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North Florida Amateur Radio Club created to support Alachua County ARES(R) We are a DYNAMIC and VIBRANT amateur radio club involved in almost every aspect of this incredibly fun hobby, teaching and training as many people as we can, both to benefit them and to increase support for serving our Community through backup radio communications in times of need. JULY Section Newsletter Alachua County is ALL OVER it!! Great Job, Folks! https://arrl-nfl.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/00-QST-NFL-July-2022.pdf Primary Emergency Traffic Nets / North Florida Alachua County ARES(R) Net: Thursday evenings, 8PM 146.820 repeater Florida Phone Traffic Net, 7 AM 3940 kHz LSB Northern Florida ARES(R) Net, 8:30 AM, 3950 kHz LSB QFN- Florida CW Net - currently 7PM 7117 kHz (The listing on arrl-nfl.org is incorrect; the above is the correct information.) Northern Florida Phone Net 7:30 PM 3950 kHz L:SB Give them a try! The July SEC Training Assignment is to send a radiogram to Arc Thames W4CPD (Milton Florida, 32572, [email protected], or [email protected] ) either by VOICE Radiogram, or Winlink RRI-Radiogram (.txt) Form. (Both are quite easy to do and important skills, need I repeat?) Alachua County LEADS THE SECTION in compliance! Keep it coming!! You are the CHAMPS, Alachua County!!! Fantastic 2022 Field Day Our Best Ever!  Many thanks to the Region 3 MARC UNIT and District Chief Kevin Rulapaugh KE4NVI -- made that tower happen! Huge interoperability experience gains made as a result. Emergency Manager Grice, Coordinator Herding, and Fire Chief Theus -- Undersheriff DeCoursey and SHERIFF CLOVIS WATSON Jr all joined us! Craig Fugate's Incident Command Post a Big Hit! Leland Gallup's Golf Cart Huge! SO MANY TRAILERS!! (Brett, Amy, David, Gordon, Brett X2) Much better volunteer protection. Earl's Part 15 MESH worked FLAWLESSLY My Setup of LOGGING....No so much! Huge GOTA Station Success!! Dead 10M and 6M Saturday.... Emily's Fantastic Sunday Buffet! Setup was SLOW!! Ouch! -------------------------------- 80/40/20/15/10 Off Center Fed Dipole 40/20/15/10 Off Center Fed Sloping Vertical -- GREAT PERFORMANCE! GOTA 40/20/15/10 Off Center Fed Inv Vee 65' High 6Meter Ground Plane Vertical 60' High Dual Band VHF/UHF SHARES MARC Antenna (G5RV) FIVE 2.4 GHz Mesh Antennas 2 WIFI Bridges 8 Networked Laptops At least 6 Radio Systems, not counting our handheld command net. -------------------------------- Teardown was LIGHTNING! Averaging almost 32 Contacts Per Hour x 22 hours! Huge Thanks to our CW CREW led by David Fox NN4DF!! More operators: 18 vs 15 last year!! Many more Points: 26.8% Increase Year over Year!! Many more Contacts: 36.8% Increase Year Over Year! (In WORSE Band Conditions!!) Even more we can improve for NEXT YEAR!! 702 Total Contacts 2782 Operating Points 1390 Bonus Points 4172 Preliminary Points Total (We got almost every bonus point possible....) 80 Meters: 146 Contacts (including 13 Voice!! - Huckstep!) 40 Meters: 403 Contacts 20 Meters: 179 Contacts 15 Meters: 19 Contacts 10 Meters: 4 6 Meters: 24 GOTA: 37 Contacts!!!!! Including 3 Youth Contacts HUGE MEDIA COVERAGE!! (Hooray PIO Jim Bledsoe!) Many Thanks to Erica from TV20!! GREAT COVERAGE! (And she made her FIRST HAM QSO!) 4 pages of HOTWASH NOTES!! ARRL Submission Completed 6/28/22 (Emily & Gordon) NFL Newsletter Article Submitted 6/28/22 Time for Media THANK-YOU's!! Dignitary THANK-YOU's!! Served Agency THANK-YOU's!! Start Writing the AAR/IP!! FIELD DAY RADIO OPERATOR SCHEDULE IS APPENDIX EIGHT OF OUR INCIDENT ACTION PLAN: FIELD DAY INCIDENT ACTION PLAN Hooray for a ton of volunteers!! Draft IAP for 2022 EOC Location Capturing Field Day Bulletin - 100 points Addressing 2021 Improvement Plan Items Command Post / Administrative Packet Revised 2022 Tips for CW Field Day Revised 2022 Tips for PHONE Field Day Personal ICS211E To Record Gear You're Bringing Fire Rescue Alachua County Hosts Our Field Day at the EOC Location! NFARC Zoom Link(Used for all our online meetings and likel for hybrid meetings.) EXCELLENT MEDIA COVERAGE, Mostly Due to PIO Jim Bledsoe! Alachua County Commission Presentation https://alachua.granicus.com/player/clip/4769?view_id=8&redirect=true Craig Fugate TWITTER Alachua County News Publication https://alachuacounty.us/news/article/pages/Alachua-County-Amateur-Radio-Emergency-Services-Field-Day.aspx Alachua Chronicle: https://alachuachronicle.com/alachua-county-amateur-radio-emergency-services-field-day/ MORE TO COME!! GROUPS.IO: https://groups.io/g/NF4RC If you would like to join, please send me an email ([email protected]) and I'll send you out an "invitation." Email to subscribe yourself: [email protected] Alachua County ARES(R) Participation in NFL Section SEC Training Program & FEMA R4/R6 Exercise We blew the doors off!! Viewing Window For FEMA Reports
Latest Participants Recommended for Background/Badging: Reid Tillery K9RFT Dean Covey KV4RL Brett Wallace NH2KW Amy Woods WA4AMY Lorilyn Roberts KO4LBS Now waiting on the wheels of government to spin! If YOU would like to be qualified to serve our local County in communications in times of need, look at the requirements https://qsl.net/nf4rc/WelcomeToAlachuaCountyARES.pdf There are plenty of other ways to serve, but this gets you built into the County Response. ARRL National Convention 2022 Emergency Communications Track: TALKS GIVEN Amateur Radio & Disasters - M. Curtin Basic Voice Traffic - Curtin & Straughn Hands On ICS-213 Traffic - Curtin & Gallup & Straughn Data Comms - Gibby Emergency Antennas - Gibby & Curtin Emergency Power - McDow & Capehart Additional talk given Friday by Gordon KX4Z: Growing your ARES(R) Group CURRENT PROGRAM
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Our two digital antennas at base of Beatty Towers antenna installation. W4DFU-7/8/9
Art on top of Beatty Towers (164' up!)
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