ARRL Ohio Section - FSD-96
Month: November
Year: 2018
Total Number of ARES Members: 1586
Change since last month: 22
Number of DEC's / EC's reporting this month: 10
Number of ARES Nets active: 496
Number of Nets active with NTS Liaisons: varies
Call-signs of DEC's / EC's reporting: WD8PNC, W8UY, W8LLY, N8TFD, AI8O, W8DLB, KB8YMN, N8SUZ, W8FHF, N8AUC
Number of drills, tests and training sessions this month: 655
Person Hours: 7330
Number of Public Service Events this month: 64
Person Hours: 857
Number of Emergency Operations this month: 1
Person Hours: 72
Total number of ARES/RACES Events this month: 696
Total Person Hours: 8259
Comments: Counties are working to implement ARES Connect. Ohio Section DEC conference was held with work to revise the Ohio Section Emergency Response Plan.
Submitted by and call-sign: Stan Broadway
Email: stan@standi.com
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Month: November
Year: 2018
Total Number of ARES Members: 1586
Change since last month: 22
Number of DEC's / EC's reporting this month: 10
Number of ARES Nets active: 496
Number of Nets active with NTS Liaisons: varies
Call-signs of DEC's / EC's reporting: WD8PNC, W8UY, W8LLY, N8TFD, AI8O, W8DLB, KB8YMN, N8SUZ, W8FHF, N8AUC
Number of drills, tests and training sessions this month: 655
Person Hours: 7330
Number of Public Service Events this month: 64
Person Hours: 857
Number of Emergency Operations this month: 1
Person Hours: 72
Total number of ARES/RACES Events this month: 696
Total Person Hours: 8259
Comments: Counties are working to implement ARES Connect. Ohio Section DEC conference was held with work to revise the Ohio Section Emergency Response Plan.
Submitted by and call-sign: Stan Broadway
Email: stan@standi.com
Files to upload?:
November 2018 District Activity Report
SEC Comments: Thanks to DEC’s for attending our DEC Conference this month. We talked at length about ARES Connect, and about some of the issues we face in ARES: specifically, the general aging of our population and how that affects our ability to respond; the need for alternate communications that will supplement our standard VHF FM voice; and from what age group we can draw fresh volunteers. We’ll incorporate some of these into the Ohio Emergency Response Plan over winter. I hope to have that complete by our April conference! Over this winter, please have some meetings with your served agencies (and cultivate some new ones, like health and board of elections) to keep up to date with their plans and requirements! Thank you for everything you do as you serve your community. I wish you all a very blessed Christmas with family and friends!
District 1
The Northwest Ohio Traffic and Training Net for November had 244 check ins handled 147 pieces of traffic in 483 minutes in 30 sessions. Figures include public service hours put in by the DEC and ADEC\'s. Work continues on the NORC-2 Hospital net and we are looking to expand into the surrounding Districts to participate.
District 2
No comments submitted
District 3
DISTRICT 3 SUMMARY: 100% of Nine Counties reporting: 307 Members (+1 change); (64 Voice Net Sessions, 16 Digital Net Sessions (80 total Net Events & 376 Net man-hours); 20 Meetings-Drills-Training-Tests (390 man-hours); 5 Public Service Events (258 man-hrs) and 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hrs); for 105 Total Events and 1024 Total man-hours.
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: (23 members, 0 change): 5 weekly voice net sessions (50 Net man-hours); 0 Public Service Event (0 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours) and 2 other ARES events (0 man-hours) for a total of 5 events and 50 man-hours.
CLARK COUNTY: (33 members, -4 change): 3 weekly net sessions (15 Net man-hours); 0 Public Service Event (0 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours) and 2 other ARES events (32 man-hours) for a total of 5 events and 47 man-hours.
DARKE COUNTY: (14 members, 0 change): 4 weekly voice net sessions (9 Net man-hours); 1 Public Service Event (120 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours) and 1 other ARES event (10 man-hours ) for a total of 6 events and 139 man-hours.
