May 17, 2009
Ernie says, “Hows Ya’ll doing!”
He has sent us a couple of photos of his current visit to Dayton Hamvention 2009.
Out there working on the door as a volunteer and gathering more D-Star wisdom.
Looks like he’s caught a few rays whilst there too.

- G4LUE at K5TIT stand in Dayton 2009
Here’s a shot of Ernie with Connie KB0ZSG

- D-Star users
How many I.D.s Ernie ? we can see them weighing down the left side of your jacket.
On a more serious note, we all wish you a safe journey home and look forward to hearing about the trip in great detail.
March 5, 2009

The D*UGN northern meeting took place this evening at the three horses shoes in Brierley.
We streamed LIVE to the DUGN/ SYRG website and also provided audio from reflector 5a.
Points raised in the meeting.
The group discussed 23cms allocations and the implications of the rollout of microwave D-STAR in YD land and over the Pennines in to Manchester.
We also discussed our install of a microwave back haul near Barnsley District General Hospital which will be used as a more stable connection and our internet back haul located in Cudworth will be used for redundancy.
We also discussed a 3G mobile network connection to take over operations in an emergency or outage if both back hauls fail.
A good night was had by all. Great to see you there in person and in LIVE chat.