NF4RCHomePage

It is a bit nervewracking to have to explain that not only does the Emperor "have no clothes" but they were apparently BIASED and PREJUDICED in application of a flawed standard as well....

New---Version 1.07
FREE SOFTWARE TO READ WINLINK ON THE FLY USING DRAGON 7400/7800

FREE MANUAL FOR FREE SOFTWARE READING WINLINK PACTOR

DRAFT Alachua County ARES AAR/IP Hurricane Dorian

*OPEN-SOURCE FILES TO READ WINLINK WITH RASPBERRY PI*

"Someone said it couldn't be done...."

But they forgot to tell
John Huggins and Me.
AND PETER HELFERT

Moving Toward Closure: Acknowledging What Has Been Proved

Wireless Assn. South Hills Invited Editorial

How To Read Winlink....
How WINLINK became the cleanest part of all of amateur radio
How John Huggins KX4O Blew It Wide Open
How Jean-Paul Roubelat F6FBB Started It All
Nobody Cares Any More, Ron!
There Never Was Significant Interference
Lotta People Didn't Understand This....

Now back to our normal stuff......

END-FED HALF-WAVE BALUN CONSTRUCTION

(Our Lab-N-Lunch Project for 12 Noon Saturday Sept 7, Wendy's I-75 & 39th Avenue)

THIS BOOK IS NOW GOING TO NEED TWO NEW CHAPTERS.....

Amazon Web Site - Paperback

CW on a regular Transceiver

JULY 10 Wed NFARC / ARES Meeting
Tentative July Agenda
History of ARES Task Books
Transistor BIASING
AREDN Familiarization

Guess What Antenna?

Hear more about this at the meeting.....

Last Month......
Tentative June Agenda
Transistor Amplifer Part 2.0
Cherokee Cty GA NetPractice
Dimensions 4.5 Time Service Download (for FT8, JS8Call)

Emergency Traffic Net Control Practice Handout

PROCEDURAL WORDS OF INTEREST

Handling Back and Forth:
• “Over” A reply is expected, “go ahead.”
• “Out” No reply is expected. Do not respond (like “hanging up” the phone).
• “Roger” Received and Understood (NOT “Yes”)
• “Affirmative” Yes
• “Negative” No
• “Clear” Same as “Out.” No reply is expected.
• “Say Again” Repeat

Getting A Message Across
I SPELL
INITIAL (or INITIALS, as the case may be)
FIGURES (zip codes, telephone numbers, zip codes, or combinations of numbers )
MIXED GROUP (figures and letters)
BREAK (what you say between sections; except Shannon has concluded we should use PAUSE on local vhf repeaters)
AMATEUR CALL SIGN

Volunteer Requirements from State

Updated Hurricane Michael Improveent Plan

Updated 2019 Emergency Conf. Improvement Plan

After Action Report / Improvement Plan for Conference Exercise

REFLECTIONS
The Science of What Happens On Coax!

Reflections 1.0 - how reflections work
Reflection 2.0 -- Betweeen the 1/4 wave points
Reflections 3.0 -- adding things in series and parallel

Reflections 3.0 will be at the meeting! -- How to add impedances and admittances EASY on the Chart.

59 Participated!

Photos & Conference Directory

The 2019 (Florida) Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference was a huge success -- scores 4.6/5.0 The Exercise was a smash hit with the participants. 29 Talks / Sessions given -- so many thanks to the speakers! Everyone learned a ton! We attempted to build in better ICS procedures for situational awareness (the Activity Report and updates to documents) -- with slight success.
From duplexers to WINLINK -- we covered as much as we possiibly could about Emergency Communications!

The Exercise After Action Report/Improvement Plan is >60 pages, being reviewed now and will be released soon. It is in HSEEP Format, exactly the format used by city, county, state and federal exercise planners. You can use it to show your officials the caliber of training being accomplished today in Amateur Radio.

It will be a text on Amazon, just like most of our documents, and also available free here.

2019 Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference

Solution finally found for reliable two-node relaying, e.g., all the way from Trenton into GNVWLK:

Two-Node Relay Packet Settings

Big CONGRATS to all the successfull Alachua County Hams who made it into the WINLINK Check-In net this week: AC4QS, AA3YB, KG4VWI, KM4DLF, KM4JTE,KX4Z -- great job!!

Being well-rounded, capable of all kinds of modes, bands, techniques -- a strong asset for anyone in emegency communications!

Draft HamWatch Information

New Trenton VHF Packet Repeater Coverage W4DAK-7

Trenton Coverage

Blue area past the green coverage of NF4C-7 (NEWB) is NEW westward coverage for our training/emergency network.

