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BULLETIN
KUDOS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ALACHUA COUNTY EMWIN SYSTEM
759 AM EST FRI JAN 25 2013


ALACHUA COUNTY EMWIN RETRANSMISSION SYSTEM (AC-EMWIN)
KUDOS and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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So much effort went into getting this project running.  We'd
like to offer our sincerest thanks to the following individuals,
clubs, groups, agencies, and companies for sharing some part of
the effort and/or responsibility in some way or another.  This is
truly a cooperative endeavor:

  o Alachua Co. Office of Emergency Management (ACOEM) -
  For their support of the concept, and for letting us know
  about the existence of the equipment offer from FDEM, and for
  putting us in contact with the right people.

  o Alachua Co. Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (AC-RACES) -
  For providing manpower and support of the project concept.

  o Alachua Co. SKYWARN -
  For providing manpower and support of the project concept.

  o Fla. Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) -
  For providing us with thousands of dollars worth of the
  equipment necessary to get an EMWIN transmitting station on
  the air here in Alachua County.

  o Gainesville Amateur Radio Society (GARS) -
  For providing manpower and support of the project concept.

  o Gator Amateur Radio Club (GARC), Univ. of Fla. -
  For initially providing manpower to help get this project going,
  and keeping it operating; and for providing space inside of their
  club station for the majority of the equipment, and access to
  it; for providing access to their own network; and for taking
  on the operating costs (utility and phone bills).

  o Gator Paging and Cellular - Thanks to Tom Woodruff for
  programming the EMWIN pagers that were donated to us, and for
  reboarding and retuning them to the Shands Communications pager
  frequency for us - at no charge.

  o J.H. Miller Health Science Center, Univ. of Fla. -
  For providing a rooftop location for the satellite dish and
  the transmitting antenna.  Without that access to the rooftop,
  this project would not exist.

  o Shands Communications - Thanks to Scott Preston for providing a
  free service by which to use the donated EMWIN pagers (Motorola
  Advisors) - with which we were able to test EMWIN paging
  capabilities and provide the latest weather bulletins to certain
  local public service volunteers.

  o Shannon Boal/KG4NGY -
  For supplying the concrete blocks necessary to hold down the
  satellite dish; and help in assembling and putting up the
  transmitting antenna and satellite receiver dish, and for aiding
  in the assembly and installation of the transmit antenna.

  o Jim Carr/KC4MHH - Cat5 cabling, connectors, crimping, creating
  a cable for me that connected the EMWIN computer to the EMWIN
  transmitter.

  o Joseph DiPietro/N2UF, RF Engineers -
  For his technical assistance and expertise, and for donating
  so much of his own time, equipment, and resources to the
  project; for aiding in the assembly and installation of the
  transmit antenna, and in the installation of the satellite
  receiving dish, and helping to route the coax.

  o John Fleming/WD4FFX, Technical Services, Fla. Division of
  Emergency Management - for delivering the equipment to us;
  for his help and advice in getting everything up and running;
  and for being there to answer all of our silly questions.

  o Danny Lloyd - Creator of WxMessage software, for help in
  learning WxMesg, and debugging immediately when problems were
  encountered, and for answering e-mails within hours.

  o Brad Tyler - For donation of mounting hardware and misc.
  related parts for satellite dish; mounting and aligning the
  dish; for providing grounding straps, coax, zip ties and other
  similar supplies; for his technical assistance and expertise,
  and for his time.

  o Scott West/KG4VWD - For the CAT-5 cables and network card;
  and for crimping the necessary connectors; for setting up the
  EMWIN computer to run on the Gator Club's network; and for his
  time.

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Alachua County SKYWARN
E-mail:  skywarn@afn.org

Page Created: February 10, 2003.
Last Updated: September 21, 2003.

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