A small crew of members came together on February 25 to upgrade the first 10 units. HEMBC donated 18 single band deployable radio station kits that we are upgrading to dual band for voice and Winlink email.

Last year, we evaluated how well New Packet Radio would work on our 0.7 cm band.

Winlink email with an 85 kB DFU file took 20 seconds over NPR at Modulation Mode 11 from field to GMail (through the EOC and Winlink Global Email system via Telnet). Winlink reported 156 kB per minute.

The same 85 kB file takes much longer over 1200 packet; 30 minutes at 3.3 kB/min to send with 1200 packet over radio with the RMS radio in the same room, or 4 minutes at 22 kB/min with 9600 packet (or less than 1 second at 746 kB/min with Telnet over 100 Mbps Ethernet).

Feasibly send large file attachments with Winlink (message size limit is 120 kB).

Mode 11 needed very strong signal to get 0% bit error rate (better than -80dBm).

Last year, we evaluated how smoothly a Yaesu FTM-6000 would suit our needs.

Last year, we served at events and sites in a variety of ways. Ask us about what you see in the photos.

• 2023-03-11 at Dunbar Community Centre
• 2023-04-22 at Kerrisdale Community Centre
• 2023-05-27 at DEEP’s Disaster Support Hub drill
• 2023-07-08 for our mini-COL prep drill
• 2023-07-22 at Celebration of Light
• 2023-08-27 at Punjabi Market Live
• 2024-01-27 for our Winter Field Day

VECTOR resumed in-person classes this fall at Vancouver City Hall. This time we had courses for both the Basic and Advanced qualifications.

VECTOR resumed in-person classes this fall at Vancouver City Hall. This time we had courses for both the Basic and Advanced qualifications.

Exercise: Set up and run a VECTOR remote site to follow Net Control through tests on every mode in the station.

Exercise: Set up and run a VECTOR remote site to follow Net Control through tests on every mode in the station.

Exercise: Set up and run a VECTOR remote site to follow Net Control through tests on every mode in the station.

LoRa APRS at 1 W performs comparable to narrow FM APRS at 5 W.
Yet, LoRa gives more accuracy from fewer lost data points. (More about APRS, LoRa)

LoRa modules allow people to use smartphones to send short messages without using the cell network. The Meshtastic app allows people to send messages to all nodes on the network.