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NTS

NTS and ARRL Field Day 2020

June 24, 2020June 23, 2020
NTS Radiogram

Earn 200 bonus points for Field Day

Categories News Tags field day, NTS, NTSD, RRI

NTS, a red stamp, and guerrilla marketing

January 16, 2020September 16, 2019
RRI Radiogram Stamp Logo

After a gigantic fail on attempting to send Field Day messages onward, I just mailed them myself.

Categories Uncategorized Tags NTS, promotion, Radio Relay International, radiogram

Radio Relay International explains themselves

February 2, 2020March 12, 2018
HamRadioNow #394 on Radio Relay Intl.

Representatives from the newly formed Radio Relay International speak with Ham Radio Now to provide perspectives on where NTS radiograms fit into today’s amateur and non-amateur commo landscape.

Categories News Tags ARRL, Emcomm, Ham Radio Now, NTS, NTSD, Radio Relay International, RRI, traffic

HF packet system or bust

May 3, 2018October 4, 2017
If VOACAP is half right about HF, opportunity awaits for the VAPN systems.

Waiting for a spot on the mountain shouldn’t prevent adding tremendously useful HF access to the VAPN system so that’s exactly what we are going to do in the lowlands.

Categories News Tags health and welfare, HF, HFPacket, NTS, Robust Packet, Tracker, VOACAP

Final reckoning of several Field Day NTS radiograms

September 19, 2017September 18, 2017
Mailing NTS Radiograms

Three months after the 2017 ARRL Field Day, several radiograms are finally delivered to their recipients despite the mystery revolving around moving NTS messages digitally.

Categories News Tags field day, NTS, Outpost, radiogram, USPS

VAPN available for FD 2017 Virginia area

September 18, 2017June 19, 2017

Two hundred (200) bonus points are available to ARRL Field Day participants who can relay NTS messages off site via RF and VAPN provides this service in the Northern Virginia area.

Categories News Tags 1200, 1200bps, 2m, field day, NTS, VHF

Radio Relay Revolution?

October 12, 2016October 11, 2016
Image used under license from Shutterstock.com/Image used under license from Shutterstock.com

Fracturing in the NTS organizational paradigm has spawned a well organized resistance movement based on quantifiable successes in the Cascadia Rising FEMA simulation. Viva la revolución?!?!?

Categories News Tags ARRL, FEMA, NTS, NTSD, PACTOR, QNI, Radio Relay International

NTS organizational kerfuffle

September 8, 2019October 3, 2016
NTS Radiogram

What do FEMA, the ARRL and the National Traffic System (NTS) have in common? A lawsuit of course.

Categories News Tags ARRL, FEMA, lawsuit, NTS
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