March 2017 Section Emergency Coordinators Report..

ARRL Ohio Section - FSD-96
Month: March
Year: 2017
Total Number of ARES Members: 1759
Change since last month: 18
Number of DEC's / EC's reporting this month: 9
Number of ARES Nets active: 723
Number of Nets active with NTS Liaisons: Varies
Call-signs of DEC's / EC's reporting: WD8PNZ W8UY KC8WHK WF8B AI8P KB8STK N8KKW N8SUZ W8FHF N8AUC
Number of drills, tests and training sessions this month: 153
Person Hours: 1956
Number of Public Service Events this month: 91
Person Hours: 1065
Number of Emergency Operations this month: 20
Person Hours: 204
Total number of ARES/RACES Events this month: 987
Total Person Hours: 5521
Comments: Early start this year on Skywarn, several tornadoes and severe weather events already for Ohio. Great Ohio ARES Conference this month, 110 attended.
Submitted by and call-sign: Stan broadway N8BHL
Email: broadways@standi.com

March Official Emergency Station Reports

Name	Call	County	District	PS Hours	EM Hours	Hours Net Participation
Scott	N8SY	Richland	6	25	10	30
Mark	KB8YMN	Franklin	7	5	0	10
Bob	W8RWR	Franklin	7	3.3	0	5
David	NF8O	Medina	10	28.75	0	15
Matt	KD8TTE	Franklin	7	65	1	30
Jeff	KB8ZUN	Lorain	10	5	0	22

Ohio ARES Monthly Activity Report

March 2017

District 1

 The Northwest Ohio ARES traffic net for March had 206 check ins and handled 90 pieces of traffic in 405 minutes in 31 sessions. I attended the Davis-Besse dry run drill at the Ottawa County EOC in Port Clinton. I also attended an EMA Sector Meeting in Seneca County on the 17th. I also attended a Unified Command meeting at the Toledo Express Airport on the 16th. Total Hours include figures from the Northwest Ohio Traffic and Training Net.

District 2

 Activated Weather net on two severe storms that passed through area.

District 3

DISTRICT 3 SUMMARY:  100% of Nine Counties reporting:  289 Members (3 New), 119 Total Events (57 Voice Net Sessions, 12 Digital Net Sessions, 45 Meetings/ Drills/Tests/Training, 1 Public Service Events, 4 Emergency Operations), for 875 Total Man-Hours.

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY:  4 weekly voice net sessions, 1 ARES meeting for a total of 5 events and 54 man-hours.

CLARK COUNTY:  3 weekly net sessions plus Ohio Statewide Tornado Drill Net (16 check-ins) and 2 other events for a total of 6 events and 35 man-hours. 

DARKE COUNTY:  4 weekly voice net sessions and 1 other ARES event for a total of 5 events and 18 man-hours.

GREENE COUNTY:  4  GCARES weekly voice nets, 4 GCARES weekly digital nets, 4 GCARES weekly Mesh Discussion nets, 4 Bellbrook support group voice nets and 4 Fairborn support group voice nets plus Ohio Statewide Tornado Drill, Packet Beacon installed and activated in preparation for Winlink Gateway and 11 other ARES related events for a total of 33 events and 210 man-hours.

LOGAN COUNTY (RACES UNIT):  4 weekly voice net sessions and 1 training session for a total of 5 events and 12 man-hours.

MIAMI COUNTY:  9 weekly voice net sessions, 4 weekly digital net sessions and 16 other ARES/RACES events for a total of 29 events and 84 man-hours.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY:  4 weekly voice nets, 4 weekly digital nets plus 1 ARES meeting, Ohio Statewide Tornado Drill and Skywarn Training Class for a total of 11 events and 214 man-hours.

PREBLE COUNTY:  4 weekly voice net sessions, 1 ARES event and 2 Skywarn emergency operations for a total of 7 events and 12 man-hours.

SHELBY COUNTY:  5 weekly net sessions, 5 ARES events, 1 public service event and 2 Skywarn emergency operations for a total of 13 events and 143 man-hours.
DISTRICT 3 ACTIVITIES:  4 District 3 ARES weekly voice net sessions and 1 District 3 EC meeting for a total of 5 events and 93 man-hours.

District 4

E-ops time was SkyWARN support in Cincinnati and Wilmington. (And the count is already rolling up for April.) Hamilton County ops are putting in time to prepare for an LEPC-driven MCI drill in May. Public Service event season is here, and we expect to report large numbers over the next few months. 

District 5

Ken Dorsey, KA8OAD, for Summit County: This month, in place of our regular meeting, I asked that all members attend the Skywarn training session presented by the Summit County EMA on the same week as or normal meeting.

Don Kemp, NN8B, for Columbiana County: Members attended SKYWARN training in Lisbon, OH.

Terry Russ, N8ATZ, for Stark County: Stark County ARES completed 4 public service training nets for the month of March that totaled 132 check-ins. There were no public service events during the month. In conjunction with Severe Weather Awareness Week together with our county EMA office sponsored our annual Severe Storms Spotter training held at Jackson High School. This years training saw over 100 in attendance with most new spotters. 

