GAARES-P2P NET RESULTS & MAPPING FOR SUN 15-DEC-2024
A copy of this document in pdf format is attached to the posting on the gaares.groups.io site for your convenience and future reference.
Thanks to Kory, W4RZ for serving as the primary NCS today. Murdock, W4JNR backed him up as alternate and also backed up ND1J on the 30m TRIAL today.
Callsigns checking in today: 32 (plus W4RZ)
Check-in msgs – 80m: 24
Check-in msgs – 40m: 23
Check-in msgs – 30m TRIAL: 25
Total Check-in msgs: 72
ALL messages were correctly addressed to the tactical callsign GAARES-P2P.
30M TRIAL:
25 stations checked in on 30m and coverage over all of Georgia was good. See map link below. One additional station connected but did not send a check-in message. Frankly, I was surprised that this trial went as well as it did. Having done a great deal of 30m work in regional areas, I did not expect statewide propagation to be this good. That said, the signals were noticeably weaker on 30m as I was listening to the calls coming in. Messages were getting through but many of them not nearly as fast as the other bands. The jury is still out on whether this would be a viable band for us. The first hour or so, starting at 0800, 30m was still on long skip and I could barely hear faint signals from stations checking in that were in the Atlanta area, close to me. By 10 am, signal strength had increased considerably and a few stations had fantastic throughput speeds.
IF YOU ATTEMPTED TO CHECK INTO THE 30M PORTION AND WERE UNSUCCESSFUL, PLEASE CONTACT ME WITH DETAILS: Callsign, your location, time you tried, frequency, what callsign you were calling, and what happened or didn’t. Did you call and not get an answer? Did you get replies but signal was too weak, etc.
FUN QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
You are transmitting a simulated Emcomm message via P2P to a Net Control Station during an exercise and encounter extremely slow throughput. You should:
A. Consider aborting the connection so that others may connect
B. Press on and try to get the message through
C. Never abort in this situation because it’s the Target Station who should abort
D. None of the above
Answer A is correct. Explanation:
The key to this question is seeing “simulated……during an exercise” in the question. This is not a real Emcomm event. If it were, there might be a legitimate reason to continue because the message could be critical. In this case, however, that was not the case. Continuing may result in many other messages never making it through. You shouldn’t tie up a station receiving Emcomm traffic for 20 mins unless it is really important to do so.
Answer B could very well be the best answer in an actual emergency situation, but even then, only if it was a critical message, which would be rare.
Choice C: In an exercise, the NCS should consider aborting if the transfer message is extremely slow and the sender is not doing so. Of course, NCS needs to consider how busy things are and if there is likely other traffic waiting. The sender should have the self-discipline and courtesy to take the abort action and not put it on the NCS.
D Not the correct answer
Answers reported in check-in messages today are below. If you sent more than one check-in msg, we counted your answer only once. If you gave different answers, we took the answer in your final message.
A 22 (69 % chose A)
B 9 (28% chose B)
C 1
D zero
No answer 5
Total 38 callsigns
GAARES-P2P NET MAP LINKS for 2024-12-08
80m Map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1ubyPFP0tTCmrlLcF5tY2bCufES-BX44&usp=sharing
40m Map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1ZBi_Xb7W0giKLeUE_OcLizP9sOmL7MA&usp=sharing
60m TRIAL Map:
GAARES-P2P 60m TRIAL 2024-12-15
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1cYcMoH6I-QAtTnsXek1wHV9__9Yysa4&usp=sharing
Next week, we may mix it up a little and give stations a choice of checking in with either a short check-in or a Winlink template. See instructions late this week. We will also have a Fun Question of the Week for that net.
73-
David – ND1J
GAARES-P2P Net Manager