ETO Semi-Annual Drill HF Coverage

[Ian Snow]

Good morning,

The EmComm-Training Organization (R) as you may know conducts monthly Winlink training with the goal of exposing ARO's to the myriad templates available for use in an EMCOMM situation.  This month's semi-annual Drill (as opposed to monthly training exercise) had two objectives:

• encourage operators to go beyond their "normal" gateway and explore using Telnet, VHF, UHF and HF gateways at several distance ranges
• for the ETO team to learn what HF gateways were being used by respondents.

To say that the team was astounded at the number and locations of gateways used is an understatement.  Consider too that HF conditions experienced during the original exercise window as we experienced a G5 scale geomagnetic storm.  While the exercise window was extended, it didn't materially affect when most responses were received.  The non-TELNET response map is at:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=14LwjqwjVLwmdhDddzycF5KMnrSt-FZA&ll=0.6819932759419487%2C0&z=2

As an aside, ETO is aware of and supports other organizations using ETO scenarios for their own good purposes.  Similarly, I would welcome any scenario proposals you have in mind that ETO could utilize.  It would be nice to get more Canadian content into "the game".

73,

Ian Snow VA3QT

BARC AUXCOMM Liaison

ETO Writer's Team

[Marvin Double]

This is a very impressive result. It reinforces for me the extraordinary value of Winlink as part of our communications tool kit. I continue to promote Winlink as being another, important and fun aspect of amateur radio, which really is more than just something only used for emergency communications - however, the more Winlink users, the better it will work for Emergency Communications if needed.

I've been using the VARA software modem running under Windows 10, for some time now and like it. The dashboard provides a lot of good real time information I find helpful. I have just learned that the forms template us just been added to PAT Winlink of Linux. In my opinion this is an excellent and important development.

73 to All

Marvin VE3VCG 

[VE3EMA- Harmen]

Yes, very impressive.   If you want to see Winlink connections around the world in the last 24 hours, go to the Winlink Propagation Map-Recent QSOs https://winlink.org/RMSChannels

73 Harmen VE3EMA/VA3OU

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