We have our first egg in the peregrine falcon nest that is atop of the McLaren Flint building. You can watch the live stream here: https://w8cmn.net/nest/
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ARTEMIS II Loop Audio on Network
With the return to human spaceflight to the moon, some noticed we had the ARTEMIS II launch audio on our VHF network last evening. We will continue to push the significant mission milestones loop audio to the Mi2 VHF Hub, Launch, Splashdown, Lunar Flyby, and Return. Our 145.190- 151.4 Repeater in Flint will carry all …
The Site Was Quiet—We Weren’t – Back to Posting in 2026
Over the past three years, things have been anything but quiet here at CMN. While our website may have seemed still, behind the scenes we’ve been busy working on many different parts of the network—upgrades, maintenance, and ongoing improvements to keep everything running smoothly. During that time, our editor was also in the middle of …
Mi7 Network Update – 2023-07
Update on changes we have done to our Mi7 network. First up our chat services. Instead of having BPQCHAT instances on each node then linking each of those BPQ chats we have moved to a single Chat instance in the east datacenter. So when you connect to any of the 30+ Mi7 nodes and type …
Joining East and West Took Years, and Teamwork – W8CMN Mi6 Network Backbone Spanning Central Michigan – SEOC Connected
We have had a busy start to the first part of May here at W8CMN. We know John, WB8RCR SK is smiling down on all the hard work accomplished the past week. We have brought 55 miles of 10Ghz microwave online going from our site west of Lansing to the State EOC in Diamondale through …
2023 Q1 W8CMN Network Update
While it may have been a while since we have posted what we have been up to at W8CMN we haven’t been relaxing or hibernating. Let this post be the “First Quarter 2023” W8CMN Network report. It will cover items related to our grant project and unrelated to the grant. Nothing will be in a …
New Mi5 Site Pinconning Online
Happy New Year from all of us here at W8CMN, but we just couldn’t let the year end without a bang so Jeff and Paul went on Saturday, December 31st to install the new Mi5 Pinconning DMR repeater at our new site. The repeater is on 444.6250+ or the same pair as our BYN repeater. …
Christmas came early with new Mi5 and Mi6 sites online – 2022-12-12
It was cold and snowy this past Saturday with Sunday being just plain cold but the teams assembled and accomplished a lot. Saturday we all gathered at the new Midland tower site which is just southwest of the city of Midland. When the crews had finished for the day they installed three x 2’ Dishes, …
2022 November/October Project Update
Apologies for the lack of posting the past few weeks but we haven’t been idle. Going to give a post here on the items that we have completed at a number of existing and new sites on the network. The snow and cold haven’t stopped us, but weather delays have already hampered some plans a …
New Lansing Site Online – Lansing Work Party 2022-10-08
We are announcing that we have brought a new site online in the Lansing area. Lansing Collins is located on top of the new McLaren Greater Lansing campus building. The site currently has 5.9Ghz PtMP Sectors and 2.397ghz PtMP Omni online for client radios to connect to. This site is also serving as a hub …