ARRL Ohio Section - FSD-96
Month: September
Year: 2018
Total Number of ARES Members: 1579
Change since last month: 22
Number of DEC's / EC's reporting this month: 9
Number of ARES Nets active: 513
Number of Nets active with NTS Liaisons: varies
Call-signs of DEC's / EC's reporting: .
Number of drills, tests and training sessions this month: 677
Person Hours: 4845
Number of Public Service Events this month: 112
Person Hours: 3778
Number of Emergency Operations this month: 13
Person Hours: 256
Total number of ARES/RACES Events this month: 802
Total Person Hours: 8876
Comments: Mahoning County was activated for damage assessment after severe weather. Several counties were involved in major exercises, including the Perry Nuclear Power Plant exercise over several northeast counties.
Submitted by and call-sign: Stan Broadway N8BHL
Email: stan@standi.com
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Month: September
Year: 2018
Total Number of ARES Members: 1579
Change since last month: 22
Number of DEC's / EC's reporting this month: 9
Number of ARES Nets active: 513
Number of Nets active with NTS Liaisons: varies
Call-signs of DEC's / EC's reporting: .
Number of drills, tests and training sessions this month: 677
Person Hours: 4845
Number of Public Service Events this month: 112
Person Hours: 3778
Number of Emergency Operations this month: 13
Person Hours: 256
Total number of ARES/RACES Events this month: 802
Total Person Hours: 8876
Comments: Mahoning County was activated for damage assessment after severe weather. Several counties were involved in major exercises, including the Perry Nuclear Power Plant exercise over several northeast counties.
Submitted by and call-sign: Stan Broadway N8BHL
Email: stan@standi.com
Files to upload?:
Monthly Activity Report September, 2018
District 1
Totals include Northwest Ohio Traffic and Training Net and District 1 Skywarn. The District 1 Northwest Ohio Traffic and Training Net for the month of September had 229 checkins, passed 129 pieces of traffic in 422 minutes in 30 sessions. This net meets 365 days a year on the 147.375 repeater in Oregon, OH. at 6:30pm. The repeater has a pl of 103.5. The District 1 NORC-2 Hospital team paid a visit to the Elizabeth Scott Community Center in Lucas County, to deliver radio equipment and perform a site survey in cooperation with the Hospital Council Of Northwest Ohio.
District 2
DCARES participated in the local Tribute to Towers 5k run by providing Em-comm at 10 checkpoints along the route. DCARES had a mutual asset with Williams Co. ARES for an interoperability drill at the Williams Co. fairgrounds. Learned a lot and found some things that we could improve on.
District 3
DISTRICT 3 SUMMARY: 100% of Nine Counties reporting: 306 Members (+2 change); (63 Voice Net Sessions, 18 Digital Net Sessions (81 total Net Events & 420 Net man-hours); 27 Meetings-Drills-Training-Tests (353 man-hours); 7 Public Service Events (804 man-hrs) and 1 Emergency Operations (1 man-hrs); for 116 Total Events and 1578 Total man-hours.
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: (23 members, +1 change): 4 weekly voice net sessions (40 Net man-hours); 0 Public Service Event (0 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours) and 1 other ARES events (9 man-hours) for a total of 5 events and 49 man-hours.
CLARK COUNTY: (37 members): 3 weekly net sessions (10 Net man-hours); 0 Public Service Event (0 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours) and 2 other ARES events (10 man-hours) for a total of 5 events and 20 man-hours.
DARKE COUNTY: (14 members, 0 change): 4 weekly voice net sessions (8 Net man-hours); 1 Public Service Event (55 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours) and 1 other ARES event (6 man-hours ) for a total of 6 events and 69 man-hours.
GREENE COUNTY: (57 members, 0 change): 17 weekly voice net sessions, 8 weekly digital net sessions (176 Net man-hours); 2 Public Service Events (440 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 14 other ARES related activities (156 man-hours) for a total of 41events and 771 man-hours.
