W3MRC - AUSKA - AUSRLY-1

Before 2019, W3MRC had a Digipeater and NODE to help cover Travis and Williamson Counties for the the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) in the NW Austin area.  Connecting to W3MRC would automatically send you to W3MRC-1 the PBBS. (CMSG was set to PBBS)

CALL - W3MRC
PBBS - W3MRC-1
ALIAS - AUSRLY-1
NODE - AUSKA
BEACON - Once per Hour (60 Minutes)

Collinear antenna ~ 1200 feet elevation 180 feet above ground

TCARES Packet radio check-ins were done every Sunday evening at 8:00 PM on the TCARES frequency 145.730 MHz. in the unproto mode.
Everyone had their UNPROTO command set to "yourname via AUSRLY-1" so everyone would see your packets.

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AEA PK-900 Manual pdf 4MB

W3MRC 3M Amateur Radio Club of Austin Texas
Last up-dated June, 2022