I knew I would not be disappointed with this video! I LOVE AARs and use them a lot here! Great exercise, and sounds like your lessons learned from your first exercise were successfully implemented!
Glad to hear it. I almost did not have enough usable video to make it happen. These exercises and AAR are great for incremental improvement. We spent about 3 hours at Denny's afterwards assessing the exercise. Cheers!
Very true! We always learn something on these exercises. We'll become pros at this mode of communication soon. Just need more practice. Cheers from the US, my friend.
Thanks. That shelter system (minus the Jeep), manpack, and the coffee/cook system is literally my man portable gear that goes with me in my ruck. The manpack radio alternates between the FT-8900 and FT-818ND. There will be more on the 818 as I'll be getting back into HF and starting an NVIS series next month. Glad you enjoyed it. Don't miss the 10K give away in the next day or so. 73's
My pleasure. I failed to mention that the tarp shelter and Esbit stove were winners as usual. I'm not sure why NBEMS appears to be overlooked on FM these days? It's an incredible tool. EmComm Tools uses fldigi as it's modem. Thanks for stopping by, Jason.
Good video, you are improving. Learning is why we train, so that we're as effective as possibly when it really counts. I'm looking.at some parks and summits closer to fall. This week during pota activation and while reinstalling my antenna when I got back home, I thought about how nice it would be to have a camera operator.
Thanks. We're improving with each exercise. I almost had another revision of EmComm Tools ready that would have been interesting to test. It's partially integrated with fldigi and supports offline satellite maps. 73's
Love it... and I am so going to copy your canopy and table setup at the next "Tour de Foothills" bike race. We currently don't utilize digital so I will put my FT-8900R intio X-Band repeat gor the extra power and have my HT on a Abree chest rig. Very inspirational, I am still trying to sell the powers that be that this is the way to go. Do you have a play list of your field tests and after action reports?
Thanks, Jose. I almost did not edit and release this video as I had a ton of unusable footage. In the end, I was glad to be able to cobble this together. Are you just looking for the field tests related to NBEMS? If so, can I put together a short playlist. Let me know.
Only if you have the time (Lol...), I just thought it might be convenient sending out my emails, but I can alway copy-n-paste the links. Again, well done.
@@averageguysradio Here you go: ruclips.net/p/PLZpc6PnzmzmHo_zZbFud2A2k0kO4vvo_H I need 40 more subs to hit 10k. If you can, ask them to subscribe if they like the content. I am mostly joking. Good luck making the case for NBEMS. There will be more of it on the channel.
Very Fong cool brother, great video. Just found your channel. Missed out on the bag as I saw you slotted your last bag. But man you're out doing what I wish I had the gear and knowledge for. F-ing Outstanding! Appreciate all your efforts man. Definitely subbed. Wish I found your channel sooner. Stay safe, keep kicking ass!
Welcome to the channel, Robert. At least there's a healthy backlog of 180 videos to watch if you get bored. (They're not all winners). The 40 bags went quickly and no one has seen the finally prototype, myself included. The black manpack was the previous iteration. If the bags work out and people are happy, I'll find a way to scale up the operation and produce a larger second batch in January. I'm delighted that you enjoy the content. I almost closed the channel late last year due to time constraints at work, but glad that I kept it going for viewers like yourself. Take it easy.
Congrats! Looks like it was a success! I truly wish I could’ve attended, but alas, covid is hanging on longer than I wish! From the comms plan to execution you have again done a great job! Looking to the next get together!
We missed you on this expedition, David. Thanks for agreeing to let Mike use and test your laptop. It worked like a champ. Continue to rest up. We'll have another exercise soon.
Nice work buddy! I think the video turned out great and the content is worthwhile. The point of interest for me was how you could maintain your chest rig for audio comms all while tearing down and setting up your digital field station, keeping comms open. I also liked how quick you pack up and can move. I really look forward to one day getting more time to participate in race events. My bike racing days are over. Might as well sign up for radio support! Bugs are the worst. Hope you didn’t get too chewed up! Thanks for filming your experience. It can be a huge pain in the butt. Usually worth it in the end, I think.
