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North Florida Amateur Radio Club created to support Alachua County ARES(R) ARES(R)/NFARC meeting
ZOOM We are a DYNAMIC and VIBRANT amateur radio club involved in almost every aspect of this incredibly fun hobby, teaching and training as many people as we can, both to benefit them and to increase support for serving our Community through backup radio communications in times of need. GARS -- Busy Week! Meeting Tuesday Evening -- Saturday Ribbon Cutting. (That's also Nancy's BIRTHDAY!) Check out our CALENDAR if you've never tried it... I don't always get everything, but I try! CALENDAR You folks did 292 volunteer hours last month.....that's why! Tentative AUGUST MEETING Agenda - Wednesday August 10 - In Person Brett's Updated AARIP for Field Day TECHNICIAN HAM RADIO COURSE Especially useful to government employees who would like to understand emergency backup communications. Available to anyone, FREE SIGNUP LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGHGafN4pprCOeon4o5uC_t3JZ_BwgUb_6rVazhFuLSsZMZg/viewform TEN Signed up So far!! SATURDAY AUGUST 27 0800 - 1800 (8AM - 6PM) SUNDAY AUGUST 28 1300- 1800 MASSIVE ALL-FLORIDA SIMULATED EMERGENCY TEST SATURDAY OCT 1 Arc Thames W4CPD is doing a GREAT JOB on this..... DRIVEN BY VOLUNTEERS, INCLUDING EVERY POSSIBLE BACKUP COMMS GROUP IN THE STATE! NEW RTTY FIELD DAY HOW-TO DOCUMENT This took a bit of effort on my part to produce.. I'm pretty new to RTTY and I was amazed at the systems within FLDGI to help with SEMI AUTO Logging! Please review and let me know any comments or corrections. Gordon. RTTY FIELD DAY SUGGESTIONS NEW FORM TO REPORT YOUR VOLUNTEERISM VOLUNTEERISM REPORTING FORM (This link is also now in the LEFT COLUMN <----- over THERE and you can find it there long after this little blurb here in the center column DISAPPEARS Brett & Emily's Final Field Day AARIP TECH NITE TALK -- Software systems @ Field day -- THANKS to all who partcipated. Slides: Field Day Software Systems (July Meeting is Next Week) (Click the CALENDAR on the menu list at the top.) Vann Chesney just became our FOURTH successful Radiogram Challenge Training Particpant for the month of JULY. Get er done!! We have a "new to us" 5.5 kW DIESEL GENERATOR (near zero-time!) now in Gainesville that Leland and David are going to transfer to our TRAILER for attempted startup once new oil installed and I return to Gainesville. Will be great power for us for years if it works!! JULY Section Newsletter Alachua County is ALL OVER it!! Great Job, Folks! https://arrl-nfl.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/00-QST-NFL-July-2022.pdf Primary Emergency Traffic Nets / North Florida Alachua County ARES(R) Net: Thursday evenings, 8PM 146.820 repeater Florida Phone Traffic Net, 7 AM 3940 kHz LSB Northern Florida ARES(R) Net, 8:30 AM, 3950 kHz LSB QFN- Florida CW Net - currently 7PM 7117 kHz (The listing on arrl-nfl.org is incorrect; the above is the correct information.) Northern Florida Phone Net 7:30 PM 3950 kHz L:SB Give them a try! The July SEC Training Assignment is to send a radiogram to Arc Thames W4CPD (Milton Florida, 32572, [email protected], or [email protected] ) either by VOICE Radiogram, or Winlink RRI-Radiogram (.txt) Form. (Both are quite easy to do and important skills, need I repeat?) Alachua County LEADS THE SECTION in compliance! Keep it coming!! You are the CHAMPS, Alachua County!!! Fantastic 2022 Field Day Our Best Ever! 702 Total Contacts 2782 Operating Points 1390 Bonus Points 4172 Preliminary Points Total (We got almost every bonus point possible....) 80 Meters: 146 Contacts (including 13 Voice!! - Huckstep!) 40 Meters: 403 Contacts 20 Meters: 179 Contacts 15 Meters: 19 Contacts 10 Meters: 4 6 Meters: 24 GOTA: 37 Contacts!!!!! Including 3 Youth Contacts HUGE MEDIA COVERAGE!! (Hooray PIO Jim Bledsoe!) Many Thanks to Erica from TV20!! GREAT COVERAGE! (And she made her FIRST HAM QSO!) 4 pages of HOTWASH NOTES!! ARRL Submission Completed 6/28/22 (Emily & Gordon) NFL Newsletter Article Submitted 6/28/22 Time for Media THANK-YOU's!! Dignitary THANK-YOU's!! Served Agency THANK-YOU's!! Start Writing the AAR/IP!! GROUPS.IO: https://groups.io/g/NF4RC If you would like to join, please send me an email ([email protected]) and I'll send you out an "invitation." Email to subscribe yourself: [email protected] Alachua County ARES(R) Participation in NFL Section SEC Training Program
Latest Participants Recommended for Background/Badging: Reid Tillery K9RFT Dean Covey KV4RL Brett Wallace NH2KW Amy Woods WA4AMY Lorilyn Roberts KO4LBS Now waiting on the wheels of government to spin! If YOU would like to be qualified to serve our local County in communications in times of need, look at the requirements https://qsl.net/nf4rc/WelcomeToAlachuaCountyARES.pdf There are plenty of other ways to serve, but this gets you built into the County Response.
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Our two digital antennas at base of Beatty Towers antenna installation. W4DFU-7/8/9
Art on top of Beatty Towers (164' up!)
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