Field Day: Red Cross Message Bonus Tactical Winlink Addresses

STXARES
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Field Day Reminder:

As I understand the rules you can get up to 100 bonus points 10 per message:

Rule: “ 7.3.6. Message Handling: 10 points for each formal message …” you must use RF.

Red Cross Winlink Tactical addresses that are valid in Texas for points are

TXRCAUS-DST
TXRCAUSDSTCM
TXRCHOU-DST

in addition the Winlink Thursday EMCOMM team is accepting messages from Texas with tactical address ETO-06

Note the “o” and the 0. This maps to our FEMA region number.

If you intend to send a message to ETO-06 then please follow attached instructions.

Best

Kevin, KF5FUZ

Disaster Services Technology

American Red Cross

(attachments)

ETO Winlink FD-2021 v1.5.pdf (119 KB)

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Thanks for the note to Kevin,

I tried for about five hours to make an VARA HF connection and it just was not there from my location.

73’s

Dick
KC0ZDB

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Dick thanks for the email - We were able to send all messages from winlink.

Sorry to hear the trouble you had with Vara-hf. The band conditions were not the best.

We send your messages using Packet

73’s
Ron Hambric
EC Brazos Co ARES