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support Chester County ARES/RACES on-air training exercises.
Take a look at the current exercise and please, join
in. You will find you can join in and have fun no matter when you start.
Go to 101 Tips to see the latest list of tips.
Go to the Hall of Fame to see the Leaders.
Exercise 1 - "How to effectively set up and operate Radio Email for
ARES/RACES: 101 Tips"
Player Instructions:
COME PLAY WITH US! This is a radio e-mail exercise (game) called
"101 Tips". Our goal is to generate 101 practical tips that can increase the effectiveness of
our ARES/RACES radio email operations.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? Five things:
1. You participate in a fun game.
2. You learn practical tips to improve your digital operating skills.
3. You get very familiar with your rig and your software.
4. You practice your craft while playing the game.
5. You achieve fame: You get points and, if you are one of the five top scorers, get your name placed in the Hall of Fame.
HOW TO PLAY. Send us radio email messages containing practical tips on how to
effectively plan, set up, and operate a radio email station for ARES/RACES. Keep your tips brief (three or four sentences and not more than 50 words). Send us at least one tip and not more than five tips before the deadline.
HOW TO WIN. Any new tip (which is different from the sample tips listed below) earns you 10 points. In addition, our panel of judges will select the top three tips at the end of each round. The best tip receives a bonus score of 70 points, the second-best 30 points, and the third-best 10 points. If you are among the top five scorers, your name is added to our Hall of Fame. This list is updated at the end of each round.
HOW TO CHEAT. Reflect on your own experience as an operator and derive important tips. We also encourage you to borrow ideas from your friends and
colleagues. Pick the brains of your nearest guru. You can read books, attend workshops, interview experts, and surf the Internet to collect
operating tips and rewrite them in your own words (or just cut and paste, if you
must!). Obviously, we don't want you to violate copyright laws and we do want you to give credit where it is due.
HOW TO SEND YOUR TIPS. Create a radio email with each tip in the main
body. Title your tip in the subject line. Remember the limit of five tips per round.
The deadline for the each weekly round is 11:59 PM Sunday.
Send your tips directly to us at w3eoc@winlink.org BY ANY RF PATH using
Winlink. (Messages sent by regular email or by Telnet are not eligible!) Include your call sign in your e-mail note.
Make your messages look like this:
To: w3eoc@winlink.org
cc: [anybody]
Subject: 101 Tips - Operating on VHF/UHF
You can use Airmail's address book to pre-prepare forms. For NTS messages,
damage assessment forms, or whatever, this saves time and solves many problems
if information must be standardized. Simply fill out an address entry and add
prompts in a column down the message body. Save the item with a friendly name
that helps you remember what this is. See the next tip for an idea that helps
keep Address Book entries organized, and easy to find.
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WHAT NEXT? We will continue this game until Sunday, October 16, 2005 or until we accumulate at least 101 tips, whichever comes first.
Every round we will update the list of operating tips and place them on the CCAR
web site at http://www.w3eoc.org/RadioEmail/status.htm. Review this list frequently and continue sending additional tips that do not duplicate the tips already on the list.
MORE FAME. When the game ends, we will select the grand champion with the highest score. We will also vote for the five best tips. And we will honor the person who sent the most tips.
CATEGORIES OF TIPS. For ease of reference, we have organized the tips into several categories. Please refer to the current list of tips.
The starter list is below.
HOW TO CATEGORIZE YOUR TIPS. You can send your tip without specifying any category. Or you may suggest a suitable category. You may even suggest a brand-new category. Some tips may fit into more than one category.
Categories:
Choosing hardware and software
Deploying within 2 hours of the call
Setting up your station - Hardware
Setting up your station - Software
Operating on HF
Operating on VHF/UHF
Using Paclink as an email Server with tactical addressing
Sending internet email
Sending messages peer-to-peer
Using Airmail as a Hubbing Server
Dealing with an agency's email needs
Setting up and running a portable Telpac gateway
THANK YOU for participating.
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