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Ohio District 3 ARES: Serving Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Logan, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Shelby counties

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Winlink Training

Note: The training sessions listed below have been consolidated and updated into a single PDF  document.


These are training sessions passed as ICS-213 messages during Montgomery and Greene County ARES Digital Training nets:

Week 1: Introduction to FLDIGI and Winlink

Week 2: Winlink Initial Setup

Week 3: Setting up Winlink for use on VHF/UHF

Week 4: Setting up Winlink for use on HF

Week 5: Looking up and connecting to RMS nodes

Week 6: Messages

Week 7: Forms

Week 8: ETO Winlink Thursday (Was Red Cross Drill 14 Nov. 2020).

Week 9: Digipeating

Week 10: Peer to Peer (P2P)

Week 11: Introduction to Radio Only

Week 12: Registering your Winlink account for Radio Only

Week 13: Sending/Receiving a Radio Only Message.

Week 14: Setting up and using VARA FM

Week 15: Sending a Winlink Message to yourself

Week 16: New Version of VARA HF

Week 17: Winlink over Android (WoAD)

Week 18: Creating your own Winlink Templates

Week 19: SMS Texting using Winlink


Additional Winlink Training Resources:

The Winlink Book of Knowledge

Recorded RATPAC Zoom sessions (Scroll down for Winlink related sessions)

The EmComm Training Organization (ETO) Organizers of Winlink Thursdays and National Winlink drills.

The ETO folks also have a YouTube Channel

 

ARES Training Net

Wednesday evenings at 8:00 PM on one of the following systems:

1st 2nd 4th and 5th Wednesday of each month:

145.11 /224.16 MHz (67.0 Hz tone) WC8OH  repeater system.

3rd Wednesday of each month:

146.820 MHz (77.0 Hz Tone) WA8PLZ repeater system.

For more info see the Net Repeaters page

The Net Control Operator will use the callsign of KD3WCO

Community/Public Service Events

May 16
8:00 am - 11:00 pm

Miamisburg Springfest

Jun 13
7:00 am - 12:00 pm

5K Walk Run for Autism Awareness

Jul 18
July 18 - July 19

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Jul 23
July 23 - July 26

Pan Ohio Hope Ride 2026 (Cleveland to Cincinnati)

Aug 1
5:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Miamisburg Rockin’ Green Tomato

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District 3 County ARES Sites

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