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ARRL National Traffic System Information:

• ARRL NTS Methods and Practices Guidelines

• ARRL NTS Table of Contents

• ARRL NTS Digital

• ARRL Radiograms

• ARRL ARL Numbered Radiograms

• ARRL Net Directory Search

• ARRL Region SSB and CW Net Schedule

• ARRL Public Service Communications Manual Section II: The National Traffic System

Various sources of useful information:

• NTS Eastern Area WB2FTX

• NTS Pacific Area K7BFL

• NTS Routing Codes outside US

• NTS Simplified by N8UT

• NTS Tools K7BFL

• NTS K2UL

• NTS Transcontinental Corps

• NTS CW Netiquette

• NTSD Florida

• NTSD Canada VE3BDM

• NTSD N3QA Message Example

• NTS NTSD Power Point Introduction by N2GS and WB2FTX

• Federal Communications Commission

• Phone and Address Lookup

• International Third Party Agreements

• ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee Report March 2003

• Learn about Pactor

• Calculate the center frequency, mark frequency, and dial frequency

• Setting up a Packet station and setting deviation

• WX4J ARES / NTS / Digital

• ARES - NTS - NTSD - Winlink 2000 = Radio Email

• APRSLink

• Comments of Hans-Peter Helfert to FCC - March 2006

Hardware:

• Kantronics

• Paccomm

• Timewave

• Special Communications Systems - SCS - developers of PACTOR

Software:

• Airmail -- helps an individual station send and receive messages.  It works well with Winlink 2.9/3.0 for NTSD, Winlink 2000 Telpac Gateways, Winlink 2000 PMBOs, or another Airmail station.  This is the program to use unless you want to do automated routing and be a major central hub.  It works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, XP, and 2000 and supports SCS modems, KAM+, KAM-98, KAM XL, KPC-3 (VHF only), KPC-3+ (VHF only), AEA/Timewave PK232 later versions after about 1995 with expert mode (versions 7.1 and 7.2 work; some have had success with 7.0; some are ASCII only), PK-900, DSP-1232,  DSP-2232, MFJ 1276 and 1278B (ASCII Only), and Hal DXP-38.  It includes modules for HF, VHF, Telnet, POP mail server and client, and does position reporting.  It started from meager beginnings, a PK232 and AmTor, from the South Pacific to Oregon.

• Winlink 2.9 or Winlink Classic -- for NTSD MBOs -- If you want to send, receive, and forward messages unattended over HF, then this is the way to do it.  The software is no longer available from the winlink.org web site, but may be available from other sources.

• Winlink Classic 2.9 / 3.0 Software -- assorted files for NTSD users from W4ZJY

• Winlink 2000 -- or "WL2K" is not the same as Winlink 2.9/3.0 for NTSD MBOs -- but is a very nice, flexible, and versatile system rather than a particular program. It is a worldwide radio digital message transfer system.  It is used in a growing number of ARES plans and in the Digital NTS system in addition to RVers and Boaters around the world. 

  Last modified:  October 03, 2008 09:10 PM