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Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN)

AREDN Overview

"The AREDN acronym stands for "Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network" and it provides a way for Amateur Radio operators to create high-speed ad hoc Data Networks for use in Emergency and service-oriented communications."

"For many years amateur radio operators and their served agencies have relied on voice transmissions for emergency or event communications. A typical message-passing scenario involved conveying the message to a radio operator who would write or type it onto a standard ICS-213 form. The message would then be relayed by radio to another operator who would write or type it on another ICS-213 form at the receiving end. The form would typically be hand-delivered to the recipient who would read and sign the form. Any acknowledgement or reply would then be handled through the same process from the receiving end back to the originator."

"This tried-and-true scenario has worked well, and it continues to work for handling much emergency and event traffic. Today, however, digital transmission is more commonly used instead of traditional methods and procedures. The hardcopy ICS-213 form is giving way to the Winlink electronic form, with messages being passed using digital technologies such as AX.25 packet, HF Pactor, Fldigi, and others."

"The primary goal of the AREDN project is to empower licensed amateur radio operators to quickly and easily deploy high-speed data networks when and where they are needed." - The ARDEN Project - More at GitHub

ARDEN Home Page

See The Canadian Amateur (TCA) magazine, May-June 2023, "The Beginning of the Mid-Island ARDEN Network"
Mid-Island-AREDN-Mesh-Network Groups.io

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