WICEN Vic: Friday 10th Sept - Digital Playground Training Exercise

Tue Sep 7 20:10:42 CDT 2021

Mark - that group, as I pointed out a week or so back, is NOT the best place for information on this stuff.

Please use the official Winlink programs group on Google groups, there will be a multitude of people there that do digipeating and other stuff every day.

They are the ones to ask. They’ve been there done that many times already, and it is supported by the software developers.

You can find out a lot about various setups and situations just by reading the mail…. 

Tim.

> On 8 Sep 2021, at 10:56, Mark Hudson <vk3mdh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> In case my YouTube video links where incorrect here they are again.
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> P25 Tasmania Emergency Agencies
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE98s0ezgdM
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> Porttable Winlink Setup
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03t82d8yZkg&t=59s
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> Cheers,
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> Mark
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> From: Mark Hudson <vk3mdh at gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 6:05 pm
> To: WICEN distn list <wicenvic at vic.wicen.org.au>
> Subject: Friday 10th Sept - Digital Playground Training Exercise
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> Good afternoon everyone,
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> If your around Friday evening between 1930hrs ~ 2130hrs please join us in any capacity you can.
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> We’ll have an open Zoom session running as well as a digital emergency training exercise.
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> Zoom Details
> Topic: WICEN Digital Playground N#2
> Time: Sep 10, 2021 19:30 Australia/Melbourne
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> Join Zoom Meeting
> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88448188662?pwd=Snoyc2FLRlU3NE8xV3dDN0JkNXZXQT09
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> Meeting ID: 884 4818 8662
> Passcode: 428339
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> Friday Nights Training Exercise – NOTE – This is not how I usually write a emergency training exercise or SOP’s but due to timing and the informality of Friday night here it is.
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> The Aim & Objective - The aim of this week’s exercise is to see how many WICEN stations we can get on air with VARA Winlink. The objective will be the successful passing of several messages by each field station. This exercise also tests having two Melbourne Metropolitan control stations using single frequencies (both on HF & VHF). 
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> The scenario
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> At 1930hrs all internet & phone communications fail across the state of Victoria due to a unknown “issue” in the states telecommunications systems. This means all agencies are without their usual voice and data systems. A State Emergency Management Plan has been enacted written for this scenario. You have set up your station at your assigned local Police Station. At the Police station senior Police, Fire, Ambulance and possibly SES leaders have assembled.
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> Your WICEN standard operating procedure says as follows (for this exercise).
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> 1.       If connecting with VARA FM connect to either VK3EQ or VK3MDH and send a message (email) using VARA FM P2P that you are at your assigned location (please specify your location) and confirm your fully operational. You will get a message back from the Net Control Station acknowledging your message. The NCS will need to reconnect to your station.
> 2.       If your using VARA HF Chat, connect to either VK3EQ or VK3MDH. Leave a message that you are at your assigned location (please specify location) and that your fully operational. You will get an acknowledgement back via chat and then the NCS (Net Control Station) will disconnect.
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> At approx. 1945hrs ~ 2000hrs. the NCS you logged into will send you Message 1. Via the same radio frequency (method) you checked in on.
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> It’s now 2000hrs and at this stage as power has not been affected.  Local VHF comms using fire appliances (simplex VHF) have been used to coordinate local responses to any immediate urgent needs for assistance. There is a concern that a long outage could cause the public to panic.
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> At approx. 2030hrs you will receive message 2. Again you will need to respond to this message.
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> Note: Your WICEN Vic standard operating procedure for this event states, Rik VK3EQ and Mark VK3MDH will have their Winlink stations on the air on 145.200 in Vara FM P2P mode. For HF they are using 3581khz dial freq using VARA HF Chat.
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> Let’s test the plan and any questions please let me know.
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> Also few interesting radio video from this week’s lockdown binge.
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> P25 Presentation – Emergency Agencies Tasmania
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE98s0ezgdM
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> Winlink Portable Operation
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE98s0ezgdM
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> Cheers,
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> Mark
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> Mark Hudson
> State Ordinary Member & Membership Officer
> WICEN Victoria
> Mobile +61 409 500 414 
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> Email vk3mdh at gmail.com 
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> Website www.vic.wicen.org.au 
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