Ohio
SEC Notes & Stuff - Week 2 - 2014
For public distribution. Please forward as appropriate.
These notes will also be available on the ARES page at www.arrl-ohio.org
Ohio HF Emergency Preparedness Net. Tues at 7PM on 3850 kHz (+/-) and 7240 kHz LSB
For public distribution. Please forward as appropriate.
These notes will also be available on the ARES page at www.arrl-ohio.org
Ohio HF Emergency Preparedness Net. Tues at 7PM on 3850 kHz (+/-) and 7240 kHz LSB
Ohio Digital Emergency Net (OHDEN) Tues at 8PM. 3585 kHz and 7072 kHz
USB.
Ross T. Stillisano KB8JTZ Memorial Award Winner: David Rickon NF8O, of
Medina, OH
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2014! Greetings and salutations from the Northeast corner of the Buckeye State where it's a comfortable 43 degrees at the time of this writing! I am pleased to report that Old Man Winter and Mother Nature are out of counseling. The passion between them must be heating up as the ice and snow are melting and the forecasters are calling for even warmer temperatures ;-)
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2014! Greetings and salutations from the Northeast corner of the Buckeye State where it's a comfortable 43 degrees at the time of this writing! I am pleased to report that Old Man Winter and Mother Nature are out of counseling. The passion between them must be heating up as the ice and snow are melting and the forecasters are calling for even warmer temperatures ;-)
I am beginning my first Ohio
SEC Notes & Stuff of the new year by introducing my staff. I have
selected three Assistant Section Emergency Coordinators since I was appointed
in January 2012.
The Assistant Section
Emergency Coordinators are available for consultation and to answer your
questions. Feel free to email them at any time and they'll respond back
in a timely manner.
Scott
Phillips N8SX is the Assistant SEC appointed for Northern Ohio. He is
responsible for maintaining the Ohio Section Training Database and his
collateral duty is the development and implementation of Ohio's first ARESMAT
Team. His email address is n8sx@arrl.net.
Mark
Griggs KB8YMN is the Assistant SEC appointed for Central Ohio. He has
been assigned the collateral duty of recruiting. He is the primary source
of recruiting new volunteers into ARES as well as retaining them in the
program. His email is kb8ymn@arrl.net.
Gary Stephenson WW8O is the
Assistant SEC appointed for Southern Ohio. He has been assigned the
collateral duty of training. He is the primary source of training new
ARES volunteers and seasoned veterans alike. His email is ww8o@frontier.com.
Attention all ARES
volunteers...
Please contact your Emergency Coordinator and verify your contact information,
especially email address and telephone number. There will be times
throughout the year where you will be called upon. Wrong contact info
could lead to delays in staffing important assignments. I recommend
verifying your contact information on a quarterly basis or when anything
changes.
If you are not an ARES member, but would like to be, or at least thinking about it...
If you are not an ARES member, but would like to be, or at least thinking about it...
Please
contact your County Emergency Coordinator. They will get your started in
ARES and guide you in the right direction. You can find their contact
information by clicking on this LINK.
What
if I do not have an Emergency Coordinator in my county? Excellent
question. All 88 counties are grouped into 10 ARES districts. Every
district has an appointed District Emergency Coordinator. Their contact
information is also located at the link above.
Be sure to follow and
bookmark the Ohio Section ARES Blog. http://ohiosectionares.blogspot.com/
I post announcements, information about upcoming events, and other
miscellaneous items of importance on that blog.
Saturday, January 25th and
Sunday the 26th is Winter Field Day sponsored by the Society for the
Preservation of Amateur Radio (SPAR). The event starts at Noon on
Saturday and concludes at Noon on Sunday. It's very similar to Field Day
held in June but with the premise that emergencies and disasters don't always
happen in warm weather. In 2013, there were only 47 Winter Field Day logs
submitted to SPAR. I'd really like to see Ohio contribute to that.
So here's my challenge to you...I'd like to see as many stations from Ohio
participate in Winter Field Day. I can tell you several of us from the
Geauga Amateur Radio Association will be on the air that weekend and I hope to
hear you on the air. Check out their website http://www.spar-hams.org/contests/winterfd/index.php
for more details.
March
15th is the Ohio ARES Leadership Meeting at the State of Ohio Emergency
Operations Center in Columbus. The meeting starts at 10am and will
conclude at 3pm. All volunteers that hold an ARES appointment including
Official Emergency Stations and Assistant Emergency Coordinators are encouraged
to attend. We have quite the agenda to get through and your participation
is greatly appreciated. All counties and districts are expected to be
represented at this meeting.
Auxiliary
Communications (AUXCOM) course is coming to Hamvention again this year.
Many of us completed this course and let me tell you the instructors were
great. I highly recommend taking this course. Registration for the
2014 course opens February 1st. See details at www.hamvention.org.
Ladies
and gentlemen, that's all I have for this week. Thank you very much for
all you do for amateur radio.
73 de Matt W8DEC