From glenn at arwolfpack.com Wed Jun 1 07:13:02 2022 From: glenn at arwolfpack.com (glenn at arwolfpack.com) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 06:13:02 -0500 Subject: [PBARC] REMINDER: Exercise is active Message-ID: <02f301d875a8$8fb7c2d0$af274870$@arwolfpack.com> There is an active exercise taking place. If you haven't already already please send a winlink message (either by radio or telnet). Thanks, Glenn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From glenn at arwolfpack.com Wed Jun 1 07:15:32 2022 From: glenn at arwolfpack.com (glenn at arwolfpack.com) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 06:15:32 -0500 Subject: [PBARC] for the exercise: Exercise Exercise Exercise Message-ID: <030501d875a8$e91654e0$bb42fea0$@arwolfpack.com> PLEASE SEND TO ALL ARKANSAS ARES/SHARES MEMBERSHIP, ANYONE WORKING WITH WINLINK All, Below are the Winlink instructions for the FEMA RECCWG Region 4 & Region 6 May 31-June 1 Communications Outage Exercise. In addition to Winlink (SHARES and amateur radio) providing a Field Situation Report with ?ground Truth? information over VHF/UHF/HF radio or Telnet, FYI, the following will also be exercised by the various States in these two Regions with FEMA: FNARS (FEMA National Emergency Radio System), NAWAS (National Warning System), MSAT G2 (Multi-State Satellite talk groups), Multi-State linking of P25 Trunking Networks. The Task for Winlink is directed and simple: Below is the starting scenario for this May 31- June 1 exercise. The cities circled on the attached map will have a ?communications outage.? However, they will need ?ground truth? information from everywhere within these two FEMA Regions from the users of the Winlink Radio Email Network System, regardless of location within the Regions, or the reasons for the outages. There are two separate set of instructions for input data. If you are NOT in these affected metropolitan areas, you may configure and report specific configuration for the Field Situation Report per the instructions below. If you ARE located within these affected metropolitan areas, you are to report your outages on the Field Situation Report per the instructions below. Cyber Attacked Cities: Charlotte, NC Dallas, TX Miami, FL Little Rock, AR For the Winlink portion of this FEMA R4-R6 Communications Outage Exercise, there are two groups participating: - CISA SHARES Winlink from member agencies & other users within these two FEMA Regions over the DHS Winlink SHARES HF/VHF Network. - Amateur Radio Winlink from any source with a proper license within these two FEMA Regions sending the data over the HF/VHF/UHF Amateur Spectrum. If you have no radio and are not within one of these affected metro areas, you may use Telnet if you wish. For the Amateur Radio Community, I am to leave the further distribution of this information to those copied as leaders over others within their span of control. The further distribution of this instruction is a part of the exercise. Please use whatever resources you have available. Resulting data from the Winlink Field Situation Report will be accumulated and shown to the appropriate recipients as a spreadsheet item (via KML & CSV) for further use by anyone wishing to provide a dashboard, and visually to the named recipients as a mapped item in Winlink Express. The resulting list of exercise participants will be provided via a FORM 309. Below are the instructions for participants. - DATE and TIME of Exercise: Tuesday evening, May 31st, from 6:00 PM EDT until 4:00 PM EDT Wednesday afternoon, June 1st. - Please, no telnet from areas where communications outage problems are shown to exist (Charlotte, Dallas, Miami, Little Rock). - Message to send: Winlink standard Template, Field Situation Report - Please avoid requesting acknowledgement requests, either manually or automatically. How to fill out the Field Situation Report: 1. Open Winlink Express (insure you have a most recent version, ie. 1.6.4 or higher, Template Version 1.0.193.0 or higher.) * 2. Open "New Message" form. (First ICON in menu). 3. On New Message Form, look for ?Select Template? menu. Choose ?Select Template.? 4. Double click on "Standard Templates" 5. Choose "Mapping GIS Forms." 