From acharland182 at gmail.com  Wed Jul 10 08:30:46 2024
From: acharland182 at gmail.com (Andrew Charland)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:30:46 -0400
Subject: [CALV-AUXCOMM] Wednesday Lunch
Message-ID: <CAKHsO=3MwOySmYHETkG_6zWb_ymLYeHmGUNOyz8_EwvvNZ4OeA@mail.gmail.com>

3 Brothers in Prince Frederick today folks. 11:30.

Also... keep an eye on temps. NWS is saying a heat index up to 110 is
possible. If you're outdoors, don't let the heat sneak up on you

Andy
KC3WRX

From n3ae at comcast.net  Sat Jul 13 14:27:34 2024
From: n3ae at comcast.net (Shawn Donley)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:27:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [CALV-AUXCOMM] Calvert AUXCOMM - Thursday July 18
Message-ID: <1101526196.1610239.1720895254138@connect.xfinity.com>

All,
 
Our next "get together" is Thursday July 18 at 7:00PM.
 
Please check your email between now and then for some additional information regarding July 18.
 
73
N3AE
Calvert EC

From n3ae at comcast.net  Wed Jul 17 15:03:06 2024
From: n3ae at comcast.net (Shawn Donley)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:03:06 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [CALV-AUXCOMM] Calvert AUXCOMM - NO IN-PERSON MEETING - DEPLOYMENT
 PRACTICE INSTEAD
Message-ID: <1314198847.1351433.1721242986361@connect.xfinity.com>

Calvert AUXCOMM Members,
 
OK, here's the surprise I've been promising.
 
We are going to skip the in-person meeting on Thursday, July 18 and have a PRACTICE DEPLOYMENT on FRIDAY instead.
 
I'd like everyone to grab their go-kits on FRIDAY EVENING, July 19, set up and check into a net on the CARA repeater system at 7:00pm local.  You can "deploy" anywhere you like, including your back yard, deck, or any other place where you can set up your gear without upsetting neighbors, the public or the constabulary. 
 
Honor system...no home stations..  Think of this as an exercise deployment to some site within the county like a shelter or other designated operating area,  minus the actual drive to that location.
 
Why Friday and not Thursday ... better WX forecast....no storms and cooler.
 
While not the intent for this exercise, mobile rigs or HT's are acceptable provided that they are connected to an efficient antenna (j-pole, Yagi, Co-linear, etc) erected specifically for the exercise.  No rubber ducks or using your normal vehicle-mounted antenna.  I'm sure you get the intent.
 
Operating using emergency power (generator or battery) is encouraged.
 
Depending upon the capabilities of the check-in stations and time available, we may also practice sending MT63-2000L digital messages via the CARA repeater and Winlink P2P messages using the K3CAL-1 digipeater on 145.070 MHz, so plan accordingly.
 
If you are motivated, go ahead and set up HF capability as well but that's entirely optional for this exercise.
 
During the net we will ask for a description of your setup and your location.  We will also run through the check-in list and ask you to transmit on 146.985 SIMPLEX (the output frequency of the 2M repeater), so set that up in your memory channel or remember how to use the Reverse switch on your rig (swaps RX and TX frequencies).   Then we will run through the check-in list again to find out who can hear who on 146.985 simplex.  
 
Finally, please take a picture of your setup and send to calv-ares at mailman.qth.net mailto:calv-ares at mailman.qth.net or  n3ae at comcast.net mailto:n3ae at comcast.net after the exercise.  Our ARES reflector may not like attachments greater than 3MB so skip the high resolution photos.
 
Thanks and remember safety is #1.  Don't set up under powerlines or in heavily trafficked areas. 
 
73
N3AE
Calvert EC
 
 
 
 
 

From k3uga at comcast.net  Wed Jul 17 16:26:13 2024
From: k3uga at comcast.net (Jim Tetlow)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:26:13 -0400
Subject: [CALV-AUXCOMM] Calvert AUXCOMM - NO IN-PERSON MEETING -
	DEPLOYMENT PRACTICE INSTEAD
In-Reply-To: <1314198847.1351433.1721242986361@connect.xfinity.com>
References: <1314198847.1351433.1721242986361@connect.xfinity.com>
Message-ID: <FFBB698C-4A50-4FCD-9EEF-AEE6F955C33B@comcast.net>

Shawn just saw your email and it looks a fun meeting / simulation you are setting up. 
Which means you have auxcom members with GOBOXES ! Boy, that is a refreshing change after all these years! Good luck with your meeting, I hope it turns out well. 
I was thinking when you mentioned ?send photos of your station? low resolution ?..
Do you remember Zello? The phone emergency responders app for cell pnones.
I haven?t used it for 5-6 years, but used it regularly with kb3ran and k6cuj as a group we could send phone generated photos amongst us. It is a tool and a thought, maybe you might revive it?
        
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Zello / CARA lunch about 5 year ago in Lusby developing member send list. 
Any good luck, all my go kits and generator for marathon events are gone or I would join in.

Sent from my iPad
Good Health and 73
Jim Tetlow, 
k3uga at comcast.net


On Jul 17, 2024, at 15:03, Shawn Donley via CALV-ARES <calv-ares at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

?Calvert AUXCOMM Members,

OK, here's the surprise I've been promising.

We are going to skip the in-person meeting on Thursday, July 18 and have a PRACTICE DEPLOYMENT on FRIDAY instead.

I'd like everyone to grab their go-kits on FRIDAY EVENING, July 19, set up and check into a net on the CARA repeater system at 7:00pm local.  You can "deploy" anywhere you like, including your back yard, deck, or any other place where you can set up your gear without upsetting neighbors, the public or the constabulary.

Honor system...no home stations..  Think of this as an exercise deployment to some site within the county like a shelter or other designated operating area,  minus the actual drive to that location.

Why Friday and not Thursday ... better WX forecast....no storms and cooler.

While not the intent for this exercise, mobile rigs or HT's are acceptable provided that they are connected to an efficient antenna (j-pole, Yagi, Co-linear, etc) erected specifically for the exercise.  No rubber ducks or using your normal vehicle-mounted antenna.  I'm sure you get the intent.

Operating using emergency power (generator or battery) is encouraged.

Depending upon the capabilities of the check-in stations and time available, we may also practice sending MT63-2000L digital messages via the CARA repeater and Winlink P2P messages using the K3CAL-1 digipeater on 145.070 MHz, so plan accordingly.

If you are motivated, go ahead and set up HF capability as well but that's entirely optional for this exercise.

During the net we will ask for a description of your setup and your location.  We will also run through the check-in list and ask you to transmit on 146.985 SIMPLEX (the output frequency of the 2M repeater), so set that up in your memory channel or remember how to use the Reverse switch on your rig (swaps RX and TX frequencies).   Then we will run through the check-in list again to find out who can hear who on 146.985 simplex.  

Finally, please take a picture of your setup and send to calv-ares at mailman.qth.net mailto:calv-ares at mailman.qth.net or  n3ae at comcast.net mailto:n3ae at comcast.net after the exercise.  Our ARES reflector may not like attachments greater than 3MB so skip the high resolution photos.

Thanks and remember safety is #1.  Don't set up under powerlines or in heavily trafficked areas.

73
N3AE
Calvert EC





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From n3ae at comcast.net  Thu Jul 18 13:03:41 2024
From: n3ae at comcast.net (Shawn Donley)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:03:41 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [CALV-AUXCOMM] Reminder - NO AUXCOMM MEETING TONIGHT - READ EMAIL
In-Reply-To: <1314198847.1351433.1721242986361@connect.xfinity.com>
References: <1314198847.1351433.1721242986361@connect.xfinity.com>
Message-ID: <903938292.2038543.1721322221389@connect.xfinity.com>

Just a friendly reminder  ... see info below.