Thanks, Eric. You make a great point about maintaining primary comms on the voice net while decommissioning the manpack station. I know that I look like a tactical nerd, but it is very practical having the chest rig wired with the hand mic. Also, all the gear in the chest rig is support gear for the back country (e.g., first aid, maps, grid square tool, compass, water purification, electrolyte tabs, emergency blanket, fire starting, etc.)
@@TheTechPrepper you’ve got it nailed! Sometimes I forget that you’ve got other gear in there. It’s pretty critical in the backcountry to have contingencies like that. One emergency can take you away from the vehicle pretty quick. For those you end up helping, that tactical gear starts to look less cumbersome and more essential. It all has a place. I need to be better about that myself!
I definitely will set up one of these for our heavy truck and our regular POV. Both have CB rigs in them but this will be a better more flexible solution.
Good luck with your setup. This setup works well in a vehicle. The CF-20 laptop converts to a tablet and also mounts to the accessory bar in my Jeep with a RAM mount. If you search for "jeep" on my channel page under the video section you should find the video.
Let's get this show on the road peeps! Good exercise. I like how it's just connect cables & go time. It's too bad the FT-8900 is no longer available, so I guess if we're needing cross-band it's the Kenwood TM-V71A.
Thanks, Dennis. I will likely be selling my twin FTM-6000R manpacks to finance a V71A. When I do, I'll send it to Seth to make an ARMOLOQ TPA pack frame for it. It's great when these manpacks can be assembled using currently available radios.
@Jam Pudding I have twin D710GA's and have had my eye on the TM-V71A. That is on my list to secure a pair sooner rather than later. It will be manpack, of course.
Hey, 1 hiccup is still a positive test! And the more that venture out to test will make it easier for guys like me to come and watch when we are ready to pull the trigger on the project. I'm still looking at what laptop I want to try and pack to use. But great video my friend.
Thanks. We typically learn more when we encounter hiccups. The older rigs with the data port interface worked more effectively compared to the newer gear (IC-705 + tablet) with the new fangled wireless interface. New is not always better. The stations that performed the best were running laptops 5 to 14 years old with radios that have been on the market for about the same period of time. I highly recommend the CF-20. I've done several videos on it. I have even run this exercise with just the tablet portion. The screen is detachable and comes in around 2 lbs. You can find them on the secondary market for $500 to $1000.
Very nice exercise. A suggestion I would make is to not only practice with a repeater, as you never know if it will be offline or if someone else is using it, but also practice relaying messages from weak stations. NBEMS is great for that as you've discovered as you can just resend a received message without changes. You should also practice relays for voice traffic. You may also want to try HF NVIS. For your IC-705 operator, always bring a USB cable as a backup to using the wireless just in case you need it. Scott KB3YOT
Great suggestions. We actually operated this exercise on 70cm simplex. The repeater is for us to be able train from our respective homes. We're spread out over 60 miles. I love NVIS. That's exactly where the content on this channel is going next month. The IC-705 operator and I are working on our HF NVIS antennas. We're 50 miles apart. We're even going to do some VOACAP analysis. We're even going to experiment with ALE. Thanks for the advice. 73
I may have mentioned this before - but getting the surface to work with the 705 is a challenge and takes a lot of effort or money - take your pick. You can use WFVIEW or pay the Icom tax. I chose the WFVIEW path and cut my teeth hard. You have to buy dual virtual cables for it to work correctly. I still plan on doing a video on getting it to work. Once it's setup it works beautifully. However, if not - it's a mess. I'll ping you as I plan on getting this recorded soon, and it may (or may not) be of some help.
Thanks for the pro tip. I passed it along to our group. My only complaint is that the older rigs with the data ports get a bad reputation these days for not having modern features. At the end of the day, it is a single cable when paired with the DigiRig and it just works with out any complicated settings on the radio or the OS. I am a firm believer in K.I.S.S. Take it easy.
