ARRL Ohio Section - FSD-96
Month: December
Year: 2015
Total Number of ARES Members: 1670
Change since last month: 9
Number of DEC's / EC's reporting this month: 10
Number of ARES Nets active: varies
Number of Nets active with NTS Liaisons: 10
Call-signs of DEC's / EC's reporting: WD8PNZ W8UY KC8WHK WF8B AI8P KB8STK KA8RLC N8SUZ W8FHF N8AUC
Number of drills, tests and training sessions this month: 159
Person Hours: 1285.25
Number of Public Service Events this month: 31
Person Hours: 461.4
Number of Emergency Operations this month: 4
Person Hours: 56
Total number of ARES/RACES Events this month: 459
Total Person Hours: 3707.15
Comments: Good training this month all around. Many ARES units are getting more integrated into county CERT operations- a great marriage.
Submitted by and call-sign: Stan Broadway N8BHL
Email: broadways@standi.com
Name
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Call
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County
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District
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PS Hours
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EM Hours
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Hours Net Participation
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Marshall
|
N8PIB
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Marion
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7
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0
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0
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8.5
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Scott
|
N8SY
|
Richland
|
6
|
30
|
10
|
40
|
Mark
|
KB8YMN
|
Franklin
|
7
|
0
|
0
|
10
|
Bob
|
W8RWR
|
Franklin
|
7
|
0
|
0
|
1.5
|
Alan
|
N7CEU
|
Franklin
|
7
|
|||
John
|
K8PJ
|
Pickaway
|
7
|
|||
Matt
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KD8TTE
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Franklin
|
7
|
|||
Clair
|
W8KF
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Huron
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
5.38
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David
|
Rickon
|
Medina
|
10
|
25
|
0
|
1.5
|
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Hello all! Thank you so much for your time and energy during
2015! The December totals are in, and that gives us some firm numbers. We
average 1,700 members across the Ohio Section. Those members contributed over
55,500 hours in training, exercising, conducting nets and performing public
service. Of those hours, over 2,000 was directly involved in providing
emergency communications! This positions ARES as a viable emergency
resource in Ohio!
For the coming year, we have some goals to even better
position ARES!
1. ALL ARES MEMBERS will need to complete FEMA
100, 200, 700, 800 by the end of July, 2016. Without those certificates, you
will still be welcomed to participate in public service events, but only those
with certification will be eligible to perform during actual emergencies in
EOC’s and on scenes.
2. In
efforts to step up training, two programs will launch: first a “Train the
EC” program for EC’s, AEC’s, DEC’s and ADEC’s which will come to a
district near you! This daylong course will help direct the ARES leadership
team to provide a better environment for our members.
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Second, a district-wide open training day for
all members. This will be interesting and challenging- and will promote ARES
members to perform as even more valuable volunteers!
3. Our
NVIS antenna day will again test our ability to communicate
4. The
April Spring Conference (Date and place TBA) will bring even more good
information- we hope to follow our process of improving two meter and 440
communications with antenna examples and other information. We will give you
information on a wide variety of topics to take back to your group!
For all EC’s and DEC’s YOUR MONTHLY NUMBERS MATTER!!!
Please remember to file your reports so we can accurately account for ARES
involvement in the Ohio Section!
Here is a summary of comments from our December
reports! Again, thank you so much for everything you do!
December 2015 Monthly report
District 1
Northwest Ohio Traffic and
Training Net had for the Month of December, 330 check ins, handled 277 pieces of
traffic in 912 minutes in 31 sessions. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
District 2
Williams: Participated in the
NWOR hospital communications drill. Williams County ARES and Defiance County
will begin a joint FLDIGI training project in January and February. We have
been testing out JT65 messaging between Williams and Defiance Counties- Very
successful!
District 3
All nine District 3 counties
reporting. December reportedly very quiet in all counties. Total of 347 ARES
members; 39 Voice and 9 Digital County weekly nets and 5 District weekly nets
for 209 MH's. Total of 3 Tests/Drills/Training sessions for 114 MH\'s; 1 Public
Service Event Greene County supported annual 5K Beavercreek Resolution Run New
Years Eve) for 110 Hours; 2 Emergency Operations (Miami & Shelby
counties-Skywarn Net-Tornado Warning) for 32 MH\'s. Preble and Shelby counties
held Christmas parties/dinner/good fellowship.
District 4
Clinton County: E-ops hours
were a SkyWARN(!) activation. Butler County: Comments: BCAREC continues to assist
the Butler County SO 911 Center in their monthly weather siren testing. The
System Fusion build out also continues.