> Calvert AUXCOMM Members,
>  
> OK, here's the surprise I've been promising.
>  
> We are going to skip the in-person meeting on Thursday, July 18 and have a PRACTICE DEPLOYMENT on FRIDAY instead.
>  
> I'd like everyone to grab their go-kits on FRIDAY EVENING, July 19, set up and check into a net on the CARA repeater system at 7:00pm local.  You can "deploy" anywhere you like, including your back yard, deck, or any other place where you can set up your gear without upsetting neighbors, the public or the constabulary. 
>  
> Honor system...no home stations..  Think of this as an exercise deployment to some site within the county like a shelter or other designated operating area,  minus the actual drive to that location.
>  
> Why Friday and not Thursday ... better WX forecast....no storms and cooler.
>  
> While not the intent for this exercise, mobile rigs or HT's are acceptable provided that they are connected to an efficient antenna (j-pole, Yagi, Co-linear, etc) erected specifically for the exercise.  No rubber ducks or using your normal vehicle-mounted antenna.  I'm sure you get the intent.
>  
> Operating using emergency power (generator or battery) is encouraged.
>  
> Depending upon the capabilities of the check-in stations and time available, we may also practice sending MT63-2000L digital messages via the CARA repeater and Winlink P2P messages using the K3CAL-1 digipeater on 145.070 MHz, so plan accordingly.
>  
> If you are motivated, go ahead and set up HF capability as well but that's entirely optional for this exercise.
>  
> During the net we will ask for a description of your setup and your location.  We will also run through the check-in list and ask you to transmit on 146.985 SIMPLEX (the output frequency of the 2M repeater), so set that up in your memory channel or remember how to use the Reverse switch on your rig (swaps RX and TX frequencies).   Then we will run through the check-in list again to find out who can hear who on 146.985 simplex.  
>  
> Finally, please take a picture of your setup and send to calv-ares at mailman.qth.net mailto:calv-ares at mailman.qth.net or  n3ae at comcast.net mailto:n3ae at comcast.net after the exercise.  Our ARES reflector may not like attachments greater than 3MB so skip the high resolution photos.
>  
> Thanks and remember safety is #1.  Don't set up under powerlines or in heavily trafficked areas. 
>  
> 73
> N3AE
> Calvert EC
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> ______________________________________________________________
> Visit us on the web: https://ares.k3cal.org
> 
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> 
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From kb3vle at gmail.com  Fri Jul 19 08:07:45 2024
From: kb3vle at gmail.com (Wade Mahaffey)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:07:45 -0400
Subject: [CALV-AUXCOMM] MDEM SAL increase for Global Microsoft outage.
Message-ID: <CAJbuh9=Uu9CYeeCVofMPOoijJbnKguZ4=rw2hpiSEPrTeTeiJA@mail.gmail.com>

"We have activated the State Emergency Operations Center in response to the
statewide Microsoft Outage.

MDEM has increased the State Activation Level (SAL) from NORMAL to PARTIAL
effective at 8:00 a.m. today, Friday July 19, 2024."
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From acharland182 at gmail.com  Fri Jul 19 09:50:29 2024
From: acharland182 at gmail.com (Andrew Charland)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:50:29 -0400
Subject: [CALV-AUXCOMM] Calvert AUXCOMM - NO IN-PERSON MEETING -
 DEPLOYMENT PRACTICE INSTEAD
In-Reply-To: <FFBB698C-4A50-4FCD-9EEF-AEE6F955C33B@comcast.net>
References: <1314198847.1351433.1721242986361@connect.xfinity.com>
	<FFBB698C-4A50-4FCD-9EEF-AEE6F955C33B@comcast.net>
Message-ID: <CAKHsO=3VK7-zQrPyuC_cSrHUxDeHdiF8Gkg7k-5jvhRwPwSMSg@mail.gmail.com>

Forecast is looking good for this evening folks. Hope to hear you on the
net.