GREENE COUNTY: (57 members, 0 change): 20 weekly voice net sessions, 8 weekly digital net sessions (141 Net man-hours); 2 Public Service Events (58 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 11 other ARES related activities (270 man-hours) for a total of 49 events and 769 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 Weekly Net. Other activity: Continuing Mesh and Winlink maintenance, demonstrations, testing & training; served agency training; meetings and tours; Technician, General and Extra Class License courses and a VE exam session.
LOGAN COUNTY (RACES UNIT): (10 members): 4 weekly voice net sessions (2 man-hours); and 1 other RACES activity (18 man-hours) for a total of 5 events and 20 man-hours.
MIAMI COUNTY: (26 members, +1 change): 13 weekly voice nets, 4 weekly digital nets (58 Net man-hours); 0 Public Service (0 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 0 other ARES events (0 man-hours) for a total of 17 events and 58 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.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY: (88 members, +2 change): 3 weekly voice net sessions, 3 weekly digital net sessions (14 Net man-hours); 0 Public Service Events (0 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 2 other ARES related events (14 man-hours) for a total of 8 events and 28 man-hours.
PREBLE COUNTY: (17 members, +3 change): 4 weekly net sessions (4 Net man-hours); 1 Public Service Event (30 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 1 other ARES events (2 man-hours) for a total of 6 events and 36 man-hours.
Comments: Three new members were recruited this month. Preble County assisted Darke co. ARES with the annual horse parade in Greenville Ohio. Post were manned to assist with traffic control and crowd control, freeing up numerous Law Enforcement Officers. One situation requiring Law Enforcement Officers was handled as emergency traffic.
SHELBY COUNTY: (39 members): 4 weekly net sessions; 1 digital net sessions (45 man-hours); 1 Public Service Event (50 man-hours); 0 Emergency Operations (0 man-hours); and 2 other ARES events (44 man-hours); for a total of 8 events and 139 man-hours.
Comments: 4 Sunday Evening Nets; 1 C4FM Nets 2 Fundraiser 10-27 & 11-24; November 6 Sidney Winter Wonderland Parade.
DISTRICT 3 ACTIVITIES: 4 District 3 ARES weekly voice net sessions (38 Net man-hours); and 0 other District 3 activities (0 man-hours); for a total of 4 events and 38 man-hours.
District 4
This was a quiet month in District 4. Hamilton County is training on MESH networking, updating antennas at the regional EOC, and doing outreach on 88.3 FM (an all-volunteer broadcast station.)
District 5
District 5 EC Dennis Conklin AI8P has resigned effective immediately due to personal and family considerations.
District 6
No comments submitted
District 7
Delaware County: New EC just getting started- Operation manual revised and ready, new alerting system in place (text and email), meeting with EMA Dir, established tracking program for time accounting and awards (local, secondary to connect). With EMA will have 13 top issues to work on (#1= tornado). Training meetings planned out for 2019. Working on contact with local hospital, Sheriff and Fire Chiefs. Will work on recruiting. Meanwhile, work on the Delaware station 2.0 at the Red Cross is nearing completion- new ARES desk with 3- 8800's and DMR plus HF as County Control Station.
Franklin County: A very slow month with the holiday season beginning. We continue to engage with ARES Connect. Final details are being worked out on a future AUXCOM class.
Union County: We have been working with FLDigi for the digital simplex net. I have been using ares connect. For some reason the numbers didn't match what I put in this form. I exported the report as a csv file and it wasn't very friendly unless you know what the text box numbers listed at the top of the columns are for. I then exported it as a PDF and got the numbers from it. The total according to ARES connect comes out to 40.75 hours total. See attached files for the ARES connect reports. We setup some mesh networking gear and got it talking with each other at our monthly meeting. That was fun. We are looking at starting a mesh network here in Union County.
Licking County; Hope everyone had a great and safe Thanksgiving. Several members had a chance to work on training this month and was able to take the "Stop the Bleed" training as well as a few ICS courses. A few members that are also members of the CERT Team helped out with the annual courthouse lighting in downtown Newark. LCEMA is gearing up for a move to a new location, we will be tearing down our equipment from the current EOC and moving it to the new EOC location. EC: Bret Stemen KD8SCL
Fairfield County: ARES Monthly Meeting, Tallmadge School Science Space Camp, Amateur Radio Testing, Lancaster Christmas/holiday Parade, Weekly Nets, Know Your Environment Training. Operator Deployment/Fox Hunt Rescue/Self Sustainment/Plan B Training, Development of Net Control Operator Training Schedule.
District 8
Counties reporting: Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Lawrence, Pike, Scioto EC comments:
Athens: Supported Bobcat Trail Marathon at Burr Oak Lake State Park on November 10 with 8 members
Hocking: HVARC once again did the lineup for our local Veterans Parade. An honor we always enjoy. Hocking County has started a Thursday night Rag Chew net. We meet on our repeater at 8:00pm and all operators are welcome to join in. Freq. is 147.345 with PL of 114.8 Lawrence: Lawrence county had our first class on DMR radios. We also provided communications for the Ironton Christmas Parade, and had our annual dinner and awards presentations. The Southern Ohio Amateur Radio Association, Inc. is proud to be the newest ARRL Special Services Club. The award was presented by Ohio Section Manager, Scott Yonally. The award was accepted by club President, Jim Rowe, N8TVO.
Pike: Participated in Southern Ohio SET Exercise with Scioto, Ross and Lawrence counties. Communications between counties established using each counties local repeater and simplex VHF. Verification of county deployment locations verified using local repeater and simplex VHF DEC comments: Congratulations to the Sunday Creek Amateur Radio Federation (SCARF) for winning first in their class in the 2018 Ohio State Parks on the Air and Athens County Amateur Radio Association for winning second in their class in OSPOTA. SCARFfest (Nelsonville Hamfest) coming up Sunday January 20, 2019 Tri County Career Center, 8 AM to noon. ARRL VE Session 10 AM.
District 9
COSHOCTON CO: SATERN presentation was given at meeting by WX8OH... LEPC meeting was attended by AA8BN and KE8XM. .. Digital nets were held each week by KE8WIP, net mgr. On 147.045 pl71.9.....W8SGT, OHDEN and OSSBN check-ins continue by Coshocton OTS group .... AA8BN Coshocton EC
GUERENSEY CO: ARES members assisted with the City of Cambridge Christmas parade. Richard Wayt, WD8SDH, EC
JEFFERSON CO: Working hard to get group up to readiness level in the digital modes. Robert Carson, N8CUX, EC. Only three counties reported this month. Also I attended the DEC meeting in Delaware, OH. Many subjects discussed and planning for next year reviewed.. Sonny Alfman, W8FHF, DEC.
District 10
District 10: DEC Conference in Delaware was very worthwhile.
Ashtabula County: No comments submitted.
Cuyahoga County: There were no Cuyahoga County ARES meetings or nets in November. In spite of that, we logged 31.25 net hours from other nets. SkyWarn Spotter Training was well attended with 37 individuals. Members are becoming more comfortable with ARES Connect, however there have been a few errors with the system itself. CC ARES leaders attended several safety-related meetings this month that were held by other organizations. Leaders also created a list of topics to cover in 2019 and planned to recognize members who had outstanding participation this year. Certificates will be presented at the meeting in January 2019.
Geauga County: No comments submitted.
Lake County: Activated the Amateur radio room at the Lake County History Center during their Holiday Show. A good event to demo Amateur radio to the general public.
Lorain County: No comments submitted.
Medina County: Sorry late this month. Hard drive runs all the time and I wasted time trying to fix it with no success.