Nets – WTØF: With The Øther Foot

Winlink Forms

hickey — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 02:32:35 +0000

One of the minor projects that I have been working on for a while now is to produce a Winlink form template for the weekly Winlink net. I have the first version of the forms completed and they are ready for download. You can find a description of what Winlink forms are and the download … Continue reading

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SnoVARC Mini-Exercise, Part 2

hickey — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 06:20:00 +0000

This is the second part of a post about the SnoVARC mini-exercise held on 24-FEB-2021. This time I will attempt to stay on the original topic that started the post. In the previous post I went into a bunch of things that are generally good practices during EMCOMM nets. A bunch of good information and … Continue reading

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SnoVARC Mini Exercise

hickey — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:40:00 +0000

This past Thursday evening the Snoqualmie Valley ARC (SnoVARC) held another one of their mini exercises. The mini exercises are held once a month on the third Thursday of the month and attempt to provide teaching opportunities for emergency communications. With the snow that hit Seattle this past weekend–yours truly received 8.6″ of snow which … Continue reading

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Net Schedules

hickey — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:06:00 +0000

Something I have been working on for quite a while now is a easy to manage list of Ham radio nets. Now I am ready to reveal to the world the work that I have been doing and allow people to start to consume it. TLDR; The nets are organized as a set of YAML … Continue reading

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Weekly Winlink Net

hickey — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 20:34:27 +0000

I have been thinking for several weeks of starting a Winlink net to get more involvement in the local ARES/RACES group. Starting for the new year I sent the following to the group. The response has been good and with any luck it will be a success. I am wondering if doing the net every … Continue reading

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