FEMA Multi-regional Exercise, July 9, 2025

FEMA New Madrid Exercise, Winlink SitReps

FEMA sponsored a multi-regional exercise on July 9. The scenario was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake centered on Memphis, TN (the New Madrid fault). Steve K4CJX, prepared the instructions for the exercise and arranged for them to be widely distributed. Field Situation Reports were submitted by participants via Winlink. During the event, we received a total of 1,119 reports. This is a map showing locations of submitted reports.

VARA Products Now Downloadable Here

VARA Products, including VARA HF, VARA FM, VARA Chat, VARA Sat, and VARA Terminal, are now hosted on the Winlink Servers for distribution. You can visit the downloads site at https://downloads.winlink.org. Click on the link to VARA Products once there. We hope you find this a convenient and quick way to obtain these program files. The files are maintained by Jose Nieto Ros, the VARA author, and they remain third-party products and are not managed by the Winlink Team.

73,
The Winlink Team

Pactor 4 Becomes Legal January 8

January 7, 2024 -- Happy New Year!

RMS Gateway Sysops within the USA and it's Territories are urged to configure Pactor 4 if you are equipped to do so. At midnight in your US timezone, Monday, January 8 the FCC rule change removing digital mode symbol rate limits on amateur radio HF bands becomes effective. Pactor 4 becomes a legal mode in the USA.

--Winlink Development Team

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