The 2024 Great ShakeOut — a popular worldwide annual earthquake drill (www.shakeout.org) — was held on October 17, 2024, at 10:17 AM local time. Millions of people around the world participated in the drill to practice earthquake safety. The ShakeOut Amateur Radio Community Intensity Map (ARCIM) project — a collaboration of Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) LAX Northeast, Ventura County Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS)/ARES, San Diego ARES, the ARRL San Joaquin Valley Section, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) MOVE Radio Club, W4MOV — offered the whole community of radio operators the chance to submit Winlink “Did you feel it?” (DYFI) reports as part of their ShakeOut drill experience. Continue reading:
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ShakeOut 2022 is on October 20th, 10:20 A.M.
Thursday, October 20th, is the Great California ShakeOut, and ACS will conduct an exercise that you can do from home or work. We will have a voice check-in on ACS channel 9 (145.200 – PL 127.3) and Winlink check-ins using the USGS form.
The time of the mock earthquake is 10:20 A.M. Please check in by voice 10:20 and 10:45 A.M. using your member number and FCC call sign. If you have only a handheld radio, look for a high, clear spot to operate from. An external antenna will generally provide better results than will a stock handheld-mounted antenna
If you have Winlink capability, please also send a Winlink DYFI form using the built-in template to DYFI@vccomm.org after 10:30 A.M. Please include your location’s latitude and longitude (decimal degrees with the longitude being a negative number) on your Winlink check-in form, as we will be mapping the results. If you are unsuccessful, wait a few minutes and try again.
Continue reading “ShakeOut 2022 is on October 20th, 10:20 A.M.”California ShakeOut Exercise Set For October 23
Exercise plan and timeline:
- Exercise has a digital element consisting of Winlink messages (DYFI and Welfare via VHF and HF, and a phone element using VHF simplex
- Date: Saturday Oct 23rd
- Simulated Quake timeline 9:15am approx.
- Winlink activity 9:15 to 10 am, VHF/HF as you are able
- Check your house as you would if there had been a real quake.
- Send DYFI message to USGS, CC to dyfi@vccomm.org
- In the Optional Exercise Field of the DYFI form, please enter” SOCAL ARES Shakeout 2021.”
- Send a welfare message to your out-of-town friends and family. Members are encouraged to send messages for their neighbors.
- Phone Simplex VHF check-in 10 to 11am, using 145.615 MHz, VC ACS/ARES Channel 19
- Rob, W6RH, will go up to Rasnow and call for check ins. This is a good opportunity to see who you can hear across the county.
- Winlink activity 9:15 to 10 am, VHF/HF as you are able
- Email updates via CVARC main group
ACS Members Invited to Learn Winlink
ARES LAX NW District, LA EmComm group and WaveTalkers are running another round of their Winlink Basics for EmComm course every Friday and Sunday at 2pm PST for the next few weeks. The Friday and Sunday sessions are repeats of the same material so feel free to join either session live, link below, or catch the recordings on WaveTalkers. http://wavetalkers.com
Session 1: Winlink Basics, was last week, and the recordings for those sessions can be accessed here: https://courses.wavetalkers.com/courses/winlink/lectures/16789262 .
Session 2: Getting on The Air With Winlink Over Telnet, starts today at 2pm PST and will be repeated live on Sunday at 2pm PST. All course sessions are being live streamed at my WaveTalkers site: http://wavetalkers.com and links to the Live Zoom sessions, previous course sessions, and show notes are available by joining the class.
The course being conducted live via Zoom and all Zoom sessions are limited to 100 participants.
ARES and ACS members are welcome to join the LIVE Zoom session at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9905081876?pwd=UDhpenoxeXkzZXpMYTJXK2NNRGpsZz09
Winlink Best Practices
Here is a series of talks hosted by Dan Marler-K7REX, that reflect a variety of approaches on best practices when using Winlink:
Continue reading “Winlink Best Practices”“Did You Feel It?” The Great California Shakeout
Click here to view the presentation made by Andy Moorwood-K3CAQ on the October 17, 2020 “Did You Feel It” Great California Shakeout event in Ventura County.
New Ventura ACS/ARES Check-In Template for Winlink
There is a new custom Winlink template to be used for weekly ACS/ARES check-ins. When checking in, send your Winlink Message to: winlink@vccomm.org. It will be automatically processed and if everything looks good, you should receive an email confirmation to your Winlink address within 10 minutes.
You can download the template via This Link
Once unzipped, place all three template files (not the “Instructions” directory or this file) in your “RMS Express\Global Folders\Templates\” directory and you will see the new template under the the “Global” list.
Restart Winlink and you should be set. If you have questions, feel free to contact Stu Sheldon-AG6AG at stu@ag6ag.org.