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Mutual Aid Group Time - Exercise and trying out new Yo-Yo HF Antenna w/ FT817 QRP Rig.

Group exercise to exercise our bodies and minds. We fielded the Yo-Yo with FT817 QRP rig. Ate what we had in our Get Home Bags and just had an overall great day We even did a couple of the Conflicted scenario cards.
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US Army and Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio Service (MARS) stations will participate in a 48-hour nationwide contingency communication exercise on October 27 and 28 as part of an effort to develop greater cooperation between the Department of Defense (DoD)-sponsored MARS program and the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES). MARS is encouraging its members to discuss communication interoper…

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Military Auxiliary Radio Service (MARS) stations from Okinawa and the US West Coast joined members of the Canadian Forces Auxiliary Radio Service (CFARS) to participate in the first phase of the US Pacific Command’s multinational “Pacific Endeavor-14” communication exercise that concluded on August 11. The disaster scenario was a massive earthquake in Nepal that caused a large number of casualt…

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Amateur Radio volunteers in Puerto Rico participated in the CARIBE WAVE/LANTEX 14 exercise in March. The purpose of the exercise was to assist tsunami preparedness efforts in the Caribbean and adjacent regions, including the east coasts of the US and Canada. Since 2010, Amateur Radio has played a role in the exercise, executed in Puerto Rico in conjunction with the Seismic Net of Puerto Rico (R…

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Amateur Radio operators and federal government stations are engaged in a 12-day nationwide test of their capability to communicate with each other on HF in the event of an emergency or disaster. The High Frequency Interoperability Exercise 2014 (HFIE-2014) is running concurrently with the federal National Exercise Program (NEP) 2014. Activity is taking place on two of the five 60 meter channels…

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Members of Staffordshire RAYNET taking part in Exercise MERCURY Online Gambling Addiction VI. A communication exercise involving all Category 1 responders, such as Local Authorities, …
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Everything about the MARS “Pacific Endeavor-13” exercise was simulated, except the power failure in “Pacifica,” the fictitious disaster-battered Asian nation that a small band of amateurs was seeking to assist. The Pentagon and US Pacific Command set up the drill as a test of Amateur Radio emergency support in Asia in the aftermath of Japan’s tsunami catastrophe. MARS, military stations and ama…

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radio interference to desaster relief communications exercise in Austria,Linz, possibly caused by BPL PLT, PLc, unwanted radiation, harmful interference on s…
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