North Fulton Amateur Radio Emergency Service

NFARES will be holding the 2011 Simulated Emergency Test (SET) on Sunday, October 16th from 3-6PM.

This year's simulated emergency will be a tornado and we are hoping that our preparation will be for a test and not a real tornado emergency. With your help, we will provide ham radio operators at all Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Dunwoody, Roswell, Alpharetta and Milton fire stations, hospitals and shelters, and pass messages between locations using the National Traffic System (NTS) format.

To participate, please contact Mike Cohen (AD4MC) at ad4mc@nfarl.org or 404-981-8624

The NFARES group has been testing fldigi for their digital mode and it is working great. It permits an easy way to exchange digital messages. The mode being used is MT63/1000. Here is the good news - it works very well acoustically coupled - in other words, you do not have to have a digital interface such as Signal-Link. Just use a pair of computer headphones with microphone (sometimes referred to a "computer headset"). Plug them into the sound card on your computer, put the microphone next to your rig (usually 147.06), turn on fldigi and copy away!

NFARES will be holding the 2010 Simulated Emergency Test (SET) on Sunday, October 10th from 3-6PM.

This year's simulated emergency will be a hurricane and we are hoping that our preparation will be for a test and not a real hurricane emergency. With your help, we will provide ham radio operators at all Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Roswell, Alpharetta and Milton fire stations, hospitals and shelters, and pass messages between locations using the National Traffic System (NTS) format.

To participate, please contact Mike Cohen (AD4MC) at set2010@nfarl.org.

The next meeting of the North Fulton ARES will be Tuesday, May 11 2010 at 7:00pm ET. We'll gather at Tijuana Joe's for dinner starting about 5:45pm. For directions, please see our Meetings page. We also monitor the 147.06+ (PL 100.0) repeater and can talk you in.

The agenda for May's meeting is a discussion of cross-band repeat capabilities. Mike, AD4MC, will give a demonstration of the setup that was used for the Sandy Springs Cycle Challenge and could be used during other emergency communications activities.

The next meeting of the North Fulton ARES will be Tuesday, March 9 2010 at 7:00pm ET.

NOTE: The March meeting location is scheduled for the Sandy Springs EOC/911 Center. The EOC is located off of Mt Vernon Rd near Barfield Rd. Please enter the parking deck from Mt Vernon Rd, and Tom (W4UOC) will let you in the building.

We will monitor the 145.47+ (PL 100) repeater and 146.49 simplex for talk-in.

For the March meeting, we will have training on AirMail/Winlink, D-STAR, and D-RATS. Please join us!

The next meeting of the North Fulton ARES will be Tuesday, January 12 2010 at 7:00pm ET. We'll gather at Tijuana Joe's for dinner starting about 5:45pm. For directions, please see our Meetings page. We also monitor the 147.06+ (PL 100.0) repeater and can talk you in.

The agenda for January's meeting includes:

• Sandy Springs Fire Rescue Chief Jeff Scarbrough
• Review of the North Fulton fire station antenna survey
• Introduction of the new NFARES website

Please join us!