6. Choose ?Field Situation Report.txt? 7. Your browser should open with the HTML Form. 8. If you are NOT in one of the AFFECTED areas, fill out the form per info below: a. PRECEDENCE (R) Routine b. Date Time, Task as 1.0. c. To: NCS415; NCS396; NNE6EM (separate addresses with semi-colon). d. On Form: #1: NO. #2. your City, County, State, and Territory put either FEMA R4 (TN, KY, MS, FL, GA, AL, NC, SC) or FEMA R6 (TX, AR, LA, NM, OK). #3Put in Coordinates using degree decimal format, DD.DDDD . Example: LAT: 36.0703 LON: -86.8241, which is the correct format. (If you cannot provide coordinates per above, then put in your Grid Square, and they will be approximated from your Winlink Express settings.) Remember that Western hemisphere longitude is a negative number! Very IMPORTANT! Incorrect format would be LAT: 36? 4?13?N LON: 86? 49? 27?W Put in your Grid Square. #4. YES #5. YES #6. YES #7. YES #8. YES #9. YES #10.YES #11.YES #12. Please state, ?EXERCISE, EXERCISE EXERCISE" #13 Name, call sign. If any of the above conditions are actually out of service, please follow this instruction, regardless. 9. If you ARE in one of the AFFECTED areas (i.e. Charlotte, Dallas, Miami, Little Rock), then please fill out the Field Situation Report per below: a. PRECEDENCE (P) Priority b. Date Time, Task as 1.0. c. To: NCS415; NCS396; NNE6EM (separate addresses with semi-colon). d. On Form: #1: NO. #2. your City, County, State, and for ?Territory" put either FEMA R4 (TN, KY, MS, FL, GA, AL, NC, SC) or FEMA R6 (TX, AR, LA, NM, OK). #3. Put in Coordinates using decimal format . Example: LAT: 36.0703 LON: -86.8241, which is the correct format. Very IMPORTANT!? (If you cannot provide coordinates per above, then put in your Grid Square, and they will be approximated from your Winlink Express settings.) Remember that Western hemisphere longitude is a negative number! Very IMPORTANT! Incorrect format would be LAT: 36? 4?13?N LON: 86? 49? 27?W Put in your Grid Square. #4. NO POTS or VOIP #5. NO #6. YES #7. YES #8. YES #9. YES #10. NO #11. YES #12. Please state, ?EXERCISE, EXERCISE EXERCISE" #13 Name, call sign, cell number (optional) 10. Check your information and then ?submit" the form. 11. If not done automatically, then close your browser. 12. Post the message to the Winlink Express Outbox. 13. Send Message with whatever mode you choose! If you are not in one of the affected areas, you may decide to use Telnet Winlink. In a "real life situation," you would always want to use Telnet if it is available in order to leave the precious RF spectrum for those in affected areas who have no other choice, However, for this exercise, do what you wish since this is for practicing your ability to use Winlink in an emergency condition. Thanks much, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From N5MNX at outlook.com Wed Jun 1 08:15:44 2022 From: N5MNX at outlook.com (JJ Knight) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 12:15:44 +0000 Subject: [PBARC] for the exercise: Exercise Exercise Exercise In-Reply-To: <030501d875a8$e91654e0$bb42fea0$@arwolfpack.com> References: <030501d875a8$e91654e0$bb42fea0$@arwolfpack.com> Message-ID: Digipeater Node: N5MNX-3 is up during the exercise today if anyone wants to try bouncing a message thru it on VARA FM MODE @ 145.770Mhz. JJ N5MNX From: pbarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of glenn at arwolfpack.com Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 6:16 AM To: PBARC Reflector Subject: [PBARC] for the exercise: Exercise Exercise Exercise PLEASE SEND TO ALL ARKANSAS ARES/SHARES MEMBERSHIP, ANYONE WORKING WITH WINLINK All, Below are the Winlink instructions for the FEMA RECCWG Region 4 & Region 6 May 31-June 1 Communications Outage Exercise. In addition to Winlink (SHARES and amateur radio) providing a Field Situation Report with ?ground Truth? information over VHF/UHF/HF radio or Telnet, FYI, the following will also be exercised by the various States in these two Regions with FEMA: FNARS (FEMA National Emergency Radio System), NAWAS (National Warning System), MSAT G2 (Multi-State Satellite talk groups), Multi-State linking of P25 Trunking Networks. The Task for Winlink is directed and simple: Below is the starting