Comments: Weekly Net participation: GCARES, GCARES/MVMA Mesh Discussion, BARC, UVARC, GCARES Digital, Dayton East Emergency Response Net (DEER), OHDEN,& OH EM. PREP, D3. Other activity: Continuing Mesh and Winlink maintenance, demonstrations, testing & training, served agency training, served agency meetings, missing person search, new Greene County Public Health building tour. Three more GCARES members configured, trained and operational on Winlink.
LOGAN COUNTY (RACES UNIT): (10 members): 4 weekly voice net sessions (2 man-hours); and 1 other RACES activity (4 man-hours) for a total of 5 events and 6 man-hours.
Comments:
MIAMI COUNTY: (26 members; +1): 14 weekly voice nets, 5 weekly digital nets (70 Net man-hours); 1 Public Service (67 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 0 other ARES events (0 man-hours) for a total of 20 events and 137 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. Held another Tech in a Day class with 19 students, 10 of those students walked away with a new FCC Technician license. COVERED BRIDGES ON THE AIR Event - We had a great time out at the Covered Bridges on the Air event, running two radios running – the ICOM 7300 that Icom America loaned to us, and Rich (KC8YTV) brought out his radio, as well. A total of 88 contacts were made across North America. The Club also supported the Tour de Donut Bike ride thru Miami County with 25 operators watching over 2700 bike riders..
MONTGOMERY COUNTY: (86 members, 0 change): 3 weekly voice net sessions, 3 weekly digital net sessions (21 Net man-hours); 1 Public Service Events (85 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 3 other ARES related events (31 man-hours) for a total of 10 events and 117 man-hours.
Comments: WinLink, An Introduction was our program topic at our MoCo ARES Meeting. This will be another tool in our EmComm tool box. Preparations are underway for the upcoming SET in October.
PREBLE COUNTY: (14 members): 5 weekly net sessions (5 Net man-hours); 2 Public Service Event (178 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 2 other ARES events (10 man-hours) for a total of 9 events and 193 man-hours.
Comments: Skywarn activated for storm reporting. No damage to report. Preble participated in the OHIO QSO PARTY in the EOC category. New members were trained in HF operation, new antennas were tried and found to greatly reduce interference between stations. Training was conducted on proper installation of coax and connectors and testing. Portable 70' tower was deployed and new modifications were tested. Overall the event was very successful and all had fun. WE expect to take first place this year in the EOC category.
SHELBY COUNTY: (39 members): 5 weekly net sessions; 2 digital net sessions (44 man-hours); 0 Public Service Event (0 man-hours); 1 Emergency Operations (1 man-hours); and 2 other ARES events (48 man-hours); for a total of 10 events and 93 man-hours.
Comments: 8-3-2018 Shelby Co. Relay for Life; 8-4-2018 Shelby Co. Relay for Life; 8-26-2018 Monthly Meeting Labor Day weekend.
DISTRICT 3 ACTIVITIES: 4 District 3 ARES weekly voice net sessions (44 Net man-hours); and 1 other District 3 activities (79 man-hours); for a total of 5 events and 123 man-hours.
Comments:
District 4
Butler County continues to "adopt" sirens and report performance (or not) back to county emergency management. Warren County is preparing for a "startup" meeting in October. There were no SkyWARN hours in the district this month, continuing a trend of the least busy season that most of us remember!
District 5
Mahoning County, David Brett, KD8NZF See attached document Stark County, Terry Russ, N8ATZ Stark Co ARES completed 4 public service nets for the month of September that totaled 109 check-ins. There were no public service events during the month. We did host a District 5 ARES meeting on Sept 1st at our County EMA Office to provide training on the new ARES Connect System.
District 6
Nothing submitted
District 7
Fairfield County Comments: CPR/AED training, State Parks on the Air, Testing, ARES Nets, ARIS project, Red Cross Equipment/Tower, antenna relocation project.
