ALACHUA COUNTY ARES n North Florida Amateur Radio Club n GAINESVILLE AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY
Volunteers from all these wonderful, local amateur radio groups staff shelters in Alachua County during times of stress. Amateur Radio is a fascinating hobby, with over 700,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of others all over the world enjoying the diversity of this hobby. Hams may build and operate their own radios, experiment with satellite communications, participate in emergency services, or just meet friends over the radio. In the United States, all are licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after passing multiple choice tests that range from fairy easy (for the introductory Technician license) to rather complicated (the Amateur Extra Class license).
This hobby is built on volunteers! The Gator Amateur Radio Club, at the University of Florida, as well as ARES, conduct periodic classes to assist people in passing the license exams, and another group of hard-working volunteers provide at-cost examinations every other month in Gainesville.
Below are links of interest to persons curious about ham radio, and also stored information to assist our volunteers staffing shelters:Way too Difficult | Difficult | Perfect | Easy | Way Too Easy |
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TIME | Main Conference R-1 | Downstars Dining R106 | Upstairs Dining R203 |
1430 45 min | Talk 101 Baptist Disaster Relief Services for Amateur Radio Volunteers Marvin Corbin | Talk 102 WIFI Shelter Bulletin System Gordon Gibby KX4Z | Talk 103 Intro to Publicity / PIO Scott Roberts KK4ECR Section PIO |
1515 45 min | Talk 202 Moving Traffic & Training Volunteers in ARES nets PART ONE Joe Bassett W1WCN | Talk 201 MARC UNIT DEMO Kevin Rulapaugh KE4NVI (may be out or inside) | Talk 203 EMCOMM Computer Tips Part One Jeff Capehart W4UFL Alachua EC |
1600 45 min | Talk 302 Moving Traffic & Training Volunteers in ARES Nets PART TWO Joe Bassett W1WCN | Talk 301 Hurricane Michael Experiences James Lea WX4TV | Talk 303 EMCOMM Computer Tips PART TWO Jeff Capehart W4UFL |
1645 | DAY ONE WRAP UP & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
MAIN CONFERENCE | DOWNSTAIRS DINING | UPSTAIRS DINING | |
1000 | ARES CONNECT Jeff Capehart Alachua County EC & ARES CONNECT expert! | ||
1100 | STATE, TRAINING & INSURANCE ISSUES Ben HenleyWCF SEC | ||
1200 90 min | Talk 403 1200-1300 Repeater Controller For Your Own Repeater ICS-CTRL Controller Gordon Gibby KX4Z 1300-1330 SOLAR POWER Gordon Gibby KX4Z | Session 401 HANDS ON Power Pole & Possibly DC Polarity Protection installed for your rig Karl Martin, John Troupe, Alvin Osmena | ROOM HA-105 Session 402 HANDS ON SOLDERING Wiring yoiur radio for Signalink / Digital Susan Halbert & Mike Ridlon |
1330 90 min | Session 502 HANDS ON VHF / HF Go Box Building (may be outside) Stewart Reissener & Alvin Osmena (as needed) | ROOM HA-105 Session 501 HANDS ON AD HOC VHF ANTENNA BUILDING Susan Halbert & Alvin Osmena (as needed) | TALK 503 Tuning Duplexer with $110 Chinese Spectrum Analyzer Gordon Gibby KX4Z |
1500 90 min | Session 601 HANDS ON WINLiNK TRAINING Gordon Gibby KX4Z & Additional Tutors BRING YOUR LAPTOP | Session 601 HANDS ON HF Antenna Deployment In a Disaster Zone Leland Gallup AA3YB Shannon Boal W4GLM | Session 603 ROOM HA-105 SOLDER SESSION BUILDING SOUND CARD DIGITAL SYSTEM Mike Ridlon Alven Osmena Joh Troupe |
1630 30 min | Talk 703 Working Well with Your EOC Jeff Capehart W4UFL | TALK 701 Neighborhood HAM WATCH Gordon Gibby KX4Z | TALK 702 Teaching Ham Radio Courses using ARRL Slides Shannon Boal |
INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM BLANK FORMS
MARCH 2018 North Florida Amateur Radio Club Presentations
Emergency Symposium Newsletter Article (17Mbyte)
EOC-HurricaneIrma-AfterActionReport / Improvement Plan
Routers -- "Network Address Translation"
Lightning Arrestors -- Making Them LabNLunch
WINLINK Proficiency Certification