Events
CT ARES Region 5
Digital Training Workshop
Purpose of this workshop:
- Provide a means to learn, practice, share and apply digital communications technology and techniques within the ARES organization
- Prepare for ARES digital communication to support Served Agencies
- Identify and establish specific digital communications protocols within ARES for use in supporting Served Agencies
Date: April 19 2014 9:00 AM till 2:00 PM
Location: 935 Main Street Watertown, CT Watertown Fire House
Third Floor Training Room
Talk In: Watertown Repeater 441.650 + Tone 77
What to bring: Your laptop that you would like to install RMS Express
A note book to take notes
An extension cord and an outlet strip. This is a big room.
The Plan: We want you to leave with RMS Express installed and understand how to use it.
We do not plan to troubleshoot your TNC and get that working for you.
We want you to understand how RMS Express is to be used in a deployment.
See demo’s of RMS Express over radio and different deployment plans.
Schedule: 9:00 AM Intro to the class and what we want to accomplish W8ZY
9:30 ish Intro to RMS Express and install software WA1SFH
Set-Up and configuration
Send your first message by Telnet
Learn about the software and how it works
11:00 ish Overview of the W1SP network W1GTT
Why this is important
Future plans for Region 5
12 Noon Demonstrations of stations WA1SFH
Peer to Peer W1HQ
Icom 7000 in the EOC with RMS Express (if possible) KB1TOR
This is planned to be an introduction class so most subjects will be handled at a high level.
We will be happy to discus any questions that you may bring but we cannot solve all the problems of the world in one sitting.
Based on the success of this class we will schedule more in the future to address more advanced issues.
I need to know how many donuts to buy so please let me know if you plan to attend this class.
Thanks Mike, W8ZY [email protected]