July's Section Emergency Coordinators Report

ARRL Ohio Section - FSD-96
Month: July
Year: 2018
Total Number of ARES Members: 1709
Change since last month: 59
Number of DEC's / EC's reporting this month: 8
Number of ARES Nets active: 543
Number of Nets active with NTS Liaisons: all
Call-signs of DEC's / EC's reporting: all
Number of drills, tests and training sessions this month: 687
Person Hours: 3105
Number of Public Service Events this month: 91
Person Hours: 3029
Number of Emergency Operations this month: 17
Person Hours: 182
Total number of ARES/RACES Events this month: 795
Total Person Hours: 6316
Comments:
Submitted by and call-sign: Stan Broadway N8BHL
Email: stan@standi.com
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ARES monthly activity report for July, 2018

District 1

Totals include figures from the Northwest Ohio Traffic and Training Net and District 1 Skywarn. For the month of July the Northwest Ohio Traffic and Training Net had 232 check ins, took 127 pieces of traffic in 408 minutes in 31 sessions. Work continues in cooperation with the Hospital Council Of Northwest Ohio and the amateur radio installation project. A few of the medical facilities have finished the installation process and we have visited those facilities and tested the antenna and radio for operational status. We will continue working this project as requests for equipment keep coming in.

District 2

1.) Van Wert ARC assisted Van Wert Historical Society Bike Tour with communications. 2.) K8VON Repeater 147.090 has been moved to a new location and is undergoing testing. 

District 3

DISTRICT 3 SUMMARY:  100% of Nine Counties reporting: 300 Members (+2 change); (67 Voice Net Sessions, 23 Digital Net Sessions (90 total Net Events & 431 Net man-hours); 19 Meetings-Drills-Training-Tests (111 man-hours); 4 Public Service Events (149 man-hrs) and 3 Emergency Operations (35 man-hrs); for 116 Total Events and 725 Total man-hours.

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY:  (22 members, 0 change):  4 weekly voice net sessions (40 Net man-hours); 0 Public Service Event (0 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours) and 0 other ARES events (0 man-hours) for a total of 4 events and 40 man-hours.

CLARK COUNTY:  (33 members):  5 weekly net sessions (25 Net man-hours); 0 Public Service Event (0 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours) and 2 other ARES events (6 man-hours) for a total of 7 events and 31 man-hours.

DARKE COUNTY:  (14 members, 0 change):  5 weekly voice net sessions (9 Net man-hours); 1 Public Service Event (75 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours) and 1 other ARES event (11 man-hours ) for a total of 7 events and 95 man-hours.

GREENE COUNTY:  (57 members, +2 change):  20 weekly voice net sessions, 10 weekly digital net sessions (190 Net man-hours); 0 Public Service Events (0 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 5 other ARES related activities (43 man-hours) for a total of 35events and 233 man-hours.

     Comments:  Weekly Net participation: GCARES, GCARES/MVMA Mesh Discussion, BARC, UVARC, GCARES Digital, Dayton East Emergency Response Net (DEER), OHDEN,& OH Emergency Preparedness Net, D3. Other activity: Continuing Mesh and Winlink maintenance, demonstrations, testing & training, served agency training, served agency meetings. 

LOGAN COUNTY (RACES UNIT):  (10 members):  4 weekly voice net sessions (2 man-hours); and 0 other RACES activity (0 man-hours) for a total of 4 events and 2 man-hours.

     Comments:  We took July off.

MIAMI COUNTY:  (25 members):  13 weekly voice nets, 5 weekly digital nets (65 Net man-hours); 0 Public Service (0 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 1 other ARES events (12 man-hours) for a total of 19 events and 77 man-hours.

     Comments:  MCES ARES/RACES Net 145.23(-) held each Sunday evening at 2100hrs, 147.21 (+) held each Thursday at 2000hrs, Digital nets using MT63-2KL on 145.23 held each Sunday at 1900hrs & Wires X net on Sunday at 1800hrs. The club conducted a Tech in a Day class with 6 attempts resulting in 4 new tech lic and one upgrade. The club also held a bunny hunt with 11 operators taking part in finding a hidden transmitter. 