Gaston ..... great utilization of NBEMS of FLdigi ) Really nice to see the "Woobie" tent. Need to get back into NBEMS nets again after my move =) Wonderful exercise for an event =) de N5VMO Pat
Thanks for the view and comment. This setup works as a lean-to as well. You just need two more tent stakes. We're going to expand the NBEMS deployment to include HF NVIS soon.
@@TheTechPrepper Already have the radio / HF antenna setup at the new place .... just need to find my audio interface =) Been a while so need some practice with NBEMS ... live in EM25TJ area ..... maybe some time trty HF message passing with NBEMS ...... Thanks Gaston =) de N5VMO Pat
Hello Gaston. i have a question about your settings on fldigi. What transceiver are you using in the setup menu ? i have a digirig and the ft8900. i get it to work on winlink packet, but i am not having any luck on fldigi. Your videos are awesome and very helpful. Keep up the good job. 73s KN4JCA
I enjoy your videos and look forward to new posts. Do you have an instructional video on how to connect the radio to the laptop and how it interfaces with FLMSG?
Thanks for the video Gaston I love these videos! Was it hard to write the custom form? After your advice I have been talking my local group we have a couple events coming which me might try flmsg
You're welcome. It was not difficult, but I'm also a software engineer. The forms are written using a simple HTML file. If you look me up on QRZ and send me an email, I'll send you my form. It would be a good starting point. 73 de KT1RUN
One suggestion. Please share a map showing distances and terrain heights. Doesn’t need to be super detailed. I would like to understand how the various equipment performed over what distances. Sig
Great idea! I usually include maps with this info as my custom software does this. Since we were so close for this initial test, there was little value in showing maps.
I know I'm late to the game here, but is that Windows on your CF-20? Looks like Linux Do you have a video on your CF-20 config for field and digital use?
Good question. For all intent and purpose they are equivalent pieces of equipment. Pick one or the other. They both are designed to interface a radio and computer together. I have both, but have moved to the DigiRig over the last few month. I hope this helps.The DigiRig is newer and is a lot smaller. The SignaLink is a classic, but is bulky and requires jumpers or a special module to work with various radios. The one nice thing about the SignaLink is that you can control the audio levels from the front panel.
One of your best videos! I wish our ARES group here in Oregon would do this kind of training. We use Winlink for messages. What are your reasons for using FLDIGI etc.?
Thank you. Fldigi supports a number of modems. For FM, and under good conditions, the 8PSK1000L modem is lightning fast. We can traffic ICS-213, CSV, blank and custom forms in seconds. If conditions are poor, we can degrade to using our backup modem--which is MT632KL. It's considerably slower but works well in high-noise environments, poor conditions and even allows for acoustic coupling if our digital interface fails for any reason. We can switch to keyboard-to-keyboard messaging if we don't want to deal with flmsg. I'll be testing this on HF soon for regional communications using a variety of NVIS antennas. Stay tuned and please consider sharing this with your group. I only need 50 subscribers to hit 10K! Cheers.
Your ARES team isn't the only one, my CERT team in SoCal is the same. But dince his setup can use the same ICS forms, there may be room to update how we operate.
@@rpestess Great question. Winlink is not involved here. Everything demonstrated was done simplex. We also discovered that it works over a repeater, too. That's the topic in tomorrow's video. If you go the posts section on my buymeacoffee.com/thetechprepper page. There's an article with this new video. It's the Part II Manpack video at the bottom.
I finally started my own group as I was not getting support from the larger emcomm group in our county. I started by inviting a couple of people from the county to my home for small field exercises. Apparently, serving free coffee and donuts sealed the deal. After we did this a couple of times, the group started to grow. We're finally at the point where we are planning on rolling this out during our public service season. Start small, but start.
