ARRL Iowa Section Winlink Exercises

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The goal of Iowa Section Winlink Exercises is to enable learning and practicing the use of the Winlink programs to prepare for their use with the agencies we intend to serve.

ARRL IA SET 3-23-24

We will be practicing the various message forms we can expect to be asked to use.

Specific suggestions are welcome, especially incident scenarios and which forms to use. Planned scenarios include:
There were 2 exercises in 2023 that were not Winlink, but were fun and very important. Both were part of the ARRL's Volunteers on the Air (VOTA) recognition event which ran all year 2023.
The first was W1AW portable. Each state and territory had 2 weeks in 2023 to host this legendary callsign.
The other was the all-year VOTA. To participate, you just got on the air and made contacts.
All scoring was done by Logbook of the World. To earn leaderboard points, nothing else was needed.
To hand out leaderboard points, you only needed to be an ARRL member and log your contacts to LotW.
The VOTA information page has the searchable standings.