SC Statewide ARES HF Net

The South Carolina Statewide ARES HF Net provides another communications path in time of emergency.  While subject to the vagaries of HF propagation, it is often available when other systems are not.  A training net is currently held weekly on Tuesdays at 6:00 PM local time on 3.990 MHz (+/-) LSB.  All licensed hams with 75-meter operating privileges are invited to participate.

We typically run Netlogger during the net to communicate frequency changes, add comments/notes, etc. You are welcome to follow along in Netlogger.

Winlink learning resources 

There are many online resources available to help users learn Winlink.

Two of the better resources are linked here:

Winlink-Workshop-WK1-WK11- Zoom-Series – RATPAC              WaveTalkers Guide: Winlink

Winlink practice opportunities

a) Send messages to yourself, or another operator’s station. Practice attaching forms (from Select Template) or photographs. Note, the total size of a Winlink message after compression including all file attachments may not exceed 120 kb.

b) On any day of the week, you can send messages to the group in Florida W4AKH Winlink Net.

c) On Wednesdays, you can send messages to the Winlink Wednesday group Winlink Wednesday.

d) On Thursdays, you can send messages to the Winlink Thursday group Winlink Thursdays

Passing message traffic

In keeping with the role of this being a training net and to improve the emergency response skills of net participants, the HF net planning group encourages passing of message traffic during the net.

Ideally each week, toward the end of the net, we’ll include some sort of traffic, such as an ICS-213. Participation is encouraged, but voluntary.

If you are interested in being either a sender or receiver, please send a note to KN4KRZ at goddard.mw@gmail.com.

Links to ICS Forms (with instructions)

ICS 213 General Message FILLABLE pdf

ICS 213RR Resource Request FILLABLE pdf

ICS 205 Incident Radio Communications Plan FILLABLE pdf

ICS 309 Station Comm Log FILLABLE pdf

ICS 214 Activity Log FILLABLE pdf

ICS-Form-217A-fillable.pdf

Palmetto Resource Request form V2A.docx (ares-sc.org)

Radiogram.PDF (scssb.net)