Bilan direct vhf voice exercise on 230918 using 144.550 MHZ

The exercise has been a complete success with the following stations taking part .
FO,DU,FV,GZ,BAN,BAL.

On 290918 further tests were done with CW and DM .

A spreadsheet with details of the exercise has been circulated together with terrain maps showing all links have been circulated to all via mail.

Further tests will be carried out in the coming days and we shall all put our heads together to analyse the data and find solutions for the areas that have not been covered and for difficult areas.

EMERGENCY READY TO GO KIT?

What is a READY TO GO KIT?

• A Ready To Go Kit is a pre-staged collection of equipment and personal gear&stuff that we will need to perform our duties as an Emergency Communicator effectively and efficiently in the event of a call-out.

• Our Ready To Go Kit should be tailored to our needs, our equipment, expected assignments, and expected length of assignments.

Why we need a Ready To Go Kit

Some reasons we need a Ready To Go Kit :

• In the event of a major disaster, our assignment location will probably be without power, heat, water, food ,personal hygiene stuff, medical stuff and telephone service. Most businesses in the area will probably not be open, due to the emergency.

• As an Emergency Communicator, we must provide our own equipment,gear,food and personal hygiene and medical stuff.

• We are responsible for our own safety, and we must provide for our own welfare and comfort.

Building our Ready To Go Kit now ensures:

• The items we need are available when we need them.

• The items we need are where we expect them to be.

When the Activation Call comes, we won’t have time to hunt for things!

Hurricane Florence and Ham Emergency Communications

Interesting links related to the above..

https://www.facebook.com/W7FLO

http://qrznow.com/hurricane-watch-net-florence-and-isaac/

http://www.wthitv.com/content/news/Ham-radio-operators-assist-with-Hurricane-Florence-communications-493335431.html

https://fox61.com/2018/09/12/ham-radio-operators-amplify-messages-in-face-of-hurricane-florence/

VHF file transfer using MT63-2KL and acoustic radio/computer coupling.

3B8FO did a file transfer successfully on VHF 144.550Mhz using radio/computer acoustic coupling and MT63-2KL data protocol.

AREG first EMCOM exercise.

First areg emcom exercise is  scheduled on the 23/09/18 as from 0600 UTC.

The main aim of this first exercise is to gauge  reachability of each station from each other to do a mapping  of VHF direct p2p links and to see where we have communication holes and remedy accordingly.

This test is being done under the assumption that the VHF relay network has failed.

New FT8Call version

A new version has been released and can be downloaded from

http://ft8call.info/

Let us enjoy this new version and if possible take part in the competition.

DMR working

3B8FO received his DMR Radioddity GD-77 HTs yesterday.

He has been able to work analogue FM with them.

He is now working on their  DiGiTAL  settings/configurations.

It will most probably be integrated in our emcom toolbox.


Some sources  on DMR working/technology are given below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZawJek5z9c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t-cyOQbGxc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaDw5pTjWvk

http://hamsci.org/sites/default/files/publications/2018_HamSCI/20180224_170_HamSCI2018_Chen_K2TRW_DMR.pdf

http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/dv/dmr/Introduction%20to%20Digital%20Mobile%20Radio.pdf

http://trbo.org/docs/Amateur_Radio_Guide_to_DMR.pdf