@@TheTechPrepper That's a great approach. Our local club does a lot of public service work (I'm working an event this coming Saturday) and our RACES group is quite active. Sadly though, our ARES group rarely does much beyond the weekly net.
Will do. Thanks for the offer. I don't think I need any help on the next one, but I may be activating Mt. Baldy in your neck of the woods this coming Saturday. I may do a quick 2m FM activation. Look out for an alert of spot. 73 de KT1RUN
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I knew I would not be disappointed with this video! I LOVE AARs and use them a lot here! Great exercise, and sounds like your lessons learned from your first exercise were successfully implemented!
Glad to hear it. I almost did not have enough usable video to make it happen. These exercises and AAR are great for incremental improvement. We spent about 3 hours at Denny's afterwards assessing the exercise. Cheers!
"bad prepper" if you learn something from it, you are still good. Great stuff overall Gaston. Dial it in and expand the exercises.
Very true! We always learn something on these exercises. We'll become pros at this mode of communication soon. Just need more practice. Cheers from the US, my friend.
I really liked seeing the true field expedient setup with the poncho and coffee. Great video!
Thanks. That shelter system (minus the Jeep), manpack, and the coffee/cook system is literally my man portable gear that goes with me in my ruck. The manpack radio alternates between the FT-8900 and FT-818ND. There will be more on the 818 as I'll be getting back into HF and starting an NVIS series next month. Glad you enjoyed it. Don't miss the 10K give away in the next day or so. 73's
Great video. Love playing and learning Fldigi
Thanks. The fldigi suite is a lot of fun and has tons of practical applications. Enjoy!
Thanks for the AAR!
My pleasure. I failed to mention that the tarp shelter and Esbit stove were winners as usual. I'm not sure why NBEMS appears to be overlooked on FM these days? It's an incredible tool. EmComm Tools uses fldigi as it's modem. Thanks for stopping by, Jason.
Good video, you are improving. Learning is why we train, so that we're as effective as possibly when it really counts.
I'm looking.at some parks and summits closer to fall.
This week during pota activation and while reinstalling my antenna when I got back home, I thought about how nice it would be to have a camera operator.
Thanks. We're improving with each exercise. I almost had another revision of EmComm Tools ready that would have been interesting to test. It's partially integrated with fldigi and supports offline satellite maps. 73's
Great video as always.....
Thanks for the support as always...
Love it... and I am so going to copy your canopy and table setup at the next "Tour de Foothills" bike race. We currently don't utilize digital so I will put my FT-8900R intio X-Band repeat gor the extra power and have my HT on a Abree chest rig. Very inspirational, I am still trying to sell the powers that be that this is the way to go. Do you have a play list of your field tests and after action reports?
Thanks, Jose. I almost did not edit and release this video as I had a ton of unusable footage. In the end, I was glad to be able to cobble this together. Are you just looking for the field tests related to NBEMS? If so, can I put together a short playlist. Let me know.
Only if you have the time (Lol...), I just thought it might be convenient sending out my emails, but I can alway copy-n-paste the links. Again, well done.
@@averageguysradio Here you go: ruclips.net/p/PLZpc6PnzmzmHo_zZbFud2A2k0kO4vvo_H
I need 40 more subs to hit 10k. If you can, ask them to subscribe if they like the content. I am mostly joking. Good luck making the case for NBEMS. There will be more of it on the channel.
Very Fong cool brother, great video.
Just found your channel. Missed out on the bag as I saw you slotted your last bag. But man you're out doing what I wish I had the gear and knowledge for. F-ing Outstanding!
Appreciate all your efforts man. Definitely subbed. Wish I found your channel sooner.
Stay safe, keep kicking ass!
Welcome to the channel, Robert. At least there's a healthy backlog of 180 videos to watch if you get bored. (They're not all winners). The 40 bags went quickly and no one has seen the finally prototype, myself included. The black manpack was the previous iteration. If the bags work out and people are happy, I'll find a way to scale up the operation and produce a larger second batch in January. I'm delighted that you enjoy the content. I almost closed the channel late last year due to time constraints at work, but glad that I kept it going for viewers like yourself. Take it easy.
