The April second Saturday training is approaching, and we hope that as many of you as possible will participate. The morning of April 13th is part training and part exercise with multiple stations and operators exchanging digital messages via the Winlink FM Peer to Peer mode. That may sound intimidating to those of you who do not operate in digital modes, but this is a great opportunity to learn and participate with no cost to you. Several participating agency stations will be open to all members, and we invite you to go to one of those locations and learn/participate from there. Each station will have friendly knowledgeable operators to answer any questions you have and guide you through sending and receiving digital messages.
The goal on April 13th starting at 9am is to have members, EOCs, and served agencies who participate establish P2P contact and exchange some selected ICS form messages from the Winlink Templates. We want to capture the information about which stations could and could not make P2P contact and where they are located on a map. Please lookup your GPS coordinates in advance. See latlong.net or similar.
The Western Oregon Radio Club has generously given us permission to use the 145.450 repeater that morning as our coordinating voice repeater. The 145.450 is our regular voice net repeater and will be monitored throughout the event so if anyone has an issue, help is just a radio transmission away. All stations are encouraged to monitor the 145.450 repeater simultaneously with the P2P activity with a separate radio if possible.
The P2P exchanges will take place on the frequencies designated on the 2023 template and listed below. Participating stations with messages ready for transmission will inform the net control station (termed “listing traffic”). Then net control station will direct which station is to send a message (traffic) and the frequency to use. We have three frequencies for use simultaneously. Stations will inform net control station when they have finished with their assigned frequency and whether or not the message went through.
89 WC 13 145.600 — — P2P-1
90 WC 14 145.680 — — P2P-2
91 WC 15 145.700 — — P2P-3
Corey Stone and Steve Taylor will operate the Washington County EOC station WC7EOC which will be open to all members. Please arrive no later than 8:55 so we can let you in the door if you do not have access to the Sheriff’s Office yourself. If you are late contact us on the 145.450 repeater and we will let you in.
215 SW Adams Ave. Hillsboro OR 97123
Paul Tuttle will operate from the OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center station K7HMC. Members, guests and STEAM kids/teachers are welcome. Enter through the main hospital entrance at 335 SE 8th Ave., turn left, just before the gift shop and the station is in a conference room through some double doors. This station will be accessible to visitors throughout the morning.
Larry Ossowski will be participating from the Tigard EOC station using the call sign KD7RFG. He may also try participating using his own callsign AE7TM by using an HT and digi-peating through the Tigard station. The Tigard station is at 8973 SW Burnham Street in Tigard.
Michael Stevens will operate from the WCCCA station. He would be happy to have other operators in that location too.
All visitors should arrive at their chosen station before 9am so that the operators can let you into their facility. If you arrive after 9 you may need to contact that stations operators to let you in as they will be operating and no longer checking the entrance.
Corey Stone
AJ***@wa********.org
AJ7CS
