Ohio SEC Notes & Stuff - Week 38 - 2013
For public distribution.
Please forward as appropriate.
These notes will also be available on the ARES page at www.arrl-ohio.org Ohio Digital Emergency
Net (OHDEN) <http://ohden.org> Tues at 8PM. 3585 kHz and 7072 kHz Upper Side Band. Ohio HF Net by W8SGT.
Tues at 7PM on 3875 kHz and 7240 kHz Lower Side Band.
Preparedness Leads to Readiness
I am going to try and keep this week's Ohio SEC Notes
& Stuff brief. I have been out sick
all week.
~~HOT~~ Statewide Simulated Emergency Test update. The Statewide SET will be held on Saturday,
October 12th from Noon to Midnight. I
thank DEC Bob KC8WHK, ASEC Mark KB8YMN, Gallia County EC Matt KD8OMT, and ASEC
Gary WW8O for working diligently on this year's Statewide Simulated Emergency
Test.
Every incident in history begins local and ends
local. Considering ARES has always been
"grass roots" or a bottom up program, this year's Statewide SET will
be begin at home. Emergency Coordinators
or their designee will begin the SET at 12 Noon. Much like last year, Emergency Coordinators
or their designee should be focusing on Notification, Activation, Mobilization,
and Deployment. However, the SET
developers have decided not to include a scenario. Not only do I support their decision, I
totally agree that scenario is nowhere near as important as objectives. Regardless of scenario, the objectives will
more than likely stay the same such as notifying ARES personnel. Getting a net on the air. Volunteers check in for possible assignment,
etc etc. One thing I have learned as SEC
is that each county is different. This
means there is more than one way to achieve the mission. Therefore, each county is asked to develop a
set of objectives based upon strengths and weaknesses. For instance, perhaps your county ARES team
needs to learn more about NVIS antennas.
Make that one of your objectives. Perhaps your county ARES team does not do well
with simplex operations. Make that one
of your objectives. How you complete
those objectives are dependent upon your tactics and strategies.
All counties should be checking into the Ohio HF Net
during the Statewide SET which will be operational from the State of Ohio
EOC. All counties should have a
representative check into the Ohio Digital Emergency Net.
Both of these nets will be used to disseminate important
information to the Section. I have
attached a document prepared by my SET development team.
Should you have any questions or need further assistance,
feel free to contact DEC03 Bob KC8WHK at badge1@live.com
and or myself at w8dec@arrl.net.
Tomorrow, Sept 21, Ashtabula County ARES will be
conducting an NVIS and portable antenna exercise from Noon to 5PM local
time. All amateur radio operators are
encourages to participate. I am told the
Ohio EOC W8SGT Station will also be on the air from 3PM to 5PM. Contact Bob WD8PVB at wd8pvb@yahoo.com for details.
Cleveland Hamfest is Sunday, September 22nd at the
Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea, OH.
Please come and support the Cleveland Hamfest. Go to www.hac.org for
more information.
Next week, I am teaching amateur radio and radio basic
training to 90 volunteers from Crisis Response International at their disaster
response training. I performed this task
last year and enjoyed it very much and I very much appreciate the opportunity
to do it again.
EMCOMM EAST www.emcommeast.org
is coming up next weekend. There is
still room in the carpool or convoy.
Contact me directly if you're interested in attending. So far it's me, PIO Jackie N8JMW, ASEC Mark
KB8YMN, and OES Dave NF8O.
That is all for this week. I thank you for everything you do for amateur
radio.
73 de Matt W8DEC