Ham radio at its best:

Sunday 7/21/02 Dedicated hams from the 64 repeater gathered together at the k1ugm packet site in Wakefield to join their expertise (in repeater controllers, cavities, antennas, audio circuits, computer hardware & software, internet cable modems & switches) to begin connecting a 2-meter repeater to the internet for users to network with other repeaters around the world with similar connections. The photo collage of the team was taken in the k1ugm packet repeater "cellar". The team found themselves surrounded by ghosts of the past; 19th century scientific apparatus including tangent galvanometers, spark gap transmitters, coherer & crystal detectors. Blended into these tools were the 20th century technologies; 2 meter & 220 MHz repeaters, packet radio bulletin boards & packet nodes, vacuum tube oscilloscopes & transistor ampfliers, IC chips & Ethernet high-speed data lines. The team itself had the same generational age spread as the equipment; children, parents, and grandparents ranging from 3 to 75 years. Within this collage of people and tools, the goal is to help bring Ham radio into the 21st century enabling ham radio to continue to serve the community with public assistance during emergencies, and to help develop communication technologies for this purpose. Sooooo to keep track of the project, tune in to the WARC repeaters as the team upgrades the antenna and tunes up the equipment at the 147.075 site. This will involve adding computer hard ware and software and working out the details of the project including how and when to use the link to the Internet. last but not least We all owe alot of thanks to the trustee WA1RHN for being supportive of this project. Jim & Rhoda k1ugm & n1csi