Sylvain Faust VE2FET

VE2FET
Op: Sylvain Faust QTH: Ste-Anne-Des-Lacs, Québec, Canada Grid: FN25wu CQ Zone: 5 ITU Zone: 4
Processing all QSO with eQSL, ARRL LoTW. QSL cards also available to all received QSL cards

Click Here to see where is VE2FET QTH.
Click Here to see where is VE2FET Mobile HF/VHF/UHF (updated each minute or so while mobile)

Last Online on HF (if time is current, I'm online now, updated each 60 sec.)
Date: 15-May-2008 01:56:55 (local time / Montreal time)
Frequency: 10.102.500 Mode: CW Radio model: IC-7800

APRS

This map is live and shows where I'm (or was) last time when mobile on the APRS network.

Free VE2FET UI-VIEW32 Maps to download here.
Click Here for Live APRS Canadian Network Stations Analysis.
(In French) Voici un document en français avec les instructions comment configurer votre UI-View32 en mode Digipeater WIDEn-n, QCn-n (au Québec) ou en mode "Fill-In" WIDE1-1 ainsi que I-Gate. Cliquer ici.
Click Here for UI-View32 and other Status windows at VE2FET-1 computer updated each minute.
Click Here for VE2FET Live Weather Station.
Click on callsign for Locating: VE2FET-1 (Home) VE2FET-7 (Mobile)
QRZ.COM Database access via APRS
You can get access to QRZ.COM database by simply sending an APRS message to the station named DOQRZ (it's delta oscar...). Put the callsign you want QRZ.COM info in the APRS message. You will receive automatically via APRS the information. You could be mobile, it works, try it. You need to reach an I-Gate with your message if you are not withing RF distance of VE2FET-1 station. For DOQRZ details click this link: DOQRZ Operation Info
VHF Live Propagation indicator using APRS
You can see a list of the stations received and also receiving a specific APRS station including their distance from that specific APRS station. It is updated each minute.
This is a nice live indicator of the VHF condition. See the following links for the digipeaters I manage. Change the URL to specifiy the APRS station that you like.
Click on the callsign below for VHF Live Propagation Report:

*These digipeaters are WIDEn-n, QCn-n. Please do not use RELAY or WIDE anymore . QCn-n means, for example, you can digipeat QC3-3. It does the same as WIDE3-3 but WITHOUT leaving the province of Quebec. Same goes for QC2-2, QC2-1, etc… Please have your digipeater configuration updated to support “State Wide” configuration, i.e. QC if yours is located in the province of Quebec. MOBILE please use an APRS Path of "WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1" and FIXED stations please use "WIDE2-1" or “WIDE2-2” if out of city/far of digipeaters area.

The use of RELAY and WIDE is over. Please read the following page about the new N paradigm. It includes configuration an more: Fixing the 144.39 APRS Network

APRS usefull links:

New to APRS and digipeating? Confused with WIDEn-n etc. Click APRS Paths and Digipeating 101
You're not sure why -3 or -7 or what SSID to use or what it means? APRS SSID Guide is here.
Amateur Radio Stations heard via the International Space Station (ISS)
TOCALL Application number series.
Need to know the latest known location for an APRS station? Get it here using FindU.com. Enter VE2FET-1 for a try.
This site is very interesting. For any APRS station you can see all messages sent and received, all mobile mouvements and much more. This link shows you the info for VE2FET-1 but change the APRS station callsign at the end of the URL or enter it on the page. Use the menu on the left of the page: DB0ANF APRS information database

VE2FET is a Member of:

VE2REH ARAI - http://www.ve2reh.net - Association des Radio Amateurs Indépendants. The VE2REH club as an extensive RF network of "always connected" repeaters across muktiple bands, i.e. 10M, 6M, 2M, 220MHz and 70cm. You need to get on one of the repeaters and you are on them all, all interconnected using RF only, no Internet.. Frequencies short list of VE2REH ARAI Club Repeaters.
RAQI - http://www.raqi.ca - Radio Amateur du Québec Inc.
ARRL - http://www.arrl.org - The American Radio Relay League.
QWCA - http://www.qcwa.org - Quarter Century Wireless Association.
FISTS - http://www.fists.org - The International Morse Preservation Society.

Questions? Comments? Email: ve2fet@arrl.net

About Sylvain Faust VE2FET
First licensed as a Canadian Amateur Radio Operator on July 13, 1977, at the age of 12, Sylvain has been operating under the same callsign ever since. Lionel VE2DTV introduced Sylvain to the Amateur Radio 7 months earlier.

VE2FET was living in Montreal at the time and quickly became a member of the local club VE2UMS. Among his other interests, the one for computers emerged in 1979. Under the early guidance of Pierre, VE2BSI (now VE2ICI), he developed a fascination for programming, by first toying with microprocessor machine code and soon enough, 6502 assembler.

Within a few short years, Sylvain became a world-level specialist in transactional database design and the fine art of transaction performance tuning. He's the creator of the product SQL-Programmer(r) (1992) among others and founder of Sylvain Faust Inc. (1988). (SQL-Programmer(r), SQL-Optimizer(r), SQL-Sombrero(r) are now owned by BMC Software http://www.bmc.com since November 2000).

Sylvain was born in February 1965 in St-Hyacinthe, province of Quebec. He later moved to Montreal at the age of 8. Sylvain has been living in the Ottawa-Gatineau area (west of Montreal) between 1986 and 2007, with the exception of 2 years in Austin, Texas, and is now living in the Ste-Anne-Des-Lacs/St-Sauveur area (FN25wu) just north of Montreal.

Among his current "Amateur Radio" equipment, his shelves support top of the line ICOM IC-7800, IC-7000, IC-PW1, IC-703+, TH-D7, TH-F6, IC-V8000, IC-02AT, MFJ-259B, MFJ-989D, MFJ-904H, KPC-3 Plus, etc... No more Marconi 52 (52, first receiver for Sylvain where he praticed decoding CW few months before going for his license exam in 1977), 19 Mk III, Heathkit HW-16, Heathkit DX-60, Johnson Viking Mk1, or Teletype (RTTY) Model 19,28,33 and many more...

Sylvain is also http://www.eQSL.cc Certified and ARRL/LoTW Certified and uses incoming/outgoing Quebec QSL Bureau as well. He replies Direct to all QSL received Direct.

Canadian Special Prefix info http://www.indicatif.ca

Sylvain also operates a wide APRS digipeater as VE2FET-1 from his QTH, supporting the most recent WIDEn-n, QCn-n protocol. He also manages the configuration for the following digipeaters, VA2REH-3, VE2REG-3 and VE2REH-3.

Do not hesitate to send email if you have questions. ve2fet@arrl.net

PS: Please register to http://www.eQSL.cc (it’s FREE!) and also the ARRL LoTW (Logbook Of The World). Just more ways to get different awards in addition to real QSL cards. I do them all.

73! Sylvain VE2FET (ve2fet@arrl.net )