[FADCA] Good Afternoon FADCA Members

[Royce, Philip]

Good Afternoon,

 

  As some of you know, I have been elected in as President of FADCA for
this year.  For the members that don't know me, I will give you a brief
history.  I'm a public servant, serving the State and my region with
interoperability solutions in radio communications and trainer of
specialized mutual aid communications equipment, and in my daytime work
I manage the communications systems and everything else of Alachua's 911
center and the communications needs of the county commission. I work
with Telco's(Sprint/ATT), Mux Networks, Mesh, Wans, Lans, Pans, 700,800
trunks A/D, Conventional VHF, UHF, P25, Astro25, OpenSky, Sat Comms.
Most systems you learn one year and have to learn something else the
next year because its obsolete.

 

  On the Amateur Radio side, I've served disaster services since the
early 1980s.  My mentor was W4SS(SK), <http://www.qsl.net/w4ss>  I
worked with Manny when I served Red Cross, and then he guided me on into
the public service side of disaster services and into Amateur Radio.  I
have played with packet radio since the commodore and coco and still
have my C64 modems somewhere. I primarily do Satellite, EME, RDF, SWL,
1.2 and Up and digital communications when I have time sometimes
field-day or a coordinated contest, and restore and collect 1930-1960s
communications equipment. My Shop
<http://forums.radioreference.com/members/ke4pwe-albums.html>  .

 

  We have many projects that we are looking at, one is real time data
and management, completion of the Statewide LAN connections and backbone
primarily in North Florida, and new interest in the digital modes of the
service so that we have people to mentor into strategic areas to assist
us in our efforts.   I'm definitely not going to say this will be done
in a year, some have worked on this for decades. But now I would like to
be more involved and maybe I have a few good ideas that will help this
along, There are a lot of one man shows in different areas and we need
to change that if possible to help them out and we do need to preserve
the knowledge of the many that are here, and mentor new people to assist
in the efforts.

 

   Anyone that receives this email, I have a simple request.  I would
like everyone that is interested in packet radio, our coordination body,
or anything involved in this group to email me with your suggestions,
ideas, or solutions for the following items below, you can pick just one
or all for comments:  On the last Friday of every month I will attempt
to post a status email of what we are doing.

I have a specific email address to send this all to, please don't send
it my ASO address in the header or your email will get lost, only listed
addresses make it  : My digital network email address is: NFDN at cox.net

 

 

1) Mapping of coordination data (in research presently)

2) Winlink Promotion and usage (in the works, need power points of all
packet promotion, winlink, aprs, digital modes, FADCA). SO look in your
computers, 

and see if you have archived power points or photo, slides ect and send
them to me, before April if possible:  NFDN at cox.net Have a hamfest
coming up email me!

3) Packet, where do we go from here?

4) State Lan Circuits(backbone) and infrastructure, preservation,
universal replacement, redundancy in case of disaster(new technology,
for old systems)

5) Ares, AREM services and DEC support for Winlink and Infrastructure

6) HamWatch, promotion and implementation (if you don't know what this
is drop a line to Bud, this is a great idea and it possible might save a
life or give a helping hand to someone in need)

7) Mentoring and preservation of knowledge of LANs, Packet, Winlink,
ROSE?, FPAC, and future networks

8) And one last thing item that I'm very fond of: Your software that you
use, old stuff, new stuff, what's your hex editor, emprom writer,
propagation software, plotting software, favorite packet or digital ware
anything that involves digital or development of our Lan circuits or
helps packet operators.. Make a list, can you share it, if it is paid
for where do you get it, what's the web address.  What do you like about
it? If you can share it, send it to me, I have a web server to store and
share:. NFDN at cox.net

(my short list: Microsoft Portrait use for remote radio, HRD, WinPack,
Paclink, AirMail, AGW, MixW, CRT remote and server, UI-VIEW, WIRES-II,
and a VOIP server to radio via Ventrilo, experimental. Link list will be
on yahoo NFDN in the next few weeks)

 

Lastly I would like to thank all of the people that have put so much
effort into making these networks and solutions happen, some have moved
on, some have past away and will be missed, some are here and want a
break and need new people to help them out.  

 

Thank you all and 73,

 

KE4PWE - ARRL NFTS, OES

ALACHUA FPAC Gateway 145.570 KE4PWE-8,9 352375

                    Backup Lan      145.030 (temp freq: 145.030 until
backbone for Marion EMCOMM) 

ALACHUA RMS Access:    145.030 KE4PWE-10

WA4ET DXC                       145.090

W4UFL APRS                     144.390

 

View us in Real-time
<http://aprs.fi/?addr=gainesville%2C%20florida&mt=m&z=11&timerange=3600>


 

See I tried to make it short...HIHI

 

 

Communications interoperability is the ability of public safety agencies
to talk across disciplines and jurisdictions via radio communications
systems, exchanging voice and/or data with one another on demand, in
real time, when needed, and as authorized.

"SAFECOM"