MONTGOMERY COUNTY:  (86 members, 0 change):  4 weekly voice net sessions, 4 weekly digital net sessions (21 Net man-hours); 0 Public Service Events (0 man-hours); 1 Emergency Operations (33 man-hours); and 2 other ARES related events (16 man-hours) for a total of 11 events and 69 man-hours. 

     Comments:  Dayton Skywarn was activated on July 20th for Tornado Watch #290. On July 18th, MoCo ARES attended the quarterly meeting of the Montgomery County COAD.

PREBLE COUNTY:  (14 members):  4 weekly net sessions (2 Net man-hours); 1 Public Service Event (10 man-hours); 2 Emergency Operations (2 man-hours); and 4 other ARES events (8 man-hours) for a total of 1 events and 22 man-hours.

     Comments:  Preble responded to a call from Darke County for operators for the annual Annie Oakley parade. Manned barricades for local LEO. Two Skywarn nets conducted for potential destructive weather. No responders were called..
 

SHELBY COUNTY:  (39 members):  5 weekly net sessions; 4 digital net sessions (58 man-hours); 2 Public Service Event (64 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 4 other ARES events (16 man-hours); for a total of 15 events and 22 man-hours.

     Comments:  5 Sunday SCARES voice nets & 4 C4FM check-ins July 4 - Sidney, Ohio Fireworks 12 x 3 = 36 July 21 - Sidney YMCA 4 Mile Run 7 x 4 = 28 July 22 - VEC Testing 3 x 2 = 6 July 24 - SCARES Meeting / Training 5 x 2 = 10.

DISTRICT 3 ACTIVITIES:  3 District 3 ARES weekly voice net sessions (19 Net man-hours); and 0 other District 3 activities (0 Net man-hours); for a total of 3 events and 19 man-hours.

     Comments:  District 3 ARES registered for ARES-CONNECT.

  

District 4

Brown: 5 weekly A.R.E.S/R.A.C.E.S NETS

Butler: Summer meetings at Butler Tech have been suspended due to on going construction in the building. AIRMAIL server recently updated to new computer and Windows 10 re-establishing the user database 145.0100 N8TVU-10.

Clinton:  called out by served agency - NWS 12.5 hr.

Hamilton SkyWARN, Cin Music Fest, Pride Parade, CF Bike Ride, Paddlefest planning.

Highland: ran 74 messages on the mars nets yes highland county is still here making noise 

District 5

Stark County - Terry Russ, N8ATZ Stark County ARES completed 5 public service nets for the month of July that totaled 105 check-ins. We provided support communications for the Hall of Fame Community Parade on July 22nd with eleven volunteers participating. Packet Radio was again used to relay parade lineup details to the TV production truck. We continue to encourage our team members to register their training efforts in the new Ohio ARES Connect database.

Summit County - Ken Dorsey KA8OAD This month we helped with the Stow July 4th Parade. We assisted the parade officials keeping track of the parade lineup and along the route keeping the units in the parade moving at a reasonable pace.

District 6

Ashland: No comment

Crawford: No comment

Richland: No comment

Morrow: No comment

Wayne: No comment

District 7

MARION COUNTY: We provided our services to the Marion County Fair this year by monitoring the fair grandstands for each main event ensuring the safety, comfort and easy access of fair goers and participants. We also were a visible link between the public to law enforcement and medical services. Ironman 2018 was another success. We were able to assist Delaware County by covering the bicycle race through about 50 miles of Marion and Morrow Counties. We provided vital information about the riders and support staff to Delaware ARES which they relayed to race officials. Delaware ARES provided us will the information we needed to make this such a success.

