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Field
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Value
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subject
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ARES Form FSD-96
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State
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Ohio
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Month
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December
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Year
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2013
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Number_of_ARES_Members
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1756
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Change_In_Numbers
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0
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Number_of_DECs_EC_reporting_this_month
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10
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Number_of_ARES_nets_active
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0
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Number_of_nets_with_NTS_Liaison
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0
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DEC_EC_callsigns
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1-WD8PNZ, 2-W8UY, 3-KC8WHK, 4-N8TFD, 5-KC8PD, 6-W8MLL,
7-KA8RLC, 8-N8SUZ, 9-W8FHF, 10-N8AUC
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Number_of_drills_tests_and_training_this_month
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321
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Person_Hours_for_drill_tests_training
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2117.01
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Number_of_Public_Service_events
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10
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Person_Hours_for_public_service_events
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232
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Number_of_emergency_operations_this_month
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8
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Person_Hours_for_emergency_operations
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108
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Number_of_ARES_RACES_Events_this_month
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339
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Total_Person_Hours
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2457.01
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Comment
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See below for comments.
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Signature
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Matthew Welch W8DEC / Ohio SEC
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COMMENTS..
DISTRICT 1..
Totals include Northwest Ohio Training and Traffic and District 1 Skywarn net figures. Congratulations to Brenda Krukowski KB8IUP for her appointment as Lucas County Emergency Coordinator. Happy New Year and thanks for all your help in 2013.
Seneca County-EC Scott Rosenburger KE8JC Report submitted by AEC Steve Tarbert KC8ZKC Seneca County had moderate flooding along the Sandusky River in December with low lying areas of Tiffin involved.
Huron County-EC Clay Benner KB8DNA There were 2 Skywarn events for the county this month. Significant tree damage and some structure damage in Norwalk from the Nov 1 storm. Several man-hours working with CERT and completing Damage assessment reports. AEC and I attended the Ohio ARES conference. Thanks to Seth KD8RBP for accepting the appointment of AEC for Huron Co. Seth will be the net liaison to OSSBN and other outside nets as well as the State Digital Net. This report includes his net time hours .
Hancock County-EC Darl Deeds NA8W Busy month in Hancock County. We elected officer's for Hears and we have new leadership. We had a good turn out at our traffic handling training meeting and hope we have more checkins with the OSSN. I have built a sound card interface that was listed in the 2009 QST. We hope to make a club building project with it and use it for VHF FM ARES functions. We had a Christmas flood in Findlay and adjacent areas with some damage to homes but communications were maintained commercially and hams were not needed. Happy New Year from Hancock County.
Erie County-EC Bob Heim K8HLH Slow month, Many check-in's for our nets Happy New Year Matt & Brent
DISTRICT 2..
No weekly nets held on Xmas or NY Eve due to holiday.
DISTRICT 4..
Emergency Operations hours were in support of SkyWARN serving the National Weather Service at Wilmington. Planning for the Flying Pig Marathon and "public service event season" is heating up this polar winter in SW Ohio. Hamilton County Health Department, which is a strong primary partner of Hamilton County ARES, has a new command vehicle. Let's see if we can get some ham radio equipment on board!
DISTRICT 5..
Stark County: We had a total of 4 ARES Nets for the month of December that totaled 157 check-ins. There were no public service events during December. Work continues with updating our ARES roster and discussion of training plans and meetings for 2014. We have been informed by one of our ARES members of his intent to donate a Davis Instruments multi-purpose wireless weather station. It will be installed at Mercy Medical Center, home of our ARES Repeater and Winlink Relay station. This will be a great asset to our Skywarn Spotter program.
Totals include Northwest Ohio Training and Traffic and District 1 Skywarn net figures. Congratulations to Brenda Krukowski KB8IUP for her appointment as Lucas County Emergency Coordinator. Happy New Year and thanks for all your help in 2013.
Seneca County-EC Scott Rosenburger KE8JC Report submitted by AEC Steve Tarbert KC8ZKC Seneca County had moderate flooding along the Sandusky River in December with low lying areas of Tiffin involved.
