Jeremy Taylor, RI Section Emergency Coordinator, built on the RI Section Simulated Emergency Tests (conducted in October 2023) to challenge RI-ARES member Winlink skills in support of the Eastern Massachusetts SET conducted last Saturday, November 11, 2023 from 10-Noon. He wrote:
“As we gave gotten pretty good at collecting airport weather information and sending it, I have a challenge for those who would like to accept it. … You have several options to report the traffic. Our primary method of reporting will be via WINLINK as that is what we are practicing this month. You can report via WINLINK to EMA SEC Rob Macedo KD1CY and cc RI SEC Jeremy Taylor K1JST. VHF or HF WINLINK are preferred, but telnet is also an option. You may collect
Alternatively, You can attempt to join one of their voice nets…”
RI Section Manager, Nancy Austin, KC1NEK, passed her ATIS (airport weather) reports via a 60m voice net. New hams may not realize how easy it is to operate on 60m simply by dialing up from their 80m antenna set-up to 5.3305 USB (Channel 1).
The RI ARES HF net, held on the 3rd Tuesday at 7:30pm, might consider offering a 60m voice net.
For more information on RI ARES, please see https://RIARES.org