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Washington County ARES. May 2014. Visitors. Upgrades & Certificates. AuxCom. Stations – Served Agencies. Continuity Test. Does the Damn think work!. Continuity Test . 147.320 mhz Repeater ARRG 80m SSB 3.964mhz 40m SSB 7.248mhz DSTAR 440.550 KD7RFI B ( Bvtn ) DSTAR Simplex 147.54. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Washington County ARES

May 2014

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Visitors

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Upgr

ades &

C

ertificates

AuxCom

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Stations – Served Agencies

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Continuity Test

Does the Damn think work!

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Continuity Test 147.320 mhz Repeater ARRG80m SSB 3.964mhz40m SSB 7.248mhzDSTAR 440.550 KD7RFI B (Bvtn)DSTAR Simplex 147.54

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Continuity Test

2m/70cm Repeaters2m SimplexWinlink GatewaysWinlink P2PPSK

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Continuity Test Participants: 124 Contacts: HF Voice 252 Winlink P2P 3 Winlink Gateway 173 PSK32 5 2m & 70cm RPTR 318 2m Simplex 68 DSTAR RPTR 31 DSTAR Simplex 13

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Contacts

863+ Contacts

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ICS 309 Samples

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IS 309 Sample

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ICS 309 WC7EOC COMMUNICATIONS LOG

 TASK #

 DATE PREPARED:04/12/2014TIME PREPARED: 1800

 FOR OPERATIONAL PERIOD #

 TASK NAME: Continuity Test

 RADIO OPERATOR NAME (LOGISTICS): Robertson

 STATION I.D. WC7EOC

 LOG

  

 STATION I.D.

   

TIME 

FROM 

TO 

SUBJECT 0920

 KX7YT

 WC7EOC

 Continuity test Message 

0923 K7BVT

 WC7EOC

 Beaverton EOC 

0930 K7HIO

 WC7EOC

 HIO EOC 

1003 K7PAT

 WC7EOC

 Test Message 

1011 WC7EOC

 ALL

 Group message 

1016 KE7WKM

 WC7EOC

   

1026 WC7EOC

 KF7JCK

   

1015 WC7EOC

 K7EAJ

  

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Continuity Test Beaverton EOC

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Continuity Test Beaverton EOC

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Tigard Station

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What Worked

More participation than expected HF Pactor worked well through the XE2

gateway on 20 meters in Mexico. It was  a good exercise for training.  We

could do more like this.

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What didn’t work

adding ICS forms to a file on the packet PC Clean up address book Need DSTAR for Dummies x2 Update repeater list for all radios – including

DSTAR 40/80m difficult “Qualify” DRATS DSTAR DRATS proved unreliable through

the Synopsis repeater

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Why We Do This

http://nyti.ms/1enRFR4

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Spring SET 2014 Spring SET Apr 16th 0700-1400 Wednesday Everything works – Internet – Repeaters –

Etc… be prepared for surprises It’s about the connection to County

Emergency Managers Earthquake & Flooding Event Small limited SET

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Spring SET Addendum

Steve N7BEF & Lynn KE7WKM activated for SET

2 messages were sent Activation and a Quarterly Report

2 messages were received from Ernie K7EAJ – Activation & Deactivation

No messages were received from our emergency manager

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One Weird Trick to:

To get S9 Cut QRM Make an antenna Get on the air Build….

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TIP: know what poison oak looks like. To be fair to our SEC, I don't think Vince got into any while tying off the end of the dipole

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TIP: this is the easiest way to get a rope over a tree branch that I have found. Lee KD7CNH tries the underhand fling from a bucket.

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Support structure

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Cut Tubing

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Slide over Terminal

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Training Day Saturday September 13th 0900 to 1400

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Clear 0n Your Final

What Did I Miss

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Additions

Field Day need volunteers – EC will cook burgers

Annual Elections will be held at the June 2014 General Meeting. Ben Johnson(Chair), Ken Tolliver (Secretary), Rick Banton (Member-at-Large) and Paul Thutt (Member-at-Large) are the terms that are expiring. All wish to continue serving.

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