Congrats! Looks like it was a success! I truly wish I could’ve attended, but alas, covid is hanging on longer than I wish! From the comms plan to execution you have again done a great job! Looking to the next get together!
We missed you on this expedition, David. Thanks for agreeing to let Mike use and test your laptop. It worked like a champ. Continue to rest up. We'll have another exercise soon.
@@TheTechPrepper Sweet! Would’ve rather been there versus convalescing with Nurse Nancy hovering over me!
Nice work buddy! I think the video turned out great and the content is worthwhile. The point of interest for me was how you could maintain your chest rig for audio comms all while tearing down and setting up your digital field station, keeping comms open. I also liked how quick you pack up and can move. I really look forward to one day getting more time to participate in race events. My bike racing days are over. Might as well sign up for radio support!
Bugs are the worst. Hope you didn’t get too chewed up! Thanks for filming your experience. It can be a huge pain in the butt. Usually worth it in the end, I think.
Thanks, Eric. You make a great point about maintaining primary comms on the voice net while decommissioning the manpack station. I know that I look like a tactical nerd, but it is very practical having the chest rig wired with the hand mic. Also, all the gear in the chest rig is support gear for the back country (e.g., first aid, maps, grid square tool, compass, water purification, electrolyte tabs, emergency blanket, fire starting, etc.)
@@TheTechPrepper you’ve got it nailed! Sometimes I forget that you’ve got other gear in there. It’s pretty critical in the backcountry to have contingencies like that. One emergency can take you away from the vehicle pretty quick. For those you end up helping, that tactical gear starts to look less cumbersome and more essential. It all has a place. I need to be better about that myself!
5:26 what chest rig and equipment are you wearing? looks nice.
It's the Haley Strategic D3CRM. This thing has been used 5 days per week in the desert for the last 3 years. You get what you pay for. I recommend it.
I definitely will set up one of these for our heavy truck and our regular POV. Both have CB rigs in them but this will be a better more flexible solution.
Good luck with your setup. This setup works well in a vehicle. The CF-20 laptop converts to a tablet and also mounts to the accessory bar in my Jeep with a RAM mount. If you search for "jeep" on my channel page under the video section you should find the video.
Let's get this show on the road peeps! Good exercise. I like how it's just connect cables & go time. It's too bad the FT-8900 is no longer available, so I guess if we're needing cross-band it's the Kenwood TM-V71A.
Thanks, Dennis. I will likely be selling my twin FTM-6000R manpacks to finance a V71A. When I do, I'll send it to Seth to make an ARMOLOQ TPA pack frame for it. It's great when these manpacks can be assembled using currently available radios.
@Jam Pudding I have twin D710GA's and have had my eye on the TM-V71A. That is on my list to secure a pair sooner rather than later. It will be manpack, of course.
Hey, 1 hiccup is still a positive test! And the more that venture out to test will make it easier for guys like me to come and watch when we are ready to pull the trigger on the project.
I'm still looking at what laptop I want to try and pack to use.
But great video my friend.
Thanks. We typically learn more when we encounter hiccups. The older rigs with the data port interface worked more effectively compared to the newer gear (IC-705 + tablet) with the new fangled wireless interface. New is not always better. The stations that performed the best were running laptops 5 to 14 years old with radios that have been on the market for about the same period of time. I highly recommend the CF-20. I've done several videos on it. I have even run this exercise with just the tablet portion. The screen is detachable and comes in around 2 lbs. You can find them on the secondary market for $500 to $1000.
Very nice exercise. A suggestion I would make is to not only practice with a repeater, as you never know if it will be offline or if someone else is using it, but also practice relaying messages from weak stations. NBEMS is great for that as you've discovered as you can just resend a received message without changes. You should also practice relays for voice traffic. You may also want to try HF NVIS. For your IC-705 operator, always bring a USB cable as a backup to using the wireless just in case you need it.
