EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
Amateur digital mode nets offer fast, accurate message transmission. But checking into the net, not to mention net discussion, can be arduously long. Can we fix that?
In Toledo, Ohio, Steve Judd, WB8YLO, looked at the 2017 “Black Swan” SET (Simulated Emergency Test) exercise. “They published an EXPLAN (exercise plan – ed.) to include what our participation would be. I came to the realization that the only thing we could do was send radiograms by CW.” Steve is the net manager of the “Buckeye Net,” the official National Traffic System (NTS) CW traffic arm for the ARRL Ohio section. “With that limitation, we couldn’t really participate. So I started thinking about what Buckeye Net is supposed to do.”
Steve dug up old operating manuals and