District 6

Crawford county Very busy first month (partial) starting with SkyWarn training. Making contacts with local officials and reacquainting with old friends who have moved into new positions. My first full scale HazMat exercise, seven FEMA courses, meetings with members of two potential clubs in the county, Contacted sponsors of future scheduled events to see if we can help, had a brief conference with Tim Flock the EMA coordinator for the county published numerous photos of exercise on my web site for use by agencies and members. Photo Links currently available: http:/www./mikeyned.com/ema/ http://www.mikeyned.com/ares2017/ Not bed for a running start.

Richland County ARES had 2 skywarn nets 1 skywarn training,EMA siren testing assist for possible sirens not working Richland ARES had a tabletop drill with EMA Some areas learned that we can assist with communications during a emergency event.

District 7

DELAWARE: DELARES was called into an exercise at the EMA to provide comms for the Red Cross in a simulated emergency. All activity was within the EOC. We had received an earlier notice that something was being planned but heard no more. Then, as the event email was coming in the EC got a call to come in and help. As I was getting ready to go it occurred to me this is how it works in a real emergency. No time to plan and prepare, just go and do your job. It was a good wake up call and revealed a weakness in our ability to notify other ARES members of a need for action. Email is too slow (the above message took a day to arrive) phones may not be reliable and few people monitor the repeaters during the day. Something to work on in case its a real emergency.

KNOX: Four nets with a total of 56 check-ins Knox County ARES Leadership Team is applying ICS to Field Day Frank Counts and Pat Valentino promoted amateur radio at the Knox Count Exchange Club. Franks Counts and Pat Valentino participated in a round table discussion with county 9-1-1 Supervisor on integrating amateur radio with 9-1-1 in times of emergency.

LICKING: Licking County Had a busy month, several of us helped Franklin Co. at the Arnold Expo, 3 members are going through the 8 week CERT class which will be wrapping up in April. EOC remodel is moving along, hoping to have it completed and operational soon. We activated the weather net for the statewide tornado drill and had 16 members check-in and gave reports on alerts and sirens. 2 Severe weather nets were activated and we had a total of 38 check-ins. April is going to be a busy month as well. Looking forward to the ARES conference.

MARION: We had a fairly busy end to the month of March 2017. In addition to our normal activities we had several members attend a training session for the county Emergency Operations Center, in preparation for a functional exercise hosted by the county EMA. We did participate in the exercise along with several agencies from Marion, Morrow and Delaware counties. This allowed us to practice and workout any difficulties of setting up and conducting traffic via FLDIGI at remote locations such as a shelter the hospital and the emergency operating center. It went well and we identified a few areas that we can improve upon.

UNION: We have a weekly net on the N8IG repeater. If there is enough interest for a simplex net, we have one after the net on the repeater. This month we had a 2 meter simplex net that also included the use an echolink simplex node.

District 8

Counties reporting: Athens, Hocking, Lawrence, Ross, Scioto

Athens: Put on standby for Red Cross during areal flooding event. Athens Marathon Sunday, April 9, 8 AM to 3 PM. Athens County ARA Hamfest Sunday, April 30, 8 AM to noon, Athens Community Center Hocking: Phil Stanley, KB8NZB has taken a leave from ARES and is no longer one of my assistant EC's. Phil is fine, just wanted to take a break for a bit. He has been replaced by Jackie Gene Smith, N8BUS who is now one of my three Assistant EC's.

Ross: Held 2017 Kickoff meeting this month. This was attended by the new Ross County EMA director. There is a simulated county disaster coming on 17 June. The Southern Ohio Forest Rally was represented and gave an excellent presentation about the rally and their amateur radio needs.

Scioto: NWS Spotter Training March 6th - 2 hr class with 30 people attending

District 9

Coshocton:  An LEPC meeting attended and a monthly ARES meeting having each to all maintain needed reference material for ARES and SKYWARN. Snow reports were given to NWS Pittsburgh by several and on April 22 we had 15 members participating in the Statewide tornado drill in conjunction with the EMA. KL7RF, KC8WX, N8MXX, KC8PUW continue to represent Coshocton Co. on W8SGT and OHDEN nets. AA8BN Coshocton County EC

Guernsey: Monthly ARES training covered HAZ MAT, NIMS course, PIO, personal safety in a disaster. An unscheduled tornado warning drill was initiated by the EMA "RAVE" notification system. There were six check ins to the net. The EC attended the county Loong term recovery meeting. 

No report: Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Tuscarawas, Washington

District 10

 District 10: NVIS day will be Saturday, April 22, 2017! Big fun coming, don't miss out! Skywarn training is in progress across the section. Make sure to attend your local Skywarn training session! Ashtabula County: No comments submitted.

Cuyahoga County: Preparations continue for upcoming public service event season.

Geauga County: Looking forward to a few public service events in April. 10/20 Mile Drop and NVIS day. Still looking for help on 10/20 mile drop.

Lake County: 7 ARES members attended Skywarn Training at Lake Land CC in Mentor

Lorain County: No Comments.

Medina County: No comments submitted