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US Army and Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio Service (MARS) stations will participate in a 48-hour nationwide contingency communication exercise on October 27 and 28 as part of an effort to develop greater cooperation between the Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored MARS program and the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES). MARS is encouraging its members to discuss communication interoperability in advance of the exercise with their ARES section and district or local emergency coordinators. |
Author Archives: KK4ECR
Clay County ARES Badges
Clay County ARES is very close to printing and issuing badges to our members. Here is the presentation that was covered at our monthly Clay ARES meeting last night. Continue reading
Actor Tim Allen Gets His Ham Ticket For Real
09/30/2014 – Taken from ARRL website
Actor and comedian Tim Allen now not only plays an Amateur Radio operator on television, he is one! Allen got his Technician license on September 4, but did not release the news until this week. In his weekly ABC comedy TV show “Last Man Standing,” Allen’s character Mike Baxter, is supposed to be KA0XTT, and the show has featured ham radio in some episodes. Continue reading
How to work the ISS on APRS Packet Radio
JoAnne Maenpaa K9JKM wrote this article on how to use the 145.825 MHz FM Packet Radio Digipeater on the International Space Station (ISS) http://www.ariss.org/uploads/1/9/6/8/19681527/k9jkm_2012_symposium_ver2.pdf
Mineo Wakita JE9PEL has produced an Easy Guide to UI-View32 and UISS http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ui32uiss.htm Continue reading
Tropical Storm Bertha – Minimal Local Impacts Expected
This update from the National Weather Service Office in Jacksonville.
Synopsis
As we head into the weekend, we wanted to reinforce that newly formed Tropical Storm Bertha is expected to remain offshore of the U.S. southeast coast this weekend through next week. There is high confidence in this forecast track, as evidence by the forecast model suite in the below graphic:
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