To make a L.O.N.G. story short, my county is one of the last counties in the North East that does not have an EOC (Emergency Operations Center) overseen by those lovely folks at FEMA. Well as of April 1, 2018, we now have a EOC coordinator. He has asked a few of us hams in the county to volunteer to operate the ham shack at the EOC which is being built as I type. Well yours-truly was asked and I accepted.
I accepted as I want to keep my enemies VERY close and maybe I would learn some stuff. My one condition was I was not going to leave my EDC in the truck while at the EOC (A lot of acronyms here ;-) ) which was okayed at least as of this week. Anyway to get to the point of this post - I have to learn to TX (Transmit) and RX (Receive) messages electronically.
As I have written in a past post, I downloaded FLDIGI, FLarg, and FLmsg which works fine with my internal sound card on my
Kenwood 590S (6-160 meters) but I needed something else for the VHF/UHF frequencies so I had to purchase a
Signalink USB modem.
My Signalink arrived Wednesday and today will be the first opportunity I have had to set it up and try it out.
My plan is to use it with my
Yaesu 817nd for the VHF/UHF portion of my digital needs to be one with the EOC & FEMA overlords.
I will post my trials and tribulations as I drag my butt into the 21st century here.
