Our group has written scores of articles and white-papers on radio skills, assets, and strategies for volunteer backup communications. Themes have been created for logical grouping to make it easier to find what you are looking for. Click on a heading to find all the articles stored under that heading.
- Antennas
- Arduino K3NG Winkeyer-Emulator Locally Developed Morse Code Keyer Manual
- ARRL 2022 Convention
- AuxComm & Releated
- Battery Backup
- BITX Resources
- Blank AARIP in ODT Format
- Communications Cable Between Windows / Linux
- County ARES Docs
- 160m BandPass Filter Construction
- 2024 New EOC Antenna Proposals
- Alachua County Comms Plan
- Alachua County Comms Taskbook
- Alachua County EOT Webpage
- ARES Application Form
- Badging List
- EOC Facility Use Form
- FL ARES Taskbook
- Mobile Broadband Kit – Introduction
- New EOC Antenna Justifications
- New EOC Zoning Compliance
- Power/Internet Outage maps
- Shelter PhotoBook
- Shelter Wifi
- Shelter Wifi 2
- Shelters with Hard Wired Radio Antennas
- State Volunteers Legal Docs
- Tennessee Training on Simplex Disaster Nets
- Training Level Data
- VHF / VARA-FM / PACKET Map
- CW Resources
- Data Comms
- 2024 Field Day FT8/FT4 Suggestions
- Commercial SignaLink USB Guide
- Creating a City Wide Packet Repeater
- Digital 101
- Digital Connection How To
- Easy Term Tutorial
- FLDigi Cheat Sheet
- Florida Winlink Net
- FT8/FT4/JS8
- How to Use the UF Packet Station
- How to Wire for Data
- Inexpensive Homebrew Soundcard
- Installing Vara AC
- Installing Vara-AC
- Introduction to Packet Radio
- Making a Packet Connection to a Winlink RMS Packet Server
- Packet Radio
- Radiograms in Winlink
- Sarasota Radio Club
- Setting up an RMS Gateway
- Setting up Winlink without Internet Access
- Sorting Out Data Techniques
- Sound Options
- TARPN Radio Network
- Traverse Two Nodes to reach Packet Gateway
- Understanding Soundcard Issues
- VARA Digipeater
- VARA FM Setup
- Winlink
- Winlink Advanced Topics for Sysops
- Winlink Express
- Winlink Take Two
- Winlink without Windows
- Wiring your Radio for Digital
- Emergency Comms
- 2018 Alachua County Emergency Communications Reference
- AA3YB JS8 Call Schedule
- Comms When Normal No Longer Works
- Emergency Intake Form
- Florida Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan
- Hurricane Shelter Issues
- Importance of Ham Radio in Disasters
- Katrina Comms
- Local GPS Capture For Timekeeping
- Neighborhood Radio Watch
- Net List
- Radiogram
- Shelter ID-4100 Operation
- EMP Resources
- Equipment Design & Manuals
- Exercise Templates
- FCC Issues
- Field Day Systems
- Generators
- HIPAA
- Incident Command System
- Lab n Lunch Projects
- Mesh – Ubiquiti
- Misc
- NFL Materials
- NTP Server
- PACKET (AX.25) Communications
- Parts Resouces
- Personal Growth in Emcomm Goals
- Propagation
- QRP Amps
- Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
- Raspberry Pi
- Repeater Construction
- sBITX (software-defined Bitx)
- sBitx T/R Troubleshooting
- School Radio Kit
- Scouting
- Solar
- Soundcard
- SSTV
- Tech Nite Compendium
- Antenna Tuners
- Antennas for the Comms Volunteer
- AX.25 Part 1
- AX.25 Part 2
- Beginner’s Corner: Simple Antennas
- Chainsaws and the Volunteer
- Data Techniques
- Digital Connections
- Digital Hardware 101
- Doing Digital Radio Data
- Ham Radio Ancient Lore
- Modulation
- Nuclear Attack & Emergency Comms
- Of Microphones and Speakers
- Power Supplies
- Public Field Day
- Ultimate Portable HF Rig
- Understanding Power Amplifiers
- Wire up for Data
- TechNite: Go-Box Construction Options
- TechNite: Computer Contesting Settings (2024)
- TechNiteJune2024 – Copying Digital Bulletins
- Traffic Training
- Training Manuals
- ARES History of Taskbooks
- Command Performance: Using the Incident Command System (ICS)
- EC 001 Course (Dropbox)
- FEMA NIMS Factsheet
- GLG Task 1
- Ham Radio Comms (FL Baptist Disaster Relief)
- ICS 300 Lesson 2
- ICS 300 Lesson 5
- ICS Organizational Structure and Elements
- ICS via Wikipedia
- Net Operations
- NIMS for Field Day Planning
- Radiogram Practice
- WINLINK Practice
- Transistor Amplifier Background