Huron County-EC Clay Benner KB8DNA There were 2 Skywarn events for the county this month. Significant tree damage and some structure damage in Norwalk from the Nov 1 storm. Several man-hours working with CERT and completing Damage assessment reports. AEC and I attended the Ohio ARES conference. Thanks to Seth KD8RBP for accepting the appointment of AEC for Huron Co. Seth will be the net liaison to OSSBN and other outside nets as well as the State Digital Net. This report includes his net time hours .
Hancock County-EC Darl Deeds NA8W Busy month in Hancock County. We elected officer's for Hears and we have new leadership. We had a good turn out at our traffic handling training meeting and hope we have more checkins with the OSSN. I have built a sound card interface that was listed in the 2009 QST. We hope to make a club building project with it and use it for VHF FM ARES functions. We had a Christmas flood in Findlay and adjacent areas with some damage to homes but communications were maintained commercially and hams were not needed. Happy New Year from Hancock County.
Erie County-EC Bob Heim K8HLH Slow month, Many check-in's for our nets Happy New Year Matt & Brent
DISTRICT 2..
No weekly nets held on Xmas or NY Eve due to holiday.
DISTRICT 4..
Emergency Operations hours were in support of SkyWARN serving the National Weather Service at Wilmington. Planning for the Flying Pig Marathon and "public service event season" is heating up this polar winter in SW Ohio. Hamilton County Health Department, which is a strong primary partner of Hamilton County ARES, has a new command vehicle. Let's see if we can get some ham radio equipment on board!
DISTRICT 5..
Stark County: We had a total of 4 ARES Nets for the month of December that totaled 157 check-ins. There were no public service events during December. Work continues with updating our ARES roster and discussion of training plans and meetings for 2014. We have been informed by one of our ARES members of his intent to donate a Davis Instruments multi-purpose wireless weather station. It will be installed at Mercy Medical Center, home of our ARES Repeater and Winlink Relay station. This will be a great asset to our Skywarn Spotter program.
Updated our Calendar of Events that include a listing of the scheduled public service events we will assist with in 2014. Mahoning County: Lost one area AEC WR8RW Robert Webster left and moved to Greenville, SC. Restructuring local ARES. Report 2 days late due to issues with computer and power outage all last eve, during the SUB ZERO weather.
DISTRICT 6..
No county comments other than Richland and Wyandot.
RICHLAND - Richland County ARES had 4 nets and 1 SKYWARN net.
WYANDOT - The WAHOO Club met at the Corner Inn for their Annual Christmas Dinner Party Meeting. We shared a Christmas Feast and had a brief meeting when we elected Club officers for 2014. Bud Miller, KB8SHZ President. Jace Carlson, KF4HZV Vice President. Ron Wilch, KE8PX Secretary. Jerry Yirga, W8WPF Treasurer. We then discussed visiting other neighboring Radio Clubs to see what they do and try to get ideas to stimulate growth in our club. The Meeting ended with a White Elephant gift exchange which was enjoyed by all. "73"
DISTRICT 7..
DELAWARE: Delaware continues to improve fldigi capabilities. We've launched 3 digital capable go-bags. We're re-purposing ex sheriff radios for EMA/ARES applications. We helped EMA sort through a collection of older radios. We are working on additional antenna leads down to the EOC. A group continues experimenting with MESH.
DISTRICT 6..
No county comments other than Richland and Wyandot.
RICHLAND - Richland County ARES had 4 nets and 1 SKYWARN net.
WYANDOT - The WAHOO Club met at the Corner Inn for their Annual Christmas Dinner Party Meeting. We shared a Christmas Feast and had a brief meeting when we elected Club officers for 2014. Bud Miller, KB8SHZ President. Jace Carlson, KF4HZV Vice President. Ron Wilch, KE8PX Secretary. Jerry Yirga, W8WPF Treasurer. We then discussed visiting other neighboring Radio Clubs to see what they do and try to get ideas to stimulate growth in our club. The Meeting ended with a White Elephant gift exchange which was enjoyed by all. "73"
DISTRICT 7..
DELAWARE: Delaware continues to improve fldigi capabilities. We've launched 3 digital capable go-bags. We're re-purposing ex sheriff radios for EMA/ARES applications. We helped EMA sort through a collection of older radios. We are working on additional antenna leads down to the EOC. A group continues experimenting with MESH.
