FEMA Winlink Exercise

FEMA is conducting a communication exercise and is seeing the participation of AMATEUR RADIO. This exercise will be via WINLINK  Tuesday evening, May 31st, from 6:00 PM EDT until 4:00 PM EDT Wednesday afternoon, June 1st.   Please make time and effort to participate in the exercise.   Thank you for your service, Mark Conklin, N7XYO Oklahoma Section Emergency CoordinatorAmateur Radio Emergency Service918.232.8346n7xyo@arrl.net www.ARESOK.org More info –

TARC Tuesday Night Net Check-ins

Column1Column2Column3Column4Column6Column7 1 WA5MA OK Bixby MARK 2 W5AWS OK Tulsa ANDREW 3 KI5VME NEW HAM TODAY ETHAN 4 KI5QBA OK (no club info) McAlester JASON 5 AG5SL OK (no club info) McAlester JAMES 6 KI5UPS OK (no club info) Mulhall JAMES 7 KI5RHL OK Bethany JAMES 8 AD5YDI (no club info) WARREN 9 KF5KNV OK (no club info) Ponca City TONY 10 KD5CMW OK (no club info) BROKEN ARROW JOSH 11 KF5VCQ OK (no club info) Sand Springs STEVE 12 K5CAY OK Tulsa DAN 13 N5DGF OK (no club info) TULSA DON 14 KI5URM OK (no club info) Owasso BRIAN […]

TARC Tuesday Night Net Check-ins

1 WA5MA Bixby Mark J Adams (nc) Tulsa EM25bx 2 W5AWS Tulsa Andrew W Shead (log),(op) Tulsa EM26ad 3 AG5SL McAlester James R Bray Pittsburg EM24cw 4 KI5QBA McAlester Jason P Holt Pittsburg EM24cw 5 WX5SAR Muskogee Jonathan D Moore Muskogee EM25hr 6 KC5MJE JENNINGS Kenny D Adams Pawnee EM16qe 7 W5CAE Sand Springs Christopher A Elliott Osage EM16wf 8 N9JYJ Ponca City John M Brackett Kay EM16jt 9 KI5URM Owasso Brian J Booth Tulsa EM26bh 10 AD5JL TULSA Robert M Busch Tulsa EM26bc 11 K5OSB Tulsa Lloyd H Osbon Jr Tulsa EM26bc 12 N5DMK Tulsa David Kennedy Tulsa EM26ad […]

Nov 11 NTS Net

We had 9 check-ins, passed one piece of traffic.  As I took the traffic and AE5ME did find me after the net (he was driving in from out of town during the net), I passed the message on to him after the Tulsa ARES net ended.  He will then send via WinLink toward the Dallas Local Net representative who will deliver the message on-air probably on the early net in Dallas on Friday evening.  Had that opportunity not been available, I would have taken the message to the 7290 Traffic net, which I join weekly on 7290 LSB from 10am […]

NOV 3 NTS Net

Busy net tonight. 10 check-ins. 3 pieces of traffic listed by three different individuals. Of those messages, two were passed on toward their destination. One station sending traffic to the North Texas STM (section traffic manager) in response to his ntstrivia.com trivia game. Good stuff! Thanks to everyone who participated. Everyone is always welcome.

Aug 26 NTS Net

12 check-ins, 2 messages handled between KG5ZZV and AE5ME who was acting as a liaison  to the WinLink system. I introduced Ray K5CFY who will be my guest NCO next week, with my thanks to him!  I’ve had contact with Mark Kleine regarding some folks in Norman wanting to get into traffic handling and doing it in digital modes, I told him I really don’t have additional time to devote to that personally, but he should (and apparently did contact Jeff AE5ME).  As they get going, I’m hoping they will send a liaison via the Edmond repeater (if they would […]

AUG 19 NTS Net Recap

We had 6 check-ins.  I did list 2 messages from me to go out, but there were no outlets to take the messages.  I will therefore pass them on HF this weekend.  We had no questions.  I talked a bit about all the places that you can exchange traffic, any ARES net, HF Phone Traffic nets, CW Traffic Nets, NBEMS (fldigi) Nets, WInLink, etc.  Basically any mode in amateur radio can be used for passing traffic. If you can even listen to HF, the HF Phone Traffic Nets are interesting because of the wide area they tend to cover and […]

AUG 12 NTS Net Recap

We had 15 check-ins, including a WinLink liaison station who brought one message to me personally. We had an excellent question from a newly licensed ham who wants to do things to help the community, but was wondering what he can do with his limited range and is technician license.  I let him know that the UHF Link system covers about 50,000 sq miles and he can help with anything in that coverage area.  Giving those folks something new (old) to do is one of my primary goals with the net.  If we have a communications emergency in all or […]

AUG 5 NTS Net Recap

It was pretty light tonight at 8 check-ins.  I did an introduction to NTS and the Radiogram form, hopefully addressing people that have joined the net recently.  Jeff AE5ME brought traffic over from Winlink, where he has apparently been talking on other nets about the traffic net (thanks Jeff).  The message to me was a congratulations on starting the traffic net and a request for information on how I did it.  I sent a long reponse by email, but I will send a short response by NTS also as everyone likes to get those back.  I fielded a good question […]