UNION COUNTY: July 7th was the Central Ohio Challenge, a bike ride spanned from Dublin to Bellefontaine and back to make up the longest 100 mile loop. Bike riders started in Dublin at 7am and the last one made it back to Dublin around 5:30pm. The help for it was greatly appreciated. We had a total of 18 amateur radio operators help out with communications for the event from Franklin, Delaware, Union, and Licking counties, covering all 7 rest stop locations, the start/finish point in Dublin, and 3 mobile operators out on the bike course. We used the N8IG 2 meter repeater and the W8FTV 2 meter repeater in Bellefontaine to cover the course. I was also able to help operate the special event station for the Steam Threshers Show in Plain City. We got the antenna strung up in the trees at Pastime Park Friday evening and got everything ready for operating on Saturday July 14th. That was a lot of fun and also a good experience especially when after calling CQ getting a few stations responding at the same time with their call signs. It was also challenging hearing the radio when the tractors would drive by. We ended up making 100 contacts, the farthest one away was in Italy operating on 40 meters. Joe, K8JWL and myself helped out with the Trifit Challenge in Columbus on the 21st. That event went well. The intersection I was at had an Upper Arlington Police officer there to stop traffic while the bike riders went through it. The new location for EMA station 720 is still progressing. The tile and carpet were installed over this past week. The details are still being worked out for the new tower which is expected to be setup tentatively in October. I have been trying to get everyone to sign up on ARES Connect. I have been having a very limited success doing that. I would like to hear how everyone's experience has been getting ARES members signed up for it and using it to track everyone's time for all the training nets and other events I see listed on there. 73, -Ed, KE8ANU

DELAWARE COUNTY: Ironman ,as always, was a huge event and another success for DELARES since they will be coming back next year. One member of DELARES put in over 40 hours of planning, pre-event meetings, organizing and recruiting. Marion County was a huge asset and had 13 volunteers. we couldn\'t have done this without them. LICKING COUNTY: Licking County, Had a busy month, August and September is gearing up to be a busy months with planning for several exercises. Plans are also being made for CPR and AED training through one of the local Fire Departments. New EOC planning continues with some major changes and looking at moving the radio set up at the local hospital. Our thoughts and prayers go out to 2 members and their families for the loss of their XYL's.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY: Successful: 4th of July Parade Tour De Cause Lancaster Fest event 1 Lancaster Fest event 2 Lancaster Fest event 3 Testing Training.

FAYETTE COUNTY: assisted in security for July 3rd Fire in the Sky fireworks Display in Washington Court House.

FRANKLIN COUNTY: This month the FCEM&HS office presented the risks that Franklin County faces and how ARES fits into responding to water shortages, power outages, flooding, hazmat, earthquakes, cyber threats and more. We had a good turnout and learn quite a bit. We covered a July 4th parade and the annual OSU Ross Hospital Tri-Fit. In August the FBI has been invited to speak to us about hazards they deal with and things we may see when we provide communication at public service events. 

District 8

Counties reporting: Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Lawrence, Pike, Ross, Scioto EC comments:

Athens: ACARA plans to activate Blackwood covered bridge for Ohio Covered Bridge event on August 18 using call N8SUZ.

Scioto: New Weather Station at Tower Site on highest hill in county operational now

DEC comments: Several district clubs plan to activate parks for Ohio State Parks on the Air on September 8.

District 9

COSHOCTON CO: ARES at the lepc mtg .... Coshocton County Amateur radio Association with ARES skywarn display at the Coshocton public library for the month....... Ares and Coshocton Co amateur radio assoc with a working display at the West Lafayette homecoming. Passed some Radiogram with fldigi , had hf, UHF vhf radios. ..... AA8BN EC

District 10

Public Service Event season is in full swing, and July was a busy month!

Ashtabula County: No comments submitted.

Cuyahoga County: Our events for this month were the Pan Ohio Hope Ride and the Cleveland Triathalon.

Geauga County: No comments submitted.

Lake County: On July 4th we helped assemble and provide communications for the Fairport Harbor Mardi Gras Parade. This is a tough day to get volunteers to come out, with everyone having family events on the holiday. We did manage to get five operator to come out and got the job done. The next event was the Civil War Encampment at the James A. Garfield Home. We set up a Telegraph Demo just outside the telegraph office on the grounds. We use the Civil War telegraph sounders and keys. Those that stopped by were impressed.

Lorain County: No comments submitted.

Medina County: Twin Sizzler bike race on July four went off better than expected with no accidents and finishing just about on time. Usually we have stragglers that extend things about an hour.