Posted for Steve Waterman and Roy Walker
Steve Waterman from the Amateur Radio Safety Foundation called and asked me to put the word out to Texas RACES members and ARES not to do practice non-essential transmissions on RMS Gateway HF channels for a few days. They want to keep the channels clear for traffic to RMS Stations like N5TW in Georgetown for the next few days
Regards,
Roy Walker - ASRO
WA5YZD
Austin, TX
73 Dallas N4DDM
Whatever you do, don’t fall victim to “paralysis by analysis.” Go ahead and
buy/build one and start tinkering with it. This is a learn-by-doing hobby.
No politician or scholar assured your freedoms.
A Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Airman, or Guardian did!
Thanks for the head’s up.
What’s the timeline on “a few days”? TCARES has a planned Simulated Emergency Test on Saturday, October 8th that has an HF Winlink component. The plan involves reaching RMS stations surrounding Austin. Will they be clear by the 8th?
Thanks,
Glenn
W5MTR
So far, traffic has been light and I suspect that traffic will be minimal by then. I can certainly setup a separate radio on a 40M frequency at that time to support your exercise.
Tom N5TW
That would be a question for Roy Walker…
I’ve added Roy to this email…
73 Dallas N4DDM
Whatever you do, don’t fall victim to “paralysis by analysis.” Go ahead and
buy/build one and start tinkering with it. This is a learn-by-doing hobby.
No politician or scholar assured your freedoms.
A Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Airman, or Guardian did!
So far, traffic has been light and I suspect that traffic will be minimal by then. I can certainly setup a separate radio on a 40M frequency at that time to support your exercise.
Tom N5TW
Glen, TCARES, and FYI to Roy,
As I told Roy in a separate email… Since he didn’t state how many days I picked a week for the notice I posted on http://www.arrlstx.org… The website will automatically remove the Winlink Radio Channels article next Friday unless Roy or somebody above my paygrade tells me to extend it… They could also tell me to delete it early…
If the VHF/UHF ARCHES stations in the Austin area hospitals were not in such poor condition they could be used for most of the traffic… The training is virtually the same… There are new laptops waiting to be set up and deployed into the hospitals…
Plus putting all that traffic on VHF/UHF keeps it off the HF bands…
It also opens the training to Technicians as they have full privileges on VHF where it takes a General or better to be a Control Operator on HF… So in short, you 7X your workforce…
THUMP… (Sound of me jumping off my soapbox)…
73 Dallas N4DDM
Whatever you do, don’t fall victim to “paralysis by analysis.” Go ahead and
buy/build one and start tinkering with it. This is a learn-by-doing hobby.
No politician or scholar assured your freedoms.
A Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Airman, or Guardian did!
Thanks for the head’s up.
What’s the timeline on “a few days”? TCARES has a planned Simulated Emergency Test on Saturday, October 8th that has an HF Winlink component. The plan involves reaching RMS stations surrounding Austin. Will they be clear by the 8th?
Thanks,
Glenn
W5MTR