FRANKLIN: NONE
LICKING: We have started an active effort to equip at least four members plus EOC on HF digital frequencies and get an in-county digital net going. W5UHQ who has many years experience in digital communications and education is a retired electronics engineer has volunteered to mentor the group and get any with interest fixed up. He conducted the first phase of a three part training in December and will follow up with two sessions in January and February to both ARES and CERT who also want digital capability.
We also hope to have at least one ARES member each week checking into the Tuesday Ohio Digital Net in 2014. We have specified a new high profile UHF antenna for our Horns Hill repeater site on 444.500. The requisition has been turned into EMA who hopes to fund the new antenna. We have been operating for several months on a degraded UHF antenna system. We also have procured through a generous donation a new High Profile, High Power, 2 meter repeater and full wireless control system. This repeater will replace the current 146.88 machine which will be retired to become a hot backup.
DISTRICT 8..
EC comments Athens: Sunday Creek Amateur Radio Federation hamfest Sunday, January 19, 2014, 8 AM to noon, Tri-County Career Center, SR 691, Nelsonville, OH. VE session at noon, walk-ins welcome. Hocking: EC computer out of service. Report given to DEC by voice. DEC N8SUZ filing electronically for EC.
DISTRICT 9..
COSHOCTON COUNTY: I attended a Coshocton County Health Dept table top exercise. "Nothing spreads like fear-contagion". Also we moved the ARES communications van to have some of its radios updated. During the month we also held a net at mid day using the calling tree with a good turn-out for mid day. We are looking forward to this summer’s GOBA three day visit. AA8BN Steve Wheatcraft Coshocton Co. EC……..….
DISTRICT 8..
EC comments Athens: Sunday Creek Amateur Radio Federation hamfest Sunday, January 19, 2014, 8 AM to noon, Tri-County Career Center, SR 691, Nelsonville, OH. VE session at noon, walk-ins welcome. Hocking: EC computer out of service. Report given to DEC by voice. DEC N8SUZ filing electronically for EC.
DISTRICT 9..
COSHOCTON COUNTY: I attended a Coshocton County Health Dept table top exercise. "Nothing spreads like fear-contagion". Also we moved the ARES communications van to have some of its radios updated. During the month we also held a net at mid day using the calling tree with a good turn-out for mid day. We are looking forward to this summer’s GOBA three day visit. AA8BN Steve Wheatcraft Coshocton Co. EC……..….
MONROE COUNTY: We had our first public service event in December. A few club Members and I worked the Christmas Parade for Woodsfield. They told us that they were very pleased with our operations and they want us to do the Bicentennial parade this upcoming summer. Last month. we are in the process of buying a repeater for the County. I will be getting in contact with the repeater coordinator probably this week to get the ball rolling. KD8MTK Jeremey Taylor EC Monroe Co………….
MUSKINGUM COUNTY: No Comments this month. KB3RDR Kathern Frederico EC Muskingum Co…………
NOBLE COUNTY: No Comments this month. N8RAF Larry Mason! EC Noble Co………….
No ARES Report from Belmont, Guernsey, Morgan and Jefferson counties this month. W8FHF
DISTRICT 10..
DISTRICT 10..
Happy New Year to all, and stay warm!
Ashtabula County: Well the end of the year has come and gone. December was a good month for us. Though many members have flown south in lieu of warmer climes- most have still kept up contact through Echolink on our weekly nets. The rest of us have kept busy with other Ham project and trying to organize our ideas for the coming year's meetings and events. Our annual ARES/club meeting at the county EOC has been postponed by the EOC staff. Hopefully we'll receive the rescheduled date in a short while.
Cuyahoga County: The short time between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays precluded much in the way of meeting or drills. Despite this, we held our monthly member meeting, held a Net, and helped the City of Cleveland complete plans for the acquisition of equipment for their EOC in support of Amateur Radio (ARES) participation. Mostly, we spent time with our families in the celebration of the holidays.
Geauga County: Public Service Events down due to wi! nter.
Lake County: Six operators monitored a ARES road traffic net on 147.210 repeater during the multi car pileup on I90 east in Lake County. One operator was on the scene in the road shut down. The net was secured after 3 hours of operation.
Lorain County: No public service or emergency operations were conducted this month.
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