Coffee Cup FREE FTP

ASSETS & SKILLS Form --

Assets&Skills

DHS EMP Radio Protection Recommendations-2016

Key Points:

EOCX-012.1 -- Develop volunteer plan for EOC to include Amateur Radio (Human Resources, 9/1/2018)
SHLT-006.2 -- Recruit additional amateur radio operators to staff more shelters (ACEM / CSS , 6/1/2018)
SHLT-006.3 -- Encourage shelter managers getting license (ACEM / CSS 6/1/2019) -- we could provide classes!!
SHLT-006.5 -- ANTENNA PASSTHRUS (ACEM / ACPS 6/1/2018)

SHLT-007 Shelters were in a situational awareness silo, limiting the information known to the shelter staff and the shelterees -- (ITS ACEM CSS DOH-Alachua -- 6/1/2018) --- We may have a help for that!

SHLT-007.3 -- Increase information shared with amateur radio (ACEM / CSS 6/1/2018) -- We now have a great outlet for increased information!!

Load the document, do a search for "radio" (44 instances) and you'll find a treasure trove of information.

hree bridging stations now connect our
145.070 network of stations to other groups:

ALL PORTS WILL USE COMMON SCHEME:
Port 6 - 145.030
Port 7 = 145.070
Port 8= 145.770

NF4RC

Contact Information
Trustee
Gordon Gibby MD Phone 352 331 6639

[email protected]

"How-To" on building a Go-Box

(I have plenty of wood forms if you need one already cut and screwed together.)

Forest Grove NF4RC-7 FireTower station

Beatty Tower dual-frequency station

Beatty Towers Antennas W4DFU-8

Our two digital antennas at base of Beatty Towers antenna installation. W4DFU-7/8/9

Art on top of Beatty Towers (164' up!)

ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTATION OF EXERCISES

2018

2018 SECRET EXERCISE DETAILS

2017

Textbook On Our Steinhatchee Exercise

Full Scale Exercise Developtment: 2017 Hurricane Test Development
2017 AfterAction Hurricane Test Repor
2017HurricaneTest: Participant Workbook

2016

Reference Information

Important Facts #1
Important Facts #2
Important Facts #3
Important Facts #4

Experimental Google Alachua County Map
Black 145.030
Yellow 145.070
Green 145.770 (SEDAN)

AlachuaCountyNodeMap
Marion County Packet Map
BPQ Packet Node Map
BPQ Chat Node Map
HF FORWARDING TEST
CARRIED OUT 4/5
Test Results (PDF)

Marion County ARES

BREVARD COUNTY ARES

GARC Online Calendar

(Relatively PERMANENT Information)*

After Action Reports of NFARC

2017 Hurricane Exercise (May 2017)

2017 Steinhatchee Storm (60 mi deployment)

2018 Wacassasa Wildfire Exercise

2018 Hurricane Michael AAR/IP

Updated Hurricane Michael Improvement Plan

After Action Report / Improvement Plan for 2019 Conference Exercise

Updated Improvement Plan (2019 Conference)

EOC INTERFERENCE & ANTENNA REPORTS

March 23 2019 Comms Test

EOC Interference Study Feb 22 2019

ARES(R) / RACES Info / Signup

Basic Information - Alachua County ARES(R) RACES
RACES Application
BackgroundCheck Authorization

ALACHUA COUNTY SPECIFIC INFORMATION

Local ARES Levels
Local ARES taskbook
ALACHUA COUNTY BAOFENG CHIRP FREQUENCIES

ALACHUA COUNTY ICS-205

Educational Articles

How to wire your station for digital
Solution For Two-Node Packet WINLINK Traversal
Primer on FLDIGI
Homebrew 2 meter SLIMJIM Antenna Construction
Raspberry Pi Packet Server
Example linbpq config file
Raspberry Pi USB Lockup Fix
$10TNC Introduction
Creating Private Residential Packet Backbone
QST: EMP Protection
DHS 2016 EMP Protection Recommendations
Katrina: Communications Failures
Useful Emergency Equipment
How to Use WINLINK without WINDOWS at ALL
Soundmodem/audio configuration how-to
Baluns & RFI-Ham Educational Treatise
BALUNS --- Part One
BALUNS--Part Two
HOW-TO document for making baluns
MESH & other info about BPQ
Advanced BPQ node commands from John Wiseman #1
More Updated Advanced Node commands from John Wiseman #2
RaspberryDeliverySheet (pdf)
PACTOR educational information
RegulatoryMyths
RFI AMBIENT NOISE PROTOCOL
CW on an ordinary Transceiver
Using Headphones With Baofeng UV-5R
Making Baofeng UV-5R Data Cable

TransistorAmplifiers1.0
Transistor Amplifier 2.0
Transistor Amplifier 3.0 (Biasing)

WINLINK & PACKET EDUCATIONAL
How to wire your station for digital
Soundmodem/audio configuration how-to
EasyTerm Tutorial
VHF WINLINK Primer
Primer on WINLINK "connect"scripts
Creating WINLINK Account By Radio