Scott KB3YOT
Great suggestions. We actually operated this exercise on 70cm simplex. The repeater is for us to be able train from our respective homes. We're spread out over 60 miles. I love NVIS. That's exactly where the content on this channel is going next month. The IC-705 operator and I are working on our HF NVIS antennas. We're 50 miles apart. We're even going to do some VOACAP analysis. We're even going to experiment with ALE. Thanks for the advice. 73
Great video....would js8call be an easier format? I just recently started js8 and I like it because of the simplicity. Thanks again.
I may have mentioned this before - but getting the surface to work with the 705 is a challenge and takes a lot of effort or money - take your pick. You can use WFVIEW or pay the Icom tax. I chose the WFVIEW path and cut my teeth hard. You have to buy dual virtual cables for it to work correctly. I still plan on doing a video on getting it to work. Once it's setup it works beautifully. However, if not - it's a mess. I'll ping you as I plan on getting this recorded soon, and it may (or may not) be of some help.
To be clear - I could get FLdigi, VARA, winlink, WSJTX, and JS8call all working wirelessly. I could not get D-RATS working correctly however.
Thanks for the pro tip. I passed it along to our group. My only complaint is that the older rigs with the data ports get a bad reputation these days for not having modern features. At the end of the day, it is a single cable when paired with the DigiRig and it just works with out any complicated settings on the radio or the OS. I am a firm believer in K.I.S.S. Take it easy.
Gaston ..... great utilization of NBEMS of FLdigi ) Really nice to see the "Woobie" tent. Need to get back into NBEMS nets again after my move =) Wonderful exercise for an event =) de N5VMO Pat
Thanks for the view and comment. This setup works as a lean-to as well. You just need two more tent stakes. We're going to expand the NBEMS deployment to include HF NVIS soon.
Good luck with your move.
@@TheTechPrepper Already have the radio / HF antenna setup at the new place .... just need to find my audio interface =) Been a while so need some practice with NBEMS ... live in EM25TJ area ..... maybe some time trty HF message passing with NBEMS ...... Thanks Gaston =) de N5VMO Pat
Hello Gaston. i have a question about your settings on fldigi. What transceiver are you using in the setup menu ? i have a digirig and the ft8900. i get it to work on winlink packet, but i am not having any luck on fldigi. Your videos are awesome and very helpful. Keep up the good job. 73s KN4JCA
You're in luck. I covered this in my recent digital modes series: ruclips.net/video/eTEgyTIuOqs/видео.html
@@TheTechPrepper thank you. I didn't catch that video.
I enjoy your videos and look forward to new posts. Do you have an instructional video on how to connect the radio to the laptop and how it interfaces with FLMSG?
Thanks. Here you go: ruclips.net/video/eTEgyTIuOqs/видео.html
GASTON looks like you have a great group of friends there.
I do. They're a good bunch of guys. They also have a sense of humor...I missed that gene.
Thanks for the video Gaston I love these videos! Was it hard to write the custom form? After your advice I have been talking my local group we have a couple events coming which me might try flmsg
You're welcome. It was not difficult, but I'm also a software engineer. The forms are written using a simple HTML file. If you look me up on QRZ and send me an email, I'll send you my form. It would be a good starting point. 73 de KT1RUN
nice video !
Thanks! Have a good one!
What is the pack you have on the front of the Helikon-Tex E&E Survival and Bushcraft Pouch Bag? Thanks 🤙
It's the 5.11 6x6 admin pouch
One suggestion. Please share a map showing distances and terrain heights. Doesn’t need to be super detailed. I would like to understand how the various equipment performed over what distances. Sig
Great idea! I usually include maps with this info as my custom software does this. Since we were so close for this initial test, there was little value in showing maps.
I know I'm late to the game here, but is that Windows on your CF-20? Looks like Linux Do you have a video on your CF-20 config for field and digital use?
