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A new Telpac gatway for Winlink has been brought up in NW Ohio for both general and EmComm use.

It is on the UHF band at 445.700 with a call sign of N1ICS-11. It's brother is a VHF gatway at 145.690 with a call sign of N1ICS-10.

Both of these feed into the N1ICS PMBO which gateways into the gloabal Winlink 2000 network.

Feel free to use them and if you experience any issues, contact me at the contact info listed at QRZ.com.

A download section has been added to N1ICS.net. On it you will find odds and ends of software, configurations and other information which may be useful.

Enjoy!

You can now read N1ICS.net on your mobile phone. Just use the location www.n1ics.mobi for a mobile version formatted for a cell phone. It's all transparent and you get the same content, just formatted for better viewing.

For the second time in two weeks, 75 meter propagation problems have
caused the Ohio Single Side Band Net (OSSBN) to change its evening
start and this time also change frequency.

Beginning Tuesday, November 13, the third and evening daily session of
the OSSBN will be at 6 p.m. Eastern Time and on the OSSBN alternate
frequency of 3.968 MHz.

Time changes last week resulted in possible interference with
Connecticut traffic nets.

Ohio Assistant Section Manager and OSSBN Net Manager Connie Hamilton,
N8IO, thanks everyone for their patience in these matters. The new

A feed which does server-side filtering to limit APRS stations to the approximate boundaries of Allen County (OH) has been added to aprs.n1ics.net. It can be found on port 14582.

As demand warrants, other counties may be added.

A feed which does server-side filtering to limit APRS stations to the approximate boundaries of Van Wert County has been added to aprs.n1ics.net. It can be found on port 14581.

As demand warrants, other counties may be added.

Shown below is the current status of aprs.n1ics.net.

Feeds are available as follows:

TCP port 10152:	Full feed (unfiltered)
TCP port 14580:	Full feed (user specified filters)
TCP port 14581:	Van Wert County feed (user specified filters)
TCP port 14582:	Allen County (OH) feed (user specified filters)
TCP port 1314:	Message only feed

javAPRSSrvr 3.14b06 Copyright © 2009 ‑ Pete Loveall AE5PL 8 Sep 2010 09:21:58 GMT Server ID N1ICS-JS Sys Op Eric Germann N1ICS - n1ics@n1ics.net OS FreeBSD JVM Sun Microsystems Inc. 1.5.0 class.zip: 49.0 Total Up Time 34d07h10m56.962s   TCP Bytes In 8,100,243,550 UDP Bytes In 0 Total Bytes In 8,100,243,550 Average bps In 21,867 TCP Bytes Out 1,041,243,760 UDP Bytes Out 0 Total Bytes Out 1,041,243,760 Average bps Out 2,810   Total Valid Packets 90,845,195 Total Duplicate Packets 45,020 Total Rejected Packets 66,084 Total Looped Packets 0 Total Packets Processed 90,956,299   Total 3rd Party Packets 1,099 Total NOGATE Packets 0 Total Server Message Packets 0 Generic Queries Blocked 0 Generic Queries Passed 39 Total OpenTrac Packets 0   Total Inbound Connects 66,197 Total Inbound Disconnects 66,192 Peak Inbound Connections 6 Maximum Inbound Connections 200 Current Inbound Connections 5 Current Outbound Connections 1   Receive Queue Depth (ms) 0 Server Adjunct javAPRSFilter 3.1b02 © 2004-2007 - Roger Bille SM5NRK Packets preprocessed 90,845,195 Packets passed 11,174,261 Packets excluded 0 Stored Position packets 63,108 Stored Positionless Weather packets 527 Stored Igate's 3,162 Outbound Connections Server q Addr Verified Software Connected Packets Rcvd Packets Sent Bytes Rcvd Bytes Sent Rcv bps Send bps Last Packet In Looped Packets Queue Depth(ms) first.aprs.net/165.91.140.28:10152 A55B8C1C Yes javAPRSSrvr 3.14b04 03h55m53.626s 437,985 780 39,342,638 71,605 22,238 40 00.041s 0 0 Available Ports Port Number Description 10152 Full APRS-IS Feed 14580 User-defined Filtered Feed 1314 Message-only Feed 14581 Van Wert County Feed 14582 Allen County (OH) Feed Inbound Connections Port Client Callsign Verified Software SA Setting Connected Packets Rcvd Packets Sent Bytes Rcvd Bytes Sent Rcv bps Send bps Last Packet In Looped Packets Queue Depth(ms) 14580 127.0.0.1:49161 N1ICS‑JS No javAPRSSrvr 3.14b06 r/40.8515/‑84.48033/320 34d07h10m36.111s 0 3,798,193 82 341,226,047 0 921 34d07h10m36.097s 0 0 14580 172.28.10.40:50104 N1ICS‑XB Yes XASTIR 1.9.6 r/40.8515/‑84.48033/320 34d07h09m35.969s 0 3,797,824 75 341,197,981 0 921 34d07h09m35.453s 0 0 14580 172.28.0.200:50299 N1ICS‑XA Yes XASTIR 1.9.8 r/40.8515/‑84.48033/320 28d06h37m20.093s 0 3,164,122 75 283,784,591 0 929 28d06h37m19.600s 0 0 14580 172.28.10.20:1039 N1ICS‑2 Yes UI‑View32 V2.03 a/40.9885/‑84.4833/40.4845/‑84.3325 27d01h57m43.143s 97,841 67,541 8,778,307 13,053,454 30 44 34.474s 0 0 14580 172.28.10.19:1038 N1ICS‑1 Yes UI‑View32 V2.03 r/40.8515/‑84.48033/80 23d23h38m35.386s 9,996 245,444 742,615 23,921,801 2 92 08m19.011s 0 0