In the original training presented to the Montgomery and Greene County ARES Digital Nets, this section dealt with an upcoming Red Cross Winlink Drill in November 2020.<\/p>\n
Since then, the organization running this drill has evolved into the EmComm Training Organization (ETO)<\/a>. It currently hold Winlink Drills twice a year, with a series of Winlink Thursday practice sessions to learn and use different aspects of Winlink.<\/p>\n To learn about the current status of Winlink Thursday<\/a>, any upcoming drills and other resources for learning and practicing Winlink, visit the linked website.<\/p>\n The original posting is retained below for historical purposes:<\/p>\n The American Red Cross will be holding a Winlink communications drill this coming Saturday, 14 November 2020. The Drill starts at 0900 and ends at 1800ET. During that period send one AR-213 message form to the Red Cross Divisional Clearing House (ARCATLANTIC for Ohio ARES District 3).<\/p>\n You may use any connection mode (TELNET, VHF\/UHF\/HF) you have available.<\/p>\n Any operator may participate. You do not have to be a Red Cross, ARES, or EMCOMM volunteer.<\/p>\n Use the following format and provide only the requested information:<\/p>\n DR#: Here enter \u201cARCDRILL1120\u201d<\/p>\n Incident Name: Here Enter \u201cRed Cross Message Drill\u201d<\/p>\n Message#: Here Enter \u201c001\u201d If you send more than 1 message use \u201c002\u201d, \u201c003\u201d<\/p>\n Precedence: This is almost ALWAYS \u201cRoutine\u201d<\/p>\n To (Name and Position): ARCATLANTIC<\/p>\n From (Name and Position): Here Enter Your Name and Callsign<\/p>\n Subject: Here Enter \u201cRed Cross Messaging Drill 11-20\u201d<\/p>\n Date: The form should add the date. Press enter<\/p>\n Time: The form should add the time, Press enter<\/p>\n Message: For the message itself, enter the following information: The Town and State that you are in. (Example: Dayton, OH)<\/p>\n How you connect to send the message, HF, VHF, UHF, Telnet<\/p>\n Are you a solo operator of member of a team? (Note, to keep things simple I intend to submit a solo report as I have not found the answers to the team questions) Approved by: Here Enter your name and callsign<\/p>\n Position\/Title: Here enter your affiliation, i.e. ARES, Red Cross, AUXCOM, etc. If none, enter \u201cNONE\u201d<\/p>\n if you are an ARES leader, add title i.e. EC, DEC, SEC or other.<\/p>\n Here are links to the Red Cross Drill Instructions<\/a> and a sample ARC-213<\/a> filled out using those instructions. (Click on the file images that come up in order to open the PDF)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
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**THIS IS A DRILL** **THIS IS A DRILL**<\/p>\n
If a team:
How many operators? Team Name?
In your group how many are Winlink capable?
How many ARES, Red Cross or other?<\/p>\n