Simulated Emergency Test (SET) Exercise

Aloha and welcome! I'm WH6AZ, here to bring you high signal insights about radio mail, the win link iPhone application I created. Let's get to it! Today I'm going to show you how you can participate in a simulated emergency test. The scenario for this test is that a severe weather has generated a hurricane in close proximity to all Hawaiian Island. Internet service are down, phone connection or out and we're going to help the National Weather Service by sending a weather report. So let's open radio mail and let me walk you through how it's done. But first we need to prepare a few things before the exercise starts. So I'm going to go ahead and bring the instruction here and we want to do two things. First we need to install some form that were made for the exercise. So we go to settings and forms and with radio mail you can install custom forms. So we're going to select that and before we can import them we actually need the form themselves. So I'm going to open a browser here and we're not going to download them from the win link website but they are actually provided on the Hawaii Arise site. So I'm going to go there and this describes the exercise for today October 14th and I'm going to go ahead and download the set template file. Now that I have the zip file on my phone I can go back to radio mail and import the form. Just navigate to my download folder and I can just pick up the template here. Great that's all I need for now. The other thing I need to do is there's going to be a station that we want to connect peer to peer over our HF and it's not going to be my session directory so I need to go and add it as a custom session. So I'll just go here and the instruction tells me it's going to be AH60 and we want to do a var/hf connection. The dial frequency is going to be 71.18 and we are going to use a bandwidth of 500 hertz. So to complete the form I just long press the compose button, compose with form and here's my form library. You can just scroll down and select the sky one report which is going to be a weather report here. So you know these a few things on the form here my call sign is already pre-populated as well as my location because it's using the GPS from the phone. So I'm going to add a few more field here, put my email address and my city, my county, state and the country here. And down below here that's where we fill the measurements. I have a weather station here at home so I'm going to make it market is measured and I'm going to put the number here five miles, not a lot of wind today, no gusts coming from the northeast. I'm going to also indicate that it's a dy station and then the pressure here is for some two MIDI bar and then of course very important is to mention that we see an exercise message. Okay looks pretty good. I'm going to go ahead and submit. So now I have a draft message that contains all the information from the form as well as the attachment with the data that is going to be machine readable. So on the other hand they can use that to map all the report automatically. You notice it's already addressed to the station I'm going to connect to. So I'm going to do one more thing here before I put it in the old box is that because we're going to do a peer-to-peer connection I'm going to expand this section here and I'm going to mark this message as peer-to-peer and the reason for that is only when the message is marked peer-to-peer it will only get delivered if you connect to the recipient here. So if I were to connect to the CMS for example that message would remain in my old box until such time as I connect to that station directly. So quite handy if you want to make sure that your message are already only delivered directly to the station you intend to connect to. Okay everything looks good I'm going to put it in your box and now the message is going to be sent and I'm going to step outside and we'll see if we can make a connection. Here we are outside with my field station. We have a bienno battery powering the T4 billing computer where the VAR-HF software modem is running. Connected the USB to the IC705 using the internal sound card of the IC705. Now let's see if we can connect to our station. I'm going to go ahead and bring up my favorite here see if we can find the station we've entered earlier. Within 40 meters there it is, H16. Let's see if we can make a connection. (birds chirping) (birds chirping) (birds chirping) (birds chirping) No success, maybe the security already. Okay, since I wasn't able to connect to that station peer to peer, maybe they are already. I want to have them create a new message, and this time I made sure it wasn't going to be delivered peer to peer. So, we'll go ahead and try to send it via a station here on Koai. That's hybrid participants, so actually they can really mail their radio even if the internet is down. So, that would be actually a good fallback in case that wouldn't happen. So, let's see if we can connect and send this email. (birds chirping) It's working this time. (birds chirping) Anyway, our message is being sent. (birds chirping) There you go, we're done. (Crickets chirping)