On Saturday February 25th we will be joining the American Red Cross in a Winlink communications exercise. The goal is to set up a temporary field station in Gaithersburg and send/receive Winlink exercise messages via stations both near and far. We expect to meet at 7405 Lindbergh Drive in Gaithersburg around 9:30, get set up, and be on the air by 10:30. You can participate in one of two ways:
- Join us in Gaithersburg for the exercise.
- Act as a “far end” Winlink station, and reply to our drill messages.
If you are a regular FARC Winlink participant, you likely received a message from me last night via Winlink. If you did NOT receive a message from me, please send me a message via Winlink – address to K3MMM and copy to Sandy KB3EOF. We expect to have an HF radio deployed to receive incoming peer to peer messages – frequency and call sign will be sent via Winlink during the exercise.
We also plan to deploy an AREDN (amateur radio emergency data network) node as a part of this exercise.
Please contact me with questions.
73!
Mike K3MMM
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