OPS on June 11th, 2010

Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day ARMAD 2011 will be held on 28 May 2011 (the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend).

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k7ek on March 13th, 2010

An efficient sound card HF digital mode A new FREE sound card digital protocol, called Winmor, has been created by the Winlink 2000 Development Team. Its purpose is to augment the prohibitively expensive and proprietary Pactor modes, bringing a viable HF digital communications alternative to the masses. RMS is the abbreviation for Radio Mail Server. [...]

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OPS on March 9th, 2010

The *NEBRASKA* Reflector (Conference)  EchoLink Node: 256740 has become an active resource for Amateur Radio and Public Safety in Nebraska. The *KANSAS* *NEBRASKA* Reflector Net is held on Wednesday nights at 20:00 CST (Winter 0200Z Summer 0100Z).

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OPS on August 11th, 2009

Digital Amateur Radio Project Association (DARPA) The Other DARPA …. Received its group callsign on 4 August 2009. The Amateur Radio callsign is: KJ4NYH, with Will (W4WWM) being the trustee for the communication system license. Additional information about The Other DARPA visit darpa.asteriskradio.net

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OPS on July 14th, 2009

High Speed Multi Media (HSMM) is often referred to as being the Hinternet (Ham Internet), as it is primarily used under FCC Rules & Regulations Part 97. Under Part 97 commercial off-the-shelf equipment can be used at higher power and higher gain than the more common Part 15 802.11a/b/g operations. The primary purpose for HSMM [...]

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admin on June 18th, 2009

There’s been a lot of activity in the past month in several different areas regarding communications support. On 23 May 2009 the *KANSAS*, *NEBRASKA* and *WYOMING* were all put to use in support of ARMAD 2009. We were able to express our appreciation to those that serve in the Military as well the First Responders. [...]

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admin on May 31st, 2009

Emergency Operations – Regulations regarding radio communications. AMATEUR RADIO Sec. 97.401 Operation during a disaster. A station in, or within 92.6 km (50 nautical miles) of, Alaska may transmit emissions J3E and R3E on the channel at 5.1675 MHz (assigned frequency5.1689 MHz) for emergency communications. The channel must be shared with stations licensed in the [...]

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admin on April 15th, 2009

For those that have been working with ALERTradio ERC for a while will probably know about High Speed Multi Media (HSMM) which is a term often used in Emergency Communications and Amateur Radio. Ubiquiti Networks makes a number of products that are highly suited to the HSMM applications.   One of the most unique products from [...]

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admin on April 7th, 2009

Did you know that the *WYOMING* Reflector (Conference) EchoLink Node: 256748 is online and available to support emergency communications and general amateur operations.   Please let those in Wyoming and elsewhere know that the *WYOMING* Reflector is operational and ready for use.

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admin on November 18th, 2008

Remember the Manual … Ever been in the situation during normal conditions (let alone an emergency operation) where you were trying to figure out a particular function that you knew that a piece of equipment (e.g. radio, repeater controller, generator, etc.) has, but just couldn’t remember how to get it work. Do you have a [...]

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