Various digital data modes suited for emergency use

Mark Friedlander, KV4I

Assistant Emergency Coordinator\Digital Emcomm Officer Volusia Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

KV4I@ARRL.NET

Common Digital Emcomm Data Tools

- Winlink 2000 (AKA WL2K)- D-RATS- NBEMS (Narrow Band Emergency Messaging System)

- COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf Software) on HSMM-MESH

Winlink 2000- Email to Internet email gateways or peer to peer- Transport mechanisms & hardware

- HF- modes = Pactor or Winmor- HF radio, computer & modem or soundcard

interface- VHF\UHF

- mode = 1200 or 9600 Packet- VHF\UHF radio, computer & TNC or

soundcard interface- Internet

- mode = telnet over TCP\IP- computer

Winlink 2000 Software- Paclink (Windows XP – 7 only)

- also requires: Email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) and AGWPE (if using soundcard)

- VHF via TNC or soundcard interface- Telnet via Internet

- RMS Express (Windows XP – 7 only)- No other software needed- VHF via Packet over TNC (no soundcards)- Telnet via Internet- HF via Pactor or Winmor (Winmor is a

soundcard mode)

http://www.winlink.org

Live RMS Packet Station Positions 1/30/2012

Winlink 2000

KB9LEB-10

KV4EOC-10

N3PPC-10

N0IA-10N4ZZO-10

N1FL-10

N4PLZ-10

Live Winmor Stations 1/30/2012

Winlink 2000

http://www.d-rats.com

D-RATS- Windows, Linux and MacOSX- Messaging

- Peer to peer over RF or Internet- Message routing via other stations- Supports SMTP & POP & Telnet

- You can send:- Messages to another station over RF or

Internet- WL2K email via Telnet- Messages to any Internet or WL2K addressee

via gateway stations or Internet- Real time chat – in one group or private channels- File transfers- GPS tracking

D-RATS- Transport mechanisms & hardware

- VHF\UHF Digital- modes = DSTAR DV, DSTAR DD- VHF\UHF DSTAR radio, computer & data

cable- VHF\UHF Analog

- mode = 1200 or 9600 Packet- VHF\UHF analog radio, computer & TNC (or

AGWPE & soundcard interface)- Internet

- modes = SMTP, POP and Telnet over TCP\IP- computer

NBEMS

- Peer to peer messaging and file transfer- Suite of five software components:

- Fldidgi – digital modem for soundcard- Flarq – ARQ ( Automatic Repeat-reQuest) file

transfer- Flwrap – file encapsulation \ compression- Flmsg – forms manager- Flrig – rig control program for some

transceivers (see http://w1hkj.com/flrig-help/flrig_rigs.html for list)

- Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX- Various digital modes for HF\VHF\UHF

Narrow Band Emergency Messaging System

http://www.w1hkj.com

High Speed Multi Media Mesh

HSMM-MESH.ORG

HSMM-MESH- A wireless Ham Internet AKA the “Hinternet”- Can be free standing or connected to Internet- Uses COTS hardware for radio – Linksys

WRT54Gx routers- Transmits on UHF (802.11g channel 1, 2.142

GHz)- Can use any TCP\IP compatible COTS software

- SMTP-POP email clients- Email servers- Web servers- Web cams- D-RATS- WL2K Telnet- Focus Phone Video Chat- IP cameras

High Speed Multi-Media MESH

PC for D-RATS PC for D-RATS RatFlector, RatFlector, Webserver,Webserver,

VHF RMS Node & HF VHF RMS Node & HF WL2KWL2K

KV4EOKV4EOC-100C-10010.236.10.236.68.68.x2x2

Node Node UsersUsers

MESH MESH NodeNode

100BaseTX Ethernet cables

WL2K WL2K Telnet Telnet emailemail

Internet Internet emailemail

Internet

VHF RMS NodeKV4EOC-10

East facing24 db parabolic 2.4GHz antenna

West facing24 db parabolic 2.4GHz antenna

DSTAR D-RATS over RF

Winlink 2000 HF Gateway

Data cables

HSMM-MESH

Icom ID-1 DSTAR Radio

1.2 GHz (1240-1300 MHz)

Max speed 128 Kbps

Linksys (Cisco) WRT54GL

2.4 GHz (2401–2483 MHz)

Max speed 54 Mbps(432 times faster)

Amateur RadioFrequency Allocation

23 Centimeter Band

1240 – 1300 MHz

Amateur RadioFrequency Allocation13 Centimeter Band

2300 – 2450 MHzPart 97 overlap = 2401-2448

MHzChannels 1-6

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HSMM-MESH

Thank you,Mark Friedlander KV4I, MCSEKV4I@ARRL.NET