The Vericode Project is a weekly based ‘scavenger hunt’, of sorts, where participants hunt down the Vericode and the Supplemental Vericode from the AmRRON nets. When combined, they make the password to unlock a weekly entry of the fictional Partisan Operator Journals.
Here’s a brief rundown of how folks who are interested can participate in the Veri-Code
Project, and an overview of the process.
If you haven’t done so already, familiarize yourself with the article linked below,
titled ‘AIB Veri-Code: Layered Training with Rewards’. Don’t skip it.
The Process:
- Beginning February 2023 we plan to resume posting a new Journal entry each week.
- A Partisan Operator Journal entry will be posted each Monday at approximately Noon (Pacific)
on the Partisan Operator Journal page. But you won’t be able to read it without
the Vericode (included in each Tuesday’s AIB); and the Supplemental VeriCode (available ONLY during
scheduled AmRRON Nets, and by relay from other stations for one hour after the close of a net). - NCSs are responsible for seeking out and acquiring the Supplemental VeriCode as
part of their preparation for their upcoming scheduled net(s). - During regularly-scheduled practice nets, NCSs are responsible for disseminating the Net Word of the Week, the weekly AIB, and the AIB Supplemental VeriCode during each of their nets.
This is official AmRRON traffic.
Q & A:
- Q: What if Net Control doesn’t put out the NWOTW, weekly AIB, or Supplemental VeriCode?
A: Then simply request it from them - Q: What if NCS doesn’t have the NWOTW, the AIB, or Supplemental VeriCode?
A: Then NCS should query the net to determine if one of the operators in his net acquired
the traffic from a previous net. Those stations can send the traffic to NCS for
distribution to the net. - Q: What if I’m not available during scheduled net times?
A: Leave your station and fldigi (and flamp) programs open and running while you’re away.
This is a common practice and it’s rewarding and exciting to come back into the shack to find
traffic your station received while you were away. - Q: What if I do all that and still don’t get the AIB or Supplemental VeriCode?
A: That’s the nature of radio and happens even in real-world emergency communications.
Keep trying to check in to other scheduled AmRRON nets throughout the week. If you miss one,
there will be a new Journal entry on the next go around.
Per step three under the process heading, the nets are listed for Mondays and Tuesdays. I just received the newest SOI and it said the National Net is on Wednesday and the Regional and local nets are on Thursday. Could you clarify this for me?
OK, I can download the AIB through Flamp. How do I view it?
An excellent and comprehensive FLAMP guide can be found at:
http://w1hkj.com/flamp-help/index.html
Short answer: When you receive a file in FLAMP, and assuming you went through the setup, files are stored in your NBEMS > FLAMP > RX. You can get to it from the FLAMP program by clicking the ‘File’ tab, then ‘Folders’ from the dropdown menu, then the ‘RX’ folder. To open the messages, right click and select ‘FLMSG’ if you’ve downloaded and set up your FLMSG program and custom AmRRON Forms properly installed. If you haven’t done that, you can right click on the message file and open with any text editor (Wordpad, Notepad, GEDIT, etc.). It won’t be properly formatted and will be in it’s raw form, but you’ll still at least be able to read the text. Hope that helps.
-JJS
Just decrypted the Interlude and Reintroduction 2023. Great exercise and looking forward to the usual great content.