I had cross posted the information on the HFDEC group as I felt this was important that the members at least know about this.
Because NBEMS has not performed well on HF, compared to VHF, I am not sure how effective this will work, but it is certainly worth a try. My personal preference is FAE modes, especially FAE400, but it is only available on Multipsk and MS Windows OS, while NBEMS is cross platform Windows/Linux and the basic modes can use PSK31 to make a contact even with someone not familiar with NBEMS or who don't have the ARQ mode installed. The data modes will not be handled by the HQ stations and if you are using Winlink 2000 or PSKmail apparently there is not attempt at relaying, you just send an e-mail to the data collection point in Great Britain at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Other digital text data stations will apparently attempt to use the national bandplan frequencies for their respective countries. They ask that you register by e-mail at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] before the exercise, but I am not sure how we coordinate the frequencies for specific modes. My thinking is that we would go just above the PSK31 watering holes (especially above 7070 and 14070) and call CQ Globalset and see if anyone comes back. Then if they do, you can send them the message and if they have something similar, they can send theirs to you and then either station can then try and find one more station, relay the message, and that receiving station on this second relay, can forward it via e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So if we are operating data modes, we would not interact with the Region HQ station. If we are operating voice modes, we would contact the HQ station, primarily on 20 meters at 14.300 MHz and then move off to pass the traffic. For a printable pdf file (2 pages) of the procedures: http://www.iaru-r1.org/GlobalsetMay08Rules.pdf 73, Rick, KV9U Andrew O'Brien wrote: > -Anyone have any thoughts on how we might use Skip/Dave's NBEMS for > this test ? > > Rick, any interest in chairing efforts of Digitalradio or your HFDEC > group and seeing if we can spark some interest ? > > > Andy K3UK > >
