KC Northland ARES (WØKCN)

This weeks letter contains the following items:

To read the full letter go to :     www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2010-09-02

This morning a new Northland ARES web feature went into effect.  Each month on the 28th, the Northland ARES web server will send an update to every member of the group who chooses to receive the message.  The email message will contain information on upcoming events for the following month as well as information on the group's nets and web site.  There will also be a reminder about the member's user profile and the last date the profile was updated.  We hope this will be a valuable information tool for our membership.  If however anyone wants to opt out of this notification, a checkbox on the bottom of the member's first user profile tab can be deselected and no monthly message will be forwarded. 

Northland ARES

The September monthly ARES meeting will be held on Tuesday, 9/14 at 7:00 pm.  The location will be the Clay County EOC Training Center.  Members should bring an HT to participate in an exercise during the meeting.  Further details available on the Thursday evening net on 146.79 at 7:00 pm.

NBEMS is a suite of amateur radio software for digital communications.  The ARRL has endorsed NBEMS as a digital standard for emergency communications support.  NBEMS is also a great software suite for personal use.  The software includes FLDigi, an interface for keyboard communications, FLARQ used for file transfer, FLWrap, a check-digit program which helps insure complete file transfer, and now FLMsg, an interface for creating ICS-213 and NTS traffic forms. 

NBEMS is developed for Windows and Linux platforms.  New versions of FLDigi and FLMsg have been released as of 8/27.  The entire suite of software can be found on the NBEMS website at www.w1hkj.com/

Northland ARES operates a PSK net every Sunday evening at 8:00 pm on 145.75, 1000hz waterfall. 

This weeks letter contains the following items:

To read the full letter go to:     www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2010-08-26