ALACHUA COUNTY ARES n North Florida Amateur Radio Club n GAINESVILLE AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY

FEBRUARY 2019 MEETING
AGENDA WITH ALL LINKS

Volunteers from all these wonderful, local amateur radio groups staff shelters in Alachua County during times of stress. Amateur Radio is a fascinating hobby, with over 700,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of others all over the world enjoying the diversity of this hobby. Hams may build and operate their own radios, experiment with satellite communications, participate in emergency services, or just meet friends over the radio. In the United States, all are licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after passing multiple choice tests that range from fairy easy (for the introductory Technician license) to rather complicated (the Amateur Extra Class license).

This hobby is built on volunteers! The Gator Amateur Radio Club, at the University of Florida, as well as ARES, conduct periodic classes to assist people in passing the license exams, and another group of hard-working volunteers provide at-cost examinations every other month in Gainesville.

Below are links of interest to persons curious about ham radio, and also stored information to assist our volunteers staffing shelters:
PHOTOS FROM EXERCISE
Access the 2019 Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Directory directly
SATURDAY
2019 Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference
Gainesville Florida, Feb 2/3
Santa Fe Amateur Radio Society / North Florida Amateur Radio Club
Example Link
0700 REGISTRATION BEGINS
0800 INTRODUCTION -- Gordon Gibby / Jeff Capehart / Ben Henley / Kevin Rulapaugh
0815 Volunteer Ham Radio Team Buiding that Maximizes All Volunteers
Joe Bassett (45 min)
0900 Using ICS Documents to Manage Large Deployments -- BEN HENLEY
0910 Team Splits & Intro to Full Scale Exercise Gordon Gibby
0930 BEGIN FIRST OPERATIONAL PERIOD OF FULL SCALE EXERCISE
Incident Briefing ICS-201
Radio Communications Plan ICS-205
ICS-205A
Medical Plan ICS-206
(Teams will finish shortly after 1210 and pack up and begin to return here)
DIFFICULTY OF EXERCISE

Way too Difficult | Difficult | Perfect | Easy | Way Too Easy
| 32% | 57% | 11% |

SATISFACTION WITH EXERCISE

Very Poor | Poor | Neutral | Good | Very Good
|  | 11% | 40% | 50%

1230 LUNCH & HOTWASH DISCUSSION
(Ham / Turkey Sandwiches / Chips $5)
Expect an evaluation page for you to fill out
1315 How to Plan, Create & Carry Out a Full Scale Exercise and BUILD YOUR GROUP!
Leland Gallup AA3YB 30 Minutes
1345 FEMA: Cascadia Rising Exercise Results & OREGON S.E.T.
Gordon Gibby KX4Z 15 Minutes
1400 Section Emergency Coordinator's Message: Hurricane Michael
Karl Martin KG4HBN 30 Minutes
BEGIN SPLIT SESSIONS
NOTE ROOM ASSIGNMENTS CAREFULLY

TIME | Main Conference R-1 | Downstars Dining R106 | Upstairs Dining R203
1430 45 min | Talk 101 Baptist Disaster Relief Services for Amateur Radio Volunteers Marvin Corbin | Talk 102 WIFI Shelter Bulletin System Gordon Gibby KX4Z | Talk 103 Intro to Publicity / PIO Scott Roberts KK4ECR Section PIO
1515 45 min | Talk 202 Moving Traffic & Training Volunteers in ARES nets PART ONE Joe Bassett W1WCN | Talk 201 MARC UNIT DEMO Kevin Rulapaugh KE4NVI (may be out or inside) | Talk 203 EMCOMM Computer Tips Part One Jeff Capehart W4UFL Alachua EC
1600 45 min | Talk 302 Moving Traffic & Training Volunteers in ARES Nets PART TWO Joe Bassett W1WCN | Talk 301 Hurricane Michael Experiences James Lea WX4TV | Talk 303 EMCOMM Computer Tips PART TWO Jeff Capehart W4UFL
1645 | DAY ONE WRAP UP & ANNOUNCEMENTS

SUNDAY
Doors will open at 9 AM for possible work with available mentors.
Main Sessions will begin at 12 Noon
PHOTOS FROM EXERCISE

| MAIN CONFERENCE | DOWNSTAIRS DINING | UPSTAIRS DINING
1000 | ARES CONNECT Jeff Capehart Alachua County EC & ARES CONNECT expert! |  |
1100 | STATE, TRAINING & INSURANCE ISSUES Ben Henley WCF SEC |  |
1200 90 min | Talk 403 1200-1300 Repeater Controller For Your Own Repeater ICS-CTRL Controller Gordon Gibby KX4Z 1300-1330 SOLAR POWER Gordon Gibby KX4Z | Session 401 HANDS ON Power Pole & Possibly DC Polarity Protection installed for your rig Karl Martin, John Troupe, Alvin Osmena | ROOM HA-105 Session 402 HANDS ON SOLDERING Wiring yoiur radio for Signalink / Digital Susan Halbert & Mike Ridlon
1330 90 min | Session 502 HANDS ON VHF / HF Go Box Building (may be outside) Stewart Reissener & Alvin Osmena (as needed) | ROOM HA-105 Session 501 HANDS ON AD HOC VHF ANTENNA BUILDING Susan Halbert & Alvin Osmena (as needed) | TALK 503 Tuning Duplexer with $110 Chinese Spectrum Analyzer Gordon Gibby KX4Z
1500 90 min | Session 601 HANDS ON WINLiNK TRAINING Gordon Gibby KX4Z & Additional Tutors BRING YOUR LAPTOP | Session 601 HANDS ON HF Antenna Deployment In a Disaster Zone Leland Gallup AA3YB Shannon Boal W4GLM | Session 603 ROOM HA-105 SOLDER SESSION BUILDING SOUND CARD DIGITAL SYSTEM Mike Ridlon Alven Osmena Joh Troupe
1630 30 min | Talk 703 Working Well with Your EOC Jeff Capehart W4UFL | TALK 701 Neighborhood HAM WATCH Gordon Gibby KX4Z | TALK 702 Teaching Ham Radio Courses using ARRL Slides Shannon Boal