Knox County Comments: We have a training exercise with the Knox County EMA on 9/29/18
Licking County comments:, Had a busy month. Thanks to those who are working hard to get the Red Cross radio install completed, they should be finalizing the install early next month. The Search and Rescue exercise was canceled due to the wet ground conditions from the rain that has fallen and forecast for the day. A couple of our members attended the G775 class that was given in Newark at Newark PD, Thanks NPD for your hospitality. A CPR/AED class was set-up, Had a great turn out for the class and a special thanks to West Licking Fire District and West Licking Fire Marshall Fred Hughes for their hospitality and instructing the class, due to scheduling conflicts for some that wanted to attend, there will be another class scheduled after the first of the year. Looking forward to the rest of the year, with things starting to slow down a bit, it will be a good time to catch up on some on-line courses. EC: Bret Stemen KD8SCL
Franklin County Comments: Work has been underway to improve the antenna system at the FCEM&HS office since roof repairs were completed a few months ago. We had training on the Franklin County Siren Watch program where volunteers monitor the weekly operation of tornado sirens. As a result additional volunteers were recruited into the program. There are nearly 200 sirens in Franklin County with residents and FCOHARES monitoring sirens so that malfunctioning sirens can be repaired within a day. We also learned about the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Kitchens out of North Carolina with a video presentation. 30,000 meals a day can be prepared and served daily while also caring for the workers with hot showers. It is truly amazing to watch the transformation of a 40 foot semi-trailer into a giant food truck. These units are being deployed throughout the Florence flooded areas and serve the Red Cross, Salvation Army and Emergency Management.
Union County Comments: The new location for EMA station 720 is still slowly progressing. The County met with someone from the tower company after getting the ducks in a row from the township and county to put up a new tower. A soil sample has been taken where the tower location is going to be. That will help the tower manufacturer determine the design of the tower base and tower. The expectation is that the tower will be up in 3 to 4 months. The County EMA put on WEBEOC training this month. That was pretty interesting. We then made a visit to the hope center. The hope center is the volunteer management center and donation drop off location for an event. It was good to talk with the people from the Hope Center and to know where things would generally be setup in the building, especially if they would need comunication assistance from our ARES group. I am still working on convincing everyone to get signed up with ARES connect. October is a busy month, the SET is the first weekend, JOTA is the 3rd weekend in October. Some of the ARES members and club members are going to be at Camp Lazarus in Delaware for JOTA. Keep an ear out JOTA weekend for scouts on the air. Nothing else to report from Union County. 73, -Edmund Liddle, KE8ANU
District 8
Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Lawrence, Pike, Ross, Scioto EC comments:
Gallia: no comments as of right now. I am sorry this is last. Due to issues in my life as of right now.
Lawrence: Lawrence County ARES set up HF and VHF radios to do demonstrations of emergency communications for the Aid VFD Community Fun Day. We also hosted with the Lawrence County EMA a class in Damage Assessment for Individual Assistance. Both events were a big success.
DEC comments: Athens/SCARF public service events coming up: Buckeye Trail Marathon, Saturday, October 6, Shawnee, 0830, Komen Athens Race for the Cure, Sunday, October 14, noon, Bobcat Trail Marathon, Saturday, November 10, 0830.
District 9
No comments submitted
District 10
District 10: It was a busy month with the Cleveland Airport Mass Casualty Drill, and a half marathon. Public service is winding down now, and SET is the next big thing coming up! See you on the 6th!
Ashtabula County: No comments submitted.
Cuyahoga County: This month's meeting was at the Cuyahoga County EOC. Members have been
exploring ARES Connect with positive reactions.
Geauga County: Perry Drill with FEMA and Local serviced agencies. The Great Geauga County Fair were the events of September.
Lake County: The month started off with a fun event OSPOTA. 31 parks were contacted from Headlands Beach ST PK. No rain in NE Ohio . Down State sounded like it was wetter. On the 18th things got more serious with the Perry Nuke Power Plant FEMA evaluated drill. Lake, Ashtabula and
Geauga Co EOC's were on the air along with the State EOC. At the review meeting FEMA reported no finding. Back to more fun events like the Willoughby Hills FD Touch a Truck Display. Fire Trucks, Bomb disposal trucks other emergency equipment and our Comm Trailer were on display. The kids large and small had good time playing with the fire hose demonstration. Our Comm Trailer was on display and operating at the President Garfield Home free admission day.
Lorain County: No comments submitted.
Medina County: No comments submitted.