A good meeting tonight - one person showed their go-pack. These are portable ham radio stations that can be boxed up and grabbed at a moment's notice in the event of an emergency. Look at ten people's designs and you will get ten different go-packs. It is fun seeing the other designs as I can blatantly copy borrow bits of their design to use in my next iteration.
We also did a refresher on the ARRL Radiogram (PDF file) - this is a sort of radio telegram for sending messages from one station to another. You can assign levels of priority and there is a measure of error checking so it is a really well thought out communication method. It is hard-limited to twenty five words so keep things short and sweet. ARRL is our technology guild - the Amateur Radio Relay League - just celebrated its 100th year in 2016.
Also, as we head into spring, there are a lot of upcoming events for which we offer communications services - mostly races. Starting to schedule these. I help with the Ragnar Relay as well as the Ski to Sea - a lot of fun.
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