scenario for this May 31- June 1 exercise. The cities circled on the attached map will have a ?communications outage.? However, they will need ?ground truth? information from everywhere within these two FEMA Regions from the users of the Winlink Radio Email Network System, regardless of location within the Regions, or the reasons for the outages. There are two separate set of instructions for input data. If you are NOT in these affected metropolitan areas, you may configure and report specific configuration for the Field Situation Report per the instructions below. If you ARE located within these affected metropolitan areas, you are to report your outages on the Field Situation Report per the instructions below. Cyber Attacked Cities: Charlotte, NC Dallas, TX Miami, FL Little Rock, AR For the Winlink portion of this FEMA R4-R6 Communications Outage Exercise, there are two groups participating: - CISA SHARES Winlink from member agencies & other users within these two FEMA Regions over the DHS Winlink SHARES HF/VHF Network. - Amateur Radio Winlink from any source with a proper license within these two FEMA Regions sending the data over the HF/VHF/UHF Amateur Spectrum. If you have no radio and are not within one of these affected metro areas, you may use Telnet if you wish. For the Amateur Radio Community, I am to leave the further distribution of this information to those copied as leaders over others within their span of control. The further distribution of this instruction is a part of the exercise. Please use whatever resources you have available. Resulting data from the Winlink Field Situation Report will be accumulated and shown to the appropriate recipients as a spreadsheet item (via KML & CSV) for further use by anyone wishing to provide a dashboard, and visually to the named recipients as a mapped item in Winlink Express. The resulting list of exercise participants will be provided via a FORM 309. Below are the instructions for participants. - DATE and TIME of Exercise: Tuesday evening, May 31st, from 6:00 PM EDT until 4:00 PM EDT Wednesday afternoon, June 1st. - Please, no telnet from areas where communications outage problems are shown to exist (Charlotte, Dallas, Miami, Little Rock). - Message to send: Winlink standard Template, Field Situation Report - Please avoid requesting acknowledgement requests, either manually or automatically. How to fill out the Field Situation Report: 1. Open Winlink Express (insure you have a most recent version, ie. 1.6.4 or higher, Template Version 1.0.193.0 or higher.) * 2. Open "New Message" form. (First ICON in menu). 3. On New Message Form, look for ?Select Template? menu. Choose ?Select Template.? 4. Double click on "Standard Templates" 5. Choose "Mapping GIS Forms." 6. Choose ?Field Situation Report.txt? 7. Your browser should open with the HTML Form. 8. If you are NOT in one of the AFFECTED areas, fill out the form per info below: a. PRECEDENCE (R) Routine b. Date Time, Task as 1.0. c. To: NCS415; NCS396; NNE6EM (separate addresses with semi-colon). d. On Form: #1: NO. #2. your City, County, State, and Territory put either FEMA R4 (TN, KY, MS, FL, GA, AL, NC, SC) or FEMA R6 (TX, AR, LA, NM, OK). #3Put in Coordinates using degree decimal format, DD.DDDD . Example: LAT: 36.0703 LON: -86.8241, which is the correct format. (If you cannot provide coordinates per above, then put in your Grid Square, and they will be approximated from your Winlink Express settings.) Remember that Western hemisphere longitude is a negative number! Very IMPORTANT! Incorrect format would be LAT: 36? 4?13?N LON: 86? 49? 27?W Put in your Grid Square. #4. YES #5. YES #6. YES #7. YES #8. YES #9. YES #10.YES #11.YES #12. Please state, ?EXERCISE, EXERCISE EXERCISE" #13 Name, call sign. If any of the above conditions are actually out of service, please follow this instruction, regardless. 