Hillsborough County ARES

Welcome to Hillsborough County ARES

Our Next Meeting Scheduled for Wednesday November 8 at 7:00 pm IN PERSON. There will be no Zoom link available at this time for this meeting

We will be meeting at our old meeting place, Darmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Nashua, NH. The building is located at 2300 Southwood Drive, right off of exit 8 of the Everett Turnpike.

The topic will be the just completed NH SET excerise. Reviewing the reports, looking at what went wrong, what went well and how we can improve the process. Come with your questions, suggestions and comments!

Also a bit of training and discussion of changing digital modes.

Should be very interesting! See you there!

NO ZOOM LINK FOR THIS MEETING.

~~Note: Watch this website for the Zoom link to the HC-ARES meeting the week of the meeting.~~

NBEMS Training Plan

Links to our recent four session NBEMS training are below.

Session 1- January 12 Link https://youtu.be/uiAfZiWLZH4
- Download and configure FLdigi, FLmsg and FLamp on the computer
- Download and configure Virtual Audio Cable
- Discuss sound cards for interfacing computer and radio (needed for Session 4)
- Homework - Open FLdigi and explore its features, click on macros, review Configuration menu features and Op Mode menu features
Session 2 – February 9 Link https://youtu.be/3K6PJ-vC7QM
- Communicate with FLdigi over the Zoom connection using the computer keyboard and simple macros
- Download Hillsborough County ARES macros from Digital tab on k1hil.org
- Homework - Practice using macros. Click on them to see what they do. Right click on them to see how they are structured.
Session 3 – March 9 https://youtu.be/sigMoaoY8AE
- Prepare an ICS-213 using FLmsg
- Conduct a regular digital net over Zoom
- Homework - Practice writing ICS-213 messages and "transmit" them through FLdigi
Session 4 – April 13 https://youtu.be/FZxrSzMIlSQ
- Transition what is learned during Zoom training to 2m FM
- Connect and configure sound card
- Conduct a digital net on CH51