Andy
KC3WRX

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 16:26 Jim Tetlow via CALV-ARES <
calv-ares at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Shawn just saw your email and it looks a fun meeting / simulation you are
> setting up.
> Which means you have auxcom members with GOBOXES ! Boy, that is a
> refreshing change after all these years! Good luck with your meeting, I
> hope it turns out well.
> I was thinking when you mentioned ?send photos of your station? low
> resolution ?..
> Do you remember Zello? The phone emergency responders app for cell pnones.
> I haven?t used it for 5-6 years, but used it regularly with kb3ran and
> k6cuj as a group we could send phone generated photos amongst us. It is a
> tool and a thought, maybe you might revive it?
>
>
> Zello / CARA lunch about 5 year ago in Lusby developing member send list.
> Any good luck, all my go kits and generator for marathon events are gone
> or I would join in.
>
> Sent from my iPad
> Good Health and 73
> Jim Tetlow,
> k3uga at comcast.net
>
>
> On Jul 17, 2024, at 15:03, Shawn Donley via CALV-ARES <
> calv-ares at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
> ?Calvert AUXCOMM Members,
>
> OK, here's the surprise I've been promising.
>
> We are going to skip the in-person meeting on Thursday, July 18 and have a
> PRACTICE DEPLOYMENT on FRIDAY instead.
>
> I'd like everyone to grab their go-kits on FRIDAY EVENING, July 19, set up
> and check into a net on the CARA repeater system at 7:00pm local.  You can
> "deploy" anywhere you like, including your back yard, deck, or any other
> place where you can set up your gear without upsetting neighbors, the
> public or the constabulary.
>
> Honor system...no home stations..  Think of this as an exercise deployment
> to some site within the county like a shelter or other designated operating
> area,  minus the actual drive to that location.
>
> Why Friday and not Thursday ... better WX forecast....no storms and cooler.
>
> While not the intent for this exercise, mobile rigs or HT's are acceptable
> provided that they are connected to an efficient antenna (j-pole, Yagi,
> Co-linear, etc) erected specifically for the exercise.  No rubber ducks or
> using your normal vehicle-mounted antenna.  I'm sure you get the intent.
>
> Operating using emergency power (generator or battery) is encouraged.
>
> Depending upon the capabilities of the check-in stations and time
> available, we may also practice sending MT63-2000L digital messages via the
> CARA repeater and Winlink P2P messages using the K3CAL-1 digipeater on
> 145.070 MHz, so plan accordingly.
>
> If you are motivated, go ahead and set up HF capability as well but that's
> entirely optional for this exercise.
>
> During the net we will ask for a description of your setup and your
> location.  We will also run through the check-in list and ask you to
> transmit on 146.985 SIMPLEX (the output frequency of the 2M repeater), so
> set that up in your memory channel or remember how to use the Reverse
> switch on your rig (swaps RX and TX frequencies).   Then we will run
> through the check-in list again to find out who can hear who on 146.985
> simplex.
>
> Finally, please take a picture of your setup and send to
> calv-ares at mailman.qth.net mailto:calv-ares at mailman.qth.net or
> n3ae at comcast.net mailto:n3ae at comcast.net after the exercise.  Our ARES
> reflector may not like attachments greater than 3MB so skip the high
> resolution photos.
>
> Thanks and remember safety is #1.  Don't set up under powerlines or in
> heavily trafficked areas.
>
> 73
> N3AE
> Calvert EC
>
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> Visit us on the web: https://ares.k3cal.org
>
> CALV-ARES mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/calv-ares
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:CALV-ARES at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> ______________________________________________________________
> Visit us on the web: https://ares.k3cal.org
>
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> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/calv-ares
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
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>
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From acharland182 at gmail.com  Fri Jul 19 15:46:30 2024
From: acharland182 at gmail.com (Andrew Charland)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 15:46:30 -0400
Subject: [CALV-AUXCOMM] Practice Deployment
Message-ID: <CAKHsO=3054sxDNxrzk67Yhz-Hu8Lrq8SGb74f8wqQAKUFpYDOA@mail.gmail.com>



