IRLP designer Dave Cameron, VE7LTD signed on East Coast Reflector 921 on October 18, 2001.  This celebrated IRLP's 200th node install. It's Red Hat Linux-based server resides at the offices of Sungard in Research Triangle Park.  Jack Thorpe, WA0ERX is the Reflector 921 node administrator and is responsible for helping us secure the server and bandwidth at Sungard, formerly Inflow. IRLP nodes that want to use Ref921 should follow these guidelines. You can see who is connected to Ref921 here.

Initial tests conducted October 18th revealed excellent throughput performance, with 15 international nodes connecting simultaneously, using only 500-600k of bandwidth out of our potential 4 meg allocation. Because of its overnight success, we  carried traffic internationally with Boy Scout Jamboree over the air (JOTA) special event on Ref. 921 for the weekend of 10/20/01.  The bandwidth capability of the East Coast Reflector is much like that of Reflector 2 in Denver.   

Contact with McMurdo Science Station in Antarctica was made using Ref921 when a documentary recording was made for Amateur Radio Newsline.   It then was used to carry the Chapel Hill ISS contact live over IRLP network.  38 nodes internationally were connected to Ref921 to listen as the children made contact to the Space Station.

In January of 2002, Nodes from Atlanta, Columbia, Greenville, Kinston, as well as linked repeaters using IRLP in Virginia and Maryland tracked the first winter storm of the season, all using Reflector 921.

At present, Raleigh hams may find node 4260 (our 146.775 MHz Raleigh repeater) and/or node 4270 (our UHF regional link system) connected to Reflector 921 to monitor its activity.  Feel free to carry on conversations with other connected IRLP nodes. 

Node Operators, please feel free to contact us to coordinate Special Events usage of Reflector 921.  Please direct questions and comments to us via email at  .