1700 COURSE CERTIFICATES & GRADUATION PICTURE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON EMERGENCY HAM RADIO COMMUNICATIONS
Katrina Communications Failures
QST articles on Electromagnetic Pulse & the amateur
HOA & Apartment Antennas
JANUARY 2019 NFARC (ARES) MEETING
DIRECTORY of JAN2019 Meeting Documents
Jan 2019 meeting agenda
Information on GA ARES MEETING
Feb 2/3 Conference Information (ICS-201 format)
Feb 2/3 Conference Registrants
Reflections 2.0
DECEMBER NFARC (ARES) MEETING
AGENDA (includes links to everything)
NOVEMBER NFARC (ARES) MEETING
AGENDA (includes links to everything)
OCTOBER NFARC (ARES) MEETING
AGENDA (icludes links to everything)
SEPTEMBER NFARC (ARES) MEETING
TENTATIVE AGENDA SEPTEMBER MEETING
EOC Tower High
EOC Tower (Low)
Initiatives Carried Out by our Group/Members
ICS-201 (currrent version) for EXERCISE
ICS-205 (frequency chart) for EXERCISE
Getting All The Oars Pulling!
(Unfinished) CheapRepeater-HOW-TO
HOW-TO on the ICS Repeater Controller
Waccasassa Wildfire AAR/Improvement Plan
uBitx KX4Z External Relay DaughterBoard
An EXAMPLE of ARRL SLIDES for General Class Course
AUGUST NFARC (ARES) MEETING
AUGUST Meeting Agenda
Radiogram Practice ICS-205
Intro to the Arduino IDE
DOWNLOAD the Arduino IDE from this server
Shelter PassThru's Location Table
HF EOC Consensus Antenna Design Document
InstallationPackageForDTN
VHF/UHF Spectrum Analyzer
Spectrum Analyzer in Use
Pass High Spectrum
Pass Low Spectrum
JULY NFARC (ARES) MEETING
JULY meeting agenda
Group Total Assets / Skills
Alachua County Core Capabilities For This Year
Group Technician Class Antenna Photo
Neighborhood Ham Watch Pilot Brochure
ShelterWebUpLoadPractice
Uploading New Content (longer explanation)
Raspberry Pi Information
Inventory Equipment Management / Accountability
EOC Inventory Sheet For Assets
Donated HT-1000 Frequencies
Cowart's Electrical Box Pass Thru Plan
Pass Thru Measurements
Initial Installation Instructions
NOTE: NF4RC-10 is on 145.070. KX4Z-10 may possibly be reached by digipeating through W4DFU-8 on 145.030
JUNE NFARC (ARES) MEETING
JUNE meeting agenda
All Meeting Slides
CAT Transceiver Control Talk
Mercer Application
New Technician Question Pool
BACKGROUND HAM RADIO INFORMATION
Alachua County DOT Map
Alachua County Attractions
Amateur Radio FCC Band Limits
Alachua County (Draft) Comm Plan
ARES Field Manual
ARES 2015 Manual
ARRL RADIOGRAM
Cascadia Rising FEMA Exercise
COMT Pre Course Study Guide
EasyTerm Tutorial
FLDIGI Cheatsheet
Georgia Hospital Emergency Comm Plan
Katrina--Report
Lightning Protection
Marion County Hospital Emergency Comms Plan
NIFOG
North Florida Section Comm Plan
Radio Relay International Traffic Manual
Simplex Repeater User Manual
Soundmodem Configuration Information
SSTV Manual
Sound Card Interface Full Manual
TrafficNets List
WINLINK - Cheatsheet
WINLINK HF Primer
WINLINK without WINLINK SOFTWARE
WINLINK CheckLists
WINLINK - How PACLINK works

INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM BLANK FORMS

ICS - 213 MESSAGE FORM
ICS214 - ACTIVITY LOG
ICS309 - COMM LOG

MAY 2018 North Florida Amateur Radio Club Presentations
May Meeting (Tentative) Agenda
Meeting Slides as PDF
Meeting Slides -- PPT
SHELTER REFERENCE BOOK
D-RATS HANDOUT
Uploading New Content To Shelter Web Server
Baofeng Manual Programming
FILE DOWNLOADS (Not sure these will download.....)
CoffeeCup FTP Installer
D-RATS Installer (zipped)

MARCH 2018 North Florida Amateur Radio Club Presentations

MeetingAgenda

Emergency Symposium Newsletter Article (17Mbyte)

WILDFIRE ICS-201

WILDFIRE ICS-208 (Safety)

HOA & Apartment Antennas

EOC-HurricaneIrma-AfterActionReport / Improvement Plan

Routers -- "Network Address Translation"

Lightning Arrestors -- Making Them LabNLunch

WINLINK Proficiency Certification