SC4 Amateur Radio Club

Discussion of general interest including club business and events. Please post ARES discussion in the SC4ARES group.

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• November 19, 2018 at 9:01 PM #8728
  
  Jeneen, W6NCS (president)
  

  Moderator

  Me again.

  We’ve been talking about having another simplex test to see who can reach who if the repeaters are down. We decided that sometime in February would be good, once everyone has had time to recuperate from the holidays. We will be testing 440, 2m and 6m simplex. Mikey is in charge of organizing, but I want to get a date set so it will be on your calendars. The more people who participate, the more useful the test will be. I propose February 9th, at 9 am. If this date/time doesn’t work for you, please respond with a suggestion for another date/time in February and we can take a poll.

  We also want to do an HF NVIS test, and may want to do it on the same day after the UHF/VHF tests or another day, maybe later in the day hoping for better conditions. More on that later.

  November 22, 2018 at 10:05 PM #10142
  
  Mary, AF6IE
  

  Participant

  2/9/19 looks good for me….but it’s still early to say.

  January 20, 2019 at 3:14 PM #10185
  
  Mike, KJ6VCP
  

  Participant

  I uploaded the slides from the Simplex overview to the library:
  http://www.sc4arc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019_simplex_overview.pdf

  We confirmed February 9th as the date. Instructions and registration details will follow later this week.

  January 23, 2019 at 1:45 PM #10192
  
  Mike, KJ6VCP
  

  Participant

  The instructions for the simplex test have been uploaded at:
  http://www.sc4arc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/sc4ares_instructions_2019_simplex.pdf

  Stations need to register in advance. The registration form is at
  https://goo.gl/forms/8bFDV0NYKVKTbDYz2

  A few people asked about testing multiple radios (mobile, base, HT, etc.) If you want to do that, just register multiple times with a call sign modifier. For example, KJ6VCP/HT for handheld, KJ6VCP/BASE for a home station. Or you can just put the details in the location description.

  February 6, 2019 at 11:30 PM #10202
  
  Casey, KA5WAX
  

  Participant

  Mike, do you want ‘listen only’ participants to register ahead of time? I don’t see any field to indicate such folks don’t end up on the transmission queue list. ( could well of missed it! )

  February 6, 2019 at 11:41 PM #10203
  
  Mike, KJ6VCP
  

  Participant

  If you select listen-only, I’ll assume you are not transmitting. Mostly, a listen only registration will collect the location info, which is not public but will let us create a map of the results.

  February 6, 2019 at 11:42 PM #10204
  
  Casey, KA5WAX
  

  Participant

  Mike, do you want ‘listen only’ participants to register ahead of time? I don’t see any field to use to indicate such folks don’t end up on the transmission queue list. ( could well of missed it! )

  I’m working on lining up some Canyon listeners, as I’ll be in a board meeting while this is happening. I’ll distribute instructions, and your final matrix, Friday afternoon. I’ll gather and collate Sat afternoon.

  I use ‘listening’ for our canyon folks in a wistful sense, like unicorn sighting.

  February 7, 2019 at 4:01 AM #10205
  
  Pat, KJ6GMG (secretary & emergency coordinator)
  

  Moderator

  Mike, will you be sending out a list of transmitting registrants, with location info, prior to Sat?

  Thanks.

  February 7, 2019 at 6:22 AM #10206
  
  Mike, KJ6VCP
  

  Participant

  I have uploaded a blank logging form to the site:
  http://www.sc4arc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/sc4ares_logging_2019_simplex.pdf

  This is a pdf form; you can either print it out, and fill it in by hand, or fill it in with Acrobat, save it, and email it back.

  I will mail out a list of all the registrations to everyone that registered Thursday evening. We may still get registrations after that, but the list should be mostly complete.

  February 12, 2019 at 3:15 PM #10323
  
  Casey, KA5WAX
  

  Participant

  Will someone forward me the registrants list; I’m assuming it’s in order of the exercise.
  I am decyphering some cryptic glyphs here.
  NM, I’ll just send this along to Mike

  • This reply was modified 5 months ago by  Casey, KA5WAX.
  March 5, 2019 at 1:15 PM #10346
  
  David, KM6DOV
  

  Participant

  How is the final report coming along?

  March 9, 2019 at 7:10 AM #10347
  
  Mike, KJ6VCP
  

  Participant

  I have updated the final report to the library.

  This has a summary of who heard who, and a map for each station plotting the results.

  2019_sc4arc_simplex_results.pdf

  I have raw data if anyone is interested in more analysis. Also, the maps are just snapshots – the live version is more fun but I don’t have an easy way to host them.

  April 3, 2019 at 5:31 PM #10470
  
  Casey, KA5WAX
  

  Participant

  Thanks Mike.
  when you get a moment send along the raw data to me? I suppose it’s CSV, or perhaps some XLS format.
  I want to update the Butano CERT wiki.
  TIA

  April 4, 2019 at 8:41 PM #10475
  
  Mike, KJ6VCP
  

  Participant

  Done.

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