Just for the record... My original comments were made tongue in cheek.... But
for the record....
NTS Digital operates 24/7 on 80, 40, 30, 20, 17, and 15 meters... There are
mutiple stations that do this, again primarily dedicated to NTS traffic... Some
of the delivery points are made through packet links, the rest are by
individual liasions to the traditional NTS system...For the month of October
2008, Eastern Area NTSD (and that's Eastern Area only, Central and Pacific also
have their own totals) handled over 10,000 NTS messages....
73 Dave WB2FTX
Eastern Area Digital Coordinator- NTSD
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Subject: [illinoisdigitalham] Re: [psk31] Global Emergency Network Marks
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Gee,
I kinda of thought that NTS Digital had been doing this for the past 10 or 15
years on a 24/7 basis, maybe I was mislead.
Dave WB2FTX
Eastern Area Digital Coordinator - NTS Digital
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Subject: [psk31] Global Emergency Network Marks Record
http://www.arrl.org/?artid=8610
Global Emergency Network Marks Record (Nov 19, 2008) -- The Global ALE High
Frequency Network (HFN) -- an international Amateur Radio Service organization
of ham operators dedicated to emergency/relief radio communications -- has
become the first network to operate continuously for more than 500 days on all
international Amateur Radio shortwave bands simultaneously. According to HFN
International ALE Coordinator Bonnie Crystal, KQ6XA, the main purpose of the
Network is to provide efficient emergency and disaster relief communications to
remote areas of the world. "Beginning with a core group of six North American
radio operators in June 2007, HFN rapidly expanded to cover large areas of the
planet with 24/7 digital communications," she said."HFN was designed to be an
open framework for global Amateur Radio emergency services to interoperate on
HF using the Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) system." Relying on ionospheric
radio communications,
interconnected HFN base stations scan the radio bands every 10 seconds,
from 3.5 MHz-28.0 MHz. Through this Net, Crystal said, ham operators stay
connected with each other at all hours of the day or night in any mode of
operation, and can send Internet e-mail or cell phone mobile text messages from
the field."
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