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About Adrian

Clay County EC.

First Annual Northern Florida Section Hurricane Exercise

Beginning 0800 on Saturday, 3 August 2019, all Florida county Emergency Operating Centers (EOC’s) will take part in an exercise.

The exercise will involve communicating between each county to the State EOC in Tallahassee. Only personnel operating from their respective county EOC’s may participate.

Digital messages will be sent to the state EOC by voice and digital modes. HF SSB messages will be sent as follows:

80 Meters: 3.950 MHz @0900 on the morning NFL ARES net.

60 meters: 5.3715 MHz 0800-0830

40 meters: 7.242 MHz 0830-0900

A special message will be sent requesting a 50-amp power supply on 3.955 MHz sometime between 0800-1000.

SARNet check-ins will be taken starting 0900.

Special voice and digital tests will take place at 1400 and 1700 hours on 3.950 MHz. Digital stations will use WinLink/Winmor.

All ARES members are encouraged to listen in on the nets and provide signal strength reports to K4AWG by e-mail or at the next ARES meeting on 6 August 2019.

Sending Packet P2P in WinLink

A lot of people have been having an issue sending Packet Peer-to-Peer (P2P) using WinLink. The main cause of this appears to be unfamiliarity with the software package (including yours truly).

When sending Packet P2P in WinLink, don’t forget to save the message as “Peer-to-Peer”. To do this, look for the pull-down menu in the top middle of the Message Screen, and select it, then Post to Outbox. You can save it in that format as well if you wish to send it later, or by using a timed connection.

When you run Packet P2P, the message will auto-send without any action on your part. It may take a while, but it will eventually disconnect.

WinLink has three separate message types in the drop-down list: WinLink Message, Radio Only Message, and Peer-to-Peer Message.  WinLink naturally defaults to “WinLink Message” as its preferred type, so if you don’t change the selection, Peer-to-Peer will connect but not forward the message.

Thanks to Ray Cook, WD4SEN, for his sage advice.

73,
Adrian
K4AWG

Hurricane Irma Support

To all:

Thanks to all who responded in support of ARES operations in Clay County. A special thanks to all the new operators.

As you are aware, the event isn’t completely over, as flooding remains a problem and some shelters are still open. We may need to support for a few more days.

One of our operators, KC4JES, is dealing with the flood. Our thoughts are with him. We are always ready to help, so if he requests it, please do your best.

Again, thanks for supporting your county!

Adrian Gray, K4AWG
EC, Clay County ARES

Monthly Participation Reports

To members who report SKYWARN hours:
Please do not add them to the three criteria on the web site hours form. Separate the emergency and non-emergency hours and show each on the Comments section of the form. North Florida ARES wants us to report these hours separately from now on.

Thanks to everyone who reports their hours!

Adrian

March Clay County ARES Meeting

This month’s Clay County ARES meeting will be in the Clay County Emergency Operations Center at the Clay County Fairgrounds in Green Cove Springs. Take Hwy 17 south to Green Cove and turn right on Ferris (Hwy 16) and head toward Penny Farms. Turn left at the Fairgrounds main entrance. The EOC will be the last building on your right.