9. If you ARE in one of the AFFECTED areas (i.e. Charlotte, Dallas, Miami, Little Rock), then please fill out the Field Situation Report per below: a. PRECEDENCE (P) Priority b. Date Time, Task as 1.0. c. To: NCS415; NCS396; NNE6EM (separate addresses with semi-colon). d. On Form: #1: NO. #2. your City, County, State, and for ?Territory" put either FEMA R4 (TN, KY, MS, FL, GA, AL, NC, SC) or FEMA R6 (TX, AR, LA, NM, OK). #3. Put in Coordinates using decimal format . Example: LAT: 36.0703 LON: -86.8241, which is the correct format. Very IMPORTANT!? (If you cannot provide coordinates per above, then put in your Grid Square, and they will be approximated from your Winlink Express settings.) Remember that Western hemisphere longitude is a negative number! Very IMPORTANT! Incorrect format would be LAT: 36? 4?13?N LON: 86? 49? 27?W Put in your Grid Square. #4. NO POTS or VOIP #5. NO #6. YES #7. YES #8. YES #9. YES #10. NO #11. YES #12. Please state, ?EXERCISE, EXERCISE EXERCISE" #13 Name, call sign, cell number (optional) 10. Check your information and then ?submit" the form. 11. If not done automatically, then close your browser. 12. Post the message to the Winlink Express Outbox. 13. Send Message with whatever mode you choose! If you are not in one of the affected areas, you may decide to use Telnet Winlink. In a "real life situation," you would always want to use Telnet if it is available in order to leave the precious RF spectrum for those in affected areas who have no other choice, However, for this exercise, do what you wish since this is for practicing your ability to use Winlink in an emergency condition. Thanks much, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From glenn at arwolfpack.com Fri Jun 17 12:06:16 2022 From: glenn at arwolfpack.com (glenn at arwolfpack.com) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:06:16 -0500 Subject: [PBARC] 442.175 Proposal Message-ID: <015d01d88264$2d8e9890$88abc9b0$@arwolfpack.com> Posting this just to make sure it reaches a wider audience. This posting was made on the PBARC facebook page and posted by Bill Aycock. If you don't have facebook or don't want to respond to the reflector you can share your comments with me directly. I'll make sure they get mentioned at the next formal PBARC club meeting. For the past two years, the 442.175 PBARC repeater has operated as a DMR machine. Recently, the connection with the Brandmeister site that provides DMR Internet access has been down. It appears that is beyond my ability to repair. Also, interest or activity in the DMR realm was been minimal at best. As a result, I am proposing to return the 443.175 to an analog mode with the original callsign of KJ5PE. This will provide repeater access to some in Pine Bluff that do not have access since we moved the 146.70. If we do this, we will try to sell the DMR controller and put the money (estimate $150) in the club treasury. Comments and your concerns are welcome. Please post them here or send them to me directly. Thanks, Bill KC5MN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kk5zd at aristotle.net Sat Jun 18 09:16:38 2022 From: kk5zd at aristotle.net (KEITH) Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 08:16:38 -0500 Subject: [PBARC] Field Day Message-ID: PBARC Field Day Update6/17/2022Due to circumstances beyond our control and given how close we are to field day and the likelihood that we will not be able to find a spot for both Field Day setup and our planned lunch fellowship,? PBARC will NOT be sponsoring a field day operation this year. We encourage you to check the ARRL website for nearby Field Day operations that you might chose to attend.? Home operation should still allowed but check the Field Day rules. Hopefully it will works out for FD 2023.Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From glenn at arwolfpack.com Sun Jun 26 09:43:09 2022 From: glenn at arwolfpack.com (glenn at arwolfpack.com) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 08:43:09 -0500 Subject: [PBARC] Elizabeth Gaines Message-ID: <023701d88962$acb716b0$06254410$@arwolfpack.com> I found out that John Gaines, N5VGJ, lost his mother, Elizabeth Gaines, yesterday. Visitation will be at Ralph Robinson's today (June 26, 2022) from 2 to 4 PM. Burial will be Monday June 27, 2002 in Camden, Arkansas at 1130 AM at Greenwood Cemetery. In leiu of flowers John has requested that a donation be made to the Arkansas Railroad Museum in memory of his Mom. Please keep John in your thoughts and prayers. Regards, 73, Glenn N5RN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: