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-- RV TRAILERS!!

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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

Col. Huckstep & Jeff working on background checks -- helpful information from Ben Henley & Karl Martin much appreciated.

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

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!

Corrected list of schools (7/12/2018):

1. Rawlings   (on my previous list)   3500 NE 15th Street, a bit SW of the airport
    (done already) Westwood
2. Sidney Lanier (on high ground near the Red Cross) 312 NW 16th Avenue
3. Williams (on my previous list)   620 East University, sorta downtown
4. Chiles   2525 School House Rd, Gainesville, FL 32608 -- west of I-75 and likely impossible to reach from the EOC without repeaters.
5. Alachua Elementary    13800 Northwest 152nd Place, Alachua, FL 32615 -- in Alachua and likely impossible to reach from the EOC without repeaters
    (done already) Santa Fe HS
6.   Talbot    5701 NW 43rd St, Gainesville, FL 32653   Right near the 146.82 repeater, Devill's Millhopper area -- and likely impossible to reach from the EOC without repeaters.

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

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

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