I’m looking for a rugged tablet I can use with FLdigi, needs a SIM card also. Any recommendations?
It's the CF-20 Toughbook shown.
@@TheTechPrepper I actually have a Tough book. I’m looking for something smaller for my Manpack kit.
What chest rig are you using?
It's the Haley Strategic D3CRM.
do you run signal link with digirig?
Good question. For all intent and purpose they are equivalent pieces of equipment. Pick one or the other. They both are designed to interface a radio and computer together. I have both, but have moved to the DigiRig over the last few month. I hope this helps.The DigiRig is newer and is a lot smaller. The SignaLink is a classic, but is bulky and requires jumpers or a special module to work with various radios. The one nice thing about the SignaLink is that you can control the audio levels from the front panel.
One of your best videos! I wish our ARES group here in Oregon would do this kind of training. We use Winlink for messages. What are your reasons for using FLDIGI etc.?
Thank you. Fldigi supports a number of modems. For FM, and under good conditions, the 8PSK1000L modem is lightning fast. We can traffic ICS-213, CSV, blank and custom forms in seconds. If conditions are poor, we can degrade to using our backup modem--which is MT632KL. It's considerably slower but works well in high-noise environments, poor conditions and even allows for acoustic coupling if our digital interface fails for any reason. We can switch to keyboard-to-keyboard messaging if we don't want to deal with flmsg. I'll be testing this on HF soon for regional communications using a variety of NVIS antennas. Stay tuned and please consider sharing this with your group. I only need 50 subscribers to hit 10K! Cheers.
Your ARES team isn't the only one, my CERT team in SoCal is the same. But dince his setup can use the same ICS forms, there may be room to update how we operate.
@@TheTechPrepper So you don't need a gateway like Winlink? Is this just sent over FM either simplex or through a normal repeater?
@@rpestess Great question. Winlink is not involved here. Everything demonstrated was done simplex. We also discovered that it works over a repeater, too. That's the topic in tomorrow's video. If you go the posts section on my buymeacoffee.com/thetechprepper page. There's an article with this new video. It's the Part II Manpack video at the bottom.
Have you experimented with JS8CALL to pass traffic between your group. Make a @group for everyone to work through.
Not yet. As JS8CALL is better suited for SSB. Most of our events are FM. I'll be doing JS8CALL once our group gets on HF.
What digital mode were you using?
We were using fldigi and flmsg with the MT63-2KL and 8PSK-1000F modems. They work great on VHF/UHF.
Can you explain why you used two modes and the advantages of each, thank you.
I wish our local ARES group was doing more of this.
I finally started my own group as I was not getting support from the larger emcomm group in our county. I started by inviting a couple of people from the county to my home for small field exercises. Apparently, serving free coffee and donuts sealed the deal. After we did this a couple of times, the group started to grow. We're finally at the point where we are planning on rolling this out during our public service season. Start small, but start.
@@TheTechPrepper That's a great approach. Our local club does a lot of public service work (I'm working an event this coming Saturday) and our RACES group is quite active. Sadly though, our ARES group rarely does much beyond the weekly net.
Great Video - as always! Thanks for all you do brother. KC8OWL
My pleasure. Thanks for the support. I'm just learning and sharing as I go. 73 de KT1RUN
If you're ever activating or operating near Los Angeles I'm happy to help film and I'm also a SOTA guy, just DM.
Will do. Thanks for the offer. I don't think I need any help on the next one, but I may be activating Mt. Baldy in your neck of the woods this coming Saturday. I may do a quick 2m FM activation. Look out for an alert of spot. 73 de KT1RUN
Lost his number, well that's a first,did he forget to tie his shoes?
The ARA? The AFL-CIO ARA? Talk about clusters...
I would like to invite you to view the ultimate digital communications experience. I am not sure hoe to make this work Glenn N6JAI
I'm on QRZ. 73 de KT1RUN