Tom, N3WS, the EC for Washington and Green Counties, Pennsylvania circulated this. It is a very good and very short training on the differences and what they mean.
This video from the New England ARES Academy showed up in my feed this morning and it is worth reviewing. The subject is Tactical Voice Messaging. It discusses the difference between tactical and formal messages with some good examples.
I have added a permanent link to the Links of Interest above. Continue reading
A great news article linking the student amateur radio club at University of Scranton with scientific experiments:
University of Scranton, PA Amateur Radio Club gets a new antenna.
The Pennsylvania Keystone Chapter of The National Multiple Sclerosis Society completed another Glimcher Keystone Country Ride on July 15th and 16th through Centre, Clinton, Huntingdon, and Blair Counties in Central Pennsylvania. The ride is composed of two seventy five mile loops on each day. It starts at the Penn Stater Hotel in State College and goes south then back. On day two it goes north then back to the Penn Stater. About 100 riders participated in the event to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis research and support for victims of the disease. The ride has been conducted for 20+ years and one rider and his team, Rob Glimcher, has raised more than $2 million for the event during that time.
The Internet Archive has just added a significant archive relative to Amateur Radio and Communications.
The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications is a library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early communications. The DLARC is funded by a significant grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications, a private foundation, to create a digital library that documents, preserves, and provides open access to the history of this community.
This free resource combines archived digitized print materials, born-digital content, websites, oral histories, personal collections, and other related records and publications. The goals of the DLARC are both to document the history of amateur radio and to provide freely available educational resources for researchers, students, and the general public.
To contribute content for this project, email kay@archive.org
Links to the planning documents for the Fall 2021 SET are listed below. Continue reading
Information received from the ARRL
FCC Grants Temporary Waiver to Permit Higher Symbol Rate Data Transmissions for Hurricane Ida Traffic
Sunday, August 29, 2021
The FCC has granted an ARRL emergency request for a temporary waiver intended to facilitate relief communications in the wake of Hurricane Ida. The waiver was orally granted on Saturday, August 28, and immediately permitted amateur data transmissions related to Hurricane Ida traffic to employ a higher symbol rate for data transmissions than the current limit of 300 baud. Continue reading
The Nittany Amateur Radio Club is conducting Ham Exams on Saturday, May 1 in State College, PA. Space is limited due to the pandemic. Advance reservations are required, so please register as soon as possible to insure you will have one of the available spaces. Continue reading
Please consider reserving time in your calendar for participation in the below listed events. Planning is a continuous process given the COVID-19 quarantine. If any are canceled, we will let you know.
Please consider helping out with these events. We’ll provide more information as we get it.
Thank you.
Attempting to standardize amateur radio planning in Centre County with the Incident Command System I have tried to use ICS forms found on the Internet. There are many and there are many that are quite sophisticated. Some even operate as ‘books’. Entering recurring information will populate it to all the forms.
Unfortunately most of these forms have been very difficult to use. At least for me. To resolve this problem, I designed my own forms in Microsoft Word. Click on ‘Continue Reading’ to see more and find links to these forms. Continue reading