SSTV Applications
Power over Ethernet in the Field
Changes to reduce Raspberry server WRITES
ConfiguringHFForwardingRMSGateway
Primer on WINLINK "connect"scripts
EchoLink Over Raspberry PI
D-Rats Publlished Manual
D-RATS over AX.25 Alachua Ares Handout

ICS Positions / Nomenclature
10 KW Generator Information
ICOM CI-V Addresses

Training Manuals / Criteria etc.
(EC-001 Stuff Also)
Proposed Baptist DR Training
WINLINK "Slo-Mo" Training #1
Traffic NCS Practice
Radiogram Practice Document
WINLINK Practice Tasks
ARRL MPG book chapter on NCS
ARRL EC-001 PDF Texts (Dropbox)
ARES TaskBooks

EMP Resources
SB-100 EMP PROOF RIG SPECIFICATION
QST: EMP Protection
Comm Acad (Wash state) Nuclear/EMP Lecture
Harris Cty TX ARES: EMP protection
1987 Telecomm EMP Survivability Assessment (DTIC)
Suggested by a state official:
Washington Examiner - EMP
Oct 2017 - Vincent Pry
DHS EMP Protection Levels

Repeater Construction
svxlink configuration manual
HowTo - Additional Info on ICS-CTRL 1X Controller

TRAFFIC TRAINING
DTN Software/Instation Instructions
ARRL Traffic Manual
RRI Traffic Training Manual
RRI DTN (Digital Traffic Net) White Paper
RRI Registration Form
RRI Facebook
RRI Web
NTS Procedural Words (Wells)
Net Control Practice

2018 Symposium Task Solutions (Suggestions)
Task 1: Stand up Command Net
Task 3: AM Emergency Broadcasting for EOC
Task 4: Emergency Contact to the State EOC
Task 8: Emergency FM NWS Broadcast for EOC

FILES FOR BUILDERS & HAMS
DipTrace Files For Soundcard Interface PCB
Zip'ed Gerber Files to Send To PCB Makerfor Soundcard Interface
Soundcard V2.2 Construction Manual (June 2019)
Soundcard Isolation building manual (for slightly earlier version)
(change the 47K in the base of the audio input amp to more like 5-10K)

Raduino / SWR Meter DigitalFrequencySynthesis PCB DipTrace

LINKS TO DIGITAL RESOURCES

Sarasota Emergency Radio Club
WINLINK
Terrestrial Packet Radio Network
TAPR (Tucson)
SATERN digital net primer
youtube: checking into DAREN

LINKS TO BUILDING RESOURCES
Kits And Parts Dot Com
QRP Kits -- nice stuff
QRP Labs
QRP Guys -- cheapest stuff!
DigiKey -- EVERYTHING parts wise

PROPAGATION
World Map of Critical Frequencies
HF BEACON FREQUENCIES
Eglin AFB ionosonde
Texas Army Mars HF Ionosphere Data
Map of BEST FREQUENCIES RIGHT NOW
Educational Info on Bands / Available Data

Ports Blocked by COX CABLE
HSEEP Exercise Creation Manual
State of Florida Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan

EQUIPMENT DESIGN
50W HF MOSFET amp
Designing LC low-pass RF filters
Common Me Balun Chokes
WA2EBY Amp Build
ALE
Startup Suggestions

Hurricane Shelter---Problems!

BITX Resources
Manual for uBitx 3rd party software
Loading/Using the IDE
Initial NFARC ubix construction
OutboardLPFRelayDaughterboard

Emergency Comms Resources
Shelter Reference Book (of forms etc)
BLANK RADIOGRAM
School PassThrough Installation

LabNLunch Projects
LightningEMPArrestor
OCF Dipole Balun Construction
uBitx information & purchase
12V Power Dist Project

Antennas
Florida 20 Foot Flag Pole Law

Exercise Documents

March 2019
ICS-201
ICS-205
ICS-205 AVIATION
ICS-206 (Medical)

FREQUENCY INTERCONNECTIONS

Note: bpq nodes "learn" from "node broadcasts" and can intelligently route!
To see what routes exist to reach a station, using "classic packet" keyboard access, type N <callsign>
To allow the node to make the co
nnection by itself, type C <scallsign>

updated 12/2018 mnemonics to help the port numbers make sense		Beatty Twr CONNECTS 145.030 to 145.770	Jim	Gordon	Forest Grove Fire tower	TRENTON
145.030 (Port 6) "OCALA" "6 is twice 3"	Most Ocala Stations	W4DFU-8 GARC2		KX4Z-7 JNVILL KX4Z-10 GNVWLK
145.070 (Port 7) "GAINESVILLE" "7 = .070"			KI4KEA-7	KX4Z-7 JNVILL KX4Z-10 GNVWLK	NF4RC-7 NEWB	W4DAK-7 DARK
145.770 (Port 8) SEDAN ".770 is almost .8"		W4DFU-8 GARC2