No, I don't have skype, I have ventrillo running on my own box here 
which is a private chat thing and I think up to six peoplle can connect.
  I'll hae to dig out a microphone and set some of you up to log in.
73
Butch
WA0VJR

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Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Pam Walters wrote:

> This is so interesting.  You and John sound like interesting people to talk
> too.  Do you have skype?  Pam
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 11:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Managing a repeater
>
>
>> I have a kenwood 820 on uhf and considering the 850.  I put up one of
>> those for our club in Las Vegas a year or so ago.  A little of the
>> programming software is accessible, but I find much of it is not.  I'm
>> fortunate in that I use to do commercial stuff so I have a service monitor
>> and I can tune my duplexers.  I control the ifr 1200 with a program I
>> wrote in basic and then compiled.  I can recall memories, take meter
>> readings every so many seconds and so forth with this little program.  Of
>> corse the ifr makes it easy to tune up the machine, check receiver and so
>> forth.
>> 73
>> Butch
>> WA0VJR
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