Various District 3 counties hold weekly Digital nets. These provide valuable training on using digital modes to pass traffic during an activation. They use sound card digital modes and the free FLDIGI software package.
FLDIGI is used in a keyboard to keyboard mode, either with two stations passing traffic to each other or for net operations with multiple stations. The companion FLMSG software allows use of standardized forms (such as American Red Cross of Incident Command System) to be passed.
Greene County:
- Greene County ARES holds their digital net following their weekly voice nets on Tuesday evenings. The voice net begins at 21:00L.
- It is held on the 146.910(-) W8GCA repeater on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesday.
- It is held on the 442.7250(+) W8GCA repeater on the 4th Tuesday.
- The net uses the MT63 2000 Long (MT63-2KL) digital mode centered on 1500 Hz.
Montgomery County:
- Montgomery Co. ARES holds their digital net following their weekly voice nets on Tuesday evenings. The voice net begins at 20:00L.
- The first and third Tuesday of the month is on the 146.640(-) 123.0HZ tone K8MCA Repeater.
- The second Tuesday of the month is held on the 444.250 (+) 123.0Hz tone K8MCA repeater.
- (The fourth Tuesday is usually reserved for meetings, but during the COVID19 response a net on 146.640 is being held instead).
- The net uses the MT63 2000 Long (MT63-2KL) digital mode centered on 1500 Hz.
If any other District 3 counties are holding Digital nets, please pass the information to ka0azs@arrl.net for posting here.