-10-27
Thanks to those stations who checked into the GAARES-P2P Net today!
Total Check-in callsigns: 35 (including NCS ND1J)
Total Messages: 52 (44 of 52 were correctly addressed to GAARES-P2P)
Total 80m messages: 22
Total 40m messages: 30
SUMMARY:
Very good day with the new net callsign WG4PTP. A few members discovered that it’s easy to put “PTP” where “P2P” is supposed to go and vice versa! Also, a few stations initially called the old callsign and obviously got no response.
MAPPING: 80m Session – 22 msgs:
MAPPING: 40m Session – 30 msgs:
Fun Question of the Week:
A single Peer-to-Peer message can be addressed to:
A. Several callsigns
B. A single email address
C. A callsign and a tactical address
D. A single callsign or tactical address
ANSWER: D – A single Peer-to-Peer message can be addressed to a single callsign or a tactical address.
EXPLANATION:
We can address a regular Winlink message to multiple addresses. This can be a combination of callsigns, tactical callsigns and email addresses. However, with a P2P message, there can be only one addressee and it must be either a callsign or a tactical callsign. You cannot address a P2P message to an email address. You cannot copy a second station in a P2P message, either. So if you have a P2P message and you want it to go to, let’s say, 5 different callsigns, there will need to be a separate message for each of them.
When we click on the “New message” button, the “Enter a new message” box opens up. There, we draft the message and post it to the outbox. If we make this a Peer-to-Peer message to more than one callsign and “Post” to outbox, separate messages will be created, one to each addressee. Each message is stand-alone and has its own discrete Message ID.
COMMON ERRORS TODAY:
- 8 messages were addressed to WG4PTP instead of the tactical address GAARES-P2P
- A couple stations interfered by calling WG4PTP when someone else was already connected. Listen audibly on the speaker and look at the waterfall on the Vara TNC screen before initiating a call
- A couple stations called and called even though NCS was not answering them. In P2P, the station answers right away so after you call 3 or 4 times with no response, click abort and figure out what the problem is. It’s normally one of four things:
- Either the callsign is typed wrong in the session window WG4PTP;
- Not in 500Hz Vara bandwidth;
- Have a Vara HF WINLINK session open instead of a Vara HF Peer-to-Peer Session;
- Wrong center frequency set in the session window / or the rig is not tuned to the correct Dial Frequency.
As always, this net wants to hear your comments, questions, recommendations, and complaints!
Please contact me at [email protected] . Anyone interested in becoming one of our Net Control Station Operators should contact me at the same email address. I will be happy to explain what’s involved and if you are still interested, the training is free!
73,
David Blubaugh – ND1J
GAARES-P2P Net Manager