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SARC Agrees to Trial aTelpac Station at W5SC for ARES
davidftx <davidftx@...>
On Saturday, April 28th, 2007, more than 20 Amateur Radio Emergency
Service (ARES) volunteers from Bexar, Kendall and Atascosa counties participated in a VHF Airmail workshop presented by Bexar County ARES and sponsored by the San Antonio Chapter of the American Red Cross. South Texas Digital Emergency Coordinator Tom Whiteside N5TW was on hand to talk about the basics of Winlink 2000, a system of software and hardware maintained by hams across the world which allows for the transmission of Internet email via ham radio. He also demonstrated his portable packet stations which were built out of some rather stout police-surplus GE Delta radios which had been converted to ham use and outfitted with homebrew control heads and internal terminal node controllers (TNCs). Shane O'Neal NS5D walked participants through the installation and usage of Airmail, a PC-based client software package which is used to access the Winlink 2000 system via packet radio on VHF and Pactor on HF. Each participant received a miniature CD-ROM containing Airmail software and documentation. After a hearty lunch, arranged by Grace Hernandez of the Red Cross, workshop participants broke into groups and began working to get their own packet stations up and running, and connecting to a local "Telpac" station. The Telpac is used to forward messages via the Internet to a participating mailbox station (PMBO). Many were able to get their stations running and were sending and receiving messages. Those who did not have their own packet stations were still able to participate thanks to several mentors who brought their own stations in for others to use. Mentors included Jim Mastrogiovanni KK5RZ, Mark Rosier KE5GL and Richard Kilman N5BBI of the Kendall Amateur Radio Society (KARS) as well as Erik Rabe KD5YZU of the Radio Operators of South Texas (ROOST), Milton Johnson KE5CLV and Barry Hiddema W5BLH of the Alamo Area Radio Organization (AARO). In addition to providing lunch and classroom facilities for the event, the Red Cross also donated several used HP Vectra computers to Bexar County ARES. Shane NS5D offered to give a computer to any ham radio club in the area who wanted to build and maintain their own Telpac station. Look for new Telpac stations from the San Antonio Radio Club (SARC), the Southwest Research Amateur Radio Club and KARS to be on the air in the near future. More information about Airmail and Winlink 2000 can be found at http://www.winlink.org. For information about Bexar County ARES, go to http://www.bexarcountyares.org.
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Don Jones
Hello everyone,
Looks as if everyone is doing well. A Country is only as strong as its citizens, so lets make sure to work together and come together from SARC, SARO, and ARRO or people who are interested in helping their community and / or country. Thanks for all your hard work. Don, N5WSW ACC. STX. ASM. STX. Ex. Gulf coast Hurricane Net Manager A Student of Life! -----------not proofread------------ PS. Paul, we can use automated data management. TNX brother... --- davidftx <davidftx@swbell.net> wrote: On Saturday, April 28th, 2007, more than 20 Amateur __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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