Knox County ARES/RACES-CERT Skills & Training



This page contains links to various documents and sites that have information that is relevant to the Knox County ARES/RACES-CERT group. Not included are links to documents that are specific to other pages on this site such as net preambles and training materials. However, more general use documentation may appear in multiple locations.
Radio and Equipment Procedures and Checklists Kenwood TM-D710 Quick Reference Communications Trailer Checklist (in preparation) T50-HD Tower Check List Full Tower Manual
Presentations by Members of our Team A Tool for Creating and Transmitting Forms by Radio Presented at the 2017 Maine Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference Knox County Neighborhood HamWatch Presented at the 2018 Maine Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference A Resilient Amateur Radio Digital Emergency Communications Network for Maine Presented at the 2019 Maine Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference Digital Data Emergency Communications in Maine Presented at the 2019 Maine State ARRL Convention. There was a fair amount of discussion on compressed ARQ modes such as Pactor. For some information on this topic please see Open B2F-Winlink Message Structure and B2 Forwarding Protocol. A Digital Voice Recorder for FRS/GMRS Neighborhood HamWatch Build notes by WD1O. The recorder is based on the Raspberry Pi. The prototype is in operation at the St. George EOC.