Hamilton County: Meetings
Month: AECs Meeting Health Dept. Admin Meeting - Working with ARES again.
Anderson Twp. Meeting - Prospective served agency -Group on StandBy Status for
poss WX events. Notified served agencies of our availability. Storms &
river flooding (missed us!) -Created a Yahoo! Group for information sharing
-Started prep for VHF Simplex Contest. from the DEC:
We have a candidate for the
Adams County EC position -- hopefully, next month, you\'ll hear from him
directly. Also, the National Weather Service annual Advanced Spotter Training
rotates between Districts 3, 4, and 7...it is District 4\'s turn this year and
SkyWARN team is working out the details. Ramping up for public service event
season, and GOBA is coming to our district this year -- so, as always, much to
do supporting marathons, charity tours, triathlons, and more!
District 5
Stark County ARES completed 5
public service nets that totaled 190 check-ins. There were no public service
events during the month. Members were again requested to complete an updated
ARES registration form to maintain current contact information and to update
any additional training completed. There was some discussion of 2016 meetings
to provide some formal training.
4 Public Service events were
supported by Mahoning ARES in December. These included Youngstown Christmas
Parade and Tree lighting on Dec 4th, communications for 2 Red Cross events and
Youngstown New Year’s Eve celebration-events on Dec 31st
District 6
No comments
District 7
The Delaware ARES meeting
featured Delaware County Deputy Sheriff Tim Schambs, the department liaison to
the Fusion Center, who detailed the terrorism threat with a local view and what
we as Hams and ARES members must be aware of and do if a threat is perceived.
This was one of the most interesting training sessions of the year and peaked
our attention to the level of concern we must all have.
Licking County had a quite
December! Hope everyone had a safe and happy Holiday Season. Work on the CERT /
ARES trailer continues and is almost completed. A local ham operator donated a
40’ tower to the Licking Co. Red Cross and we will be working get it erected
and their donated radio equipment installed soon. 2016 looks to be a busy year!
District 8
Counties reporting: Athens,
Hocking, Lawrence, Pike, Ross, Scioto EC comments:
Athens: Nelsonville SCARF
Hamfest on Sunday, January 17, 8 AM to noon. VE session at 10 AM Pike:
Conducted second simplex test session, results were significantly better than
first test session. Dedicated simplex antenna will be installed at test
location in near future. DEC comments: Athens County ARA will be starting Tech
license classes on Monday, January 11, 7 PM at Red Cross of Southeastern Ohio
in Athens.
District 9
COSHOCTON CO: Continued check ins into OSSBN, OHDEN, Ohio
Voice Nets by our ARES. Also using local ARES net to practice passing traffic
on radiograms, and coming 213 forms. AA8BN, EC.....Only two counties reporting
this month. Sonny DEC-9.
District 10
District 10: Best wishes to all
for a safe, happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!
*** Ashtabula County: 2015 was
good... but 2016 will be even better! Happy New Year!!!
*** Cuyahoga County: New EC
KC8NZJ appointed, new AEC KB8TGT appointed 11 members removed for inactivity, 6
new members added. Participated in ESF review with county Scheduled meetings
with served agencies to meet new EC and review 2016 plans. ARES notified of EOC
activation due to protests in downtown Cleveland
*** Geauga County: Not much to
report for December. Been working on getting some other events in the County.
If you would like to help with the Ohio Winter Rally on February 6 put on but
the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) please send email to info@geaugacountyares.org.
*** Lake County: On December
19th, three LCARA / ARES, members assisted in a workshop at the Lake County
E.O.C. The subject of the workshop was in Emergency Management: Amateur Radio
Resources, GO 251. The workshop was conducted by Pete Greene (N8WGE) for N.E.
Ohio Public Service Managers and employees. LCARA / ARES members assisting were
Ed Kopcak (KB8BKE), Larry Caskey (K8LPC), and Mike Goffos (WB8ZGH). Larry
(K8LPC) demonstrated the operations of the E.O.C. Amateur radio room. He took
the opportunity to pass 10 pieces of radio traffic to the NTS over the HF rig
at the E.O.C. This was a good test exercise of the equipment. Ed (KB8BKE) and
Mike (WB8ZGH) conducted a tour of the ARES radio communication trailer housed
in the E.O.C. garage. The group was very interested in its operations, judging
by the many questions that we answered.
*** Lorain County: No Comments.
***Medina County: 6 1/2 hour
CERT drill under EMA direction. Voice and digital forms sent from field,
trailer and command bus to the EOC. Forms were completed by CERT teams in the
field doing structure evaluations and ARES did the digital and voice
communications. CERT teams had poor radios and had to rely on ARES
communicators..
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