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Field
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Value
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subject
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ARES Form FSD-96
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State
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Ohio
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Month
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October
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Year
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2015
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Number_of_ARES_Members
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1668
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Change_In_Numbers
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19
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Number_of_DECs_EC_reporting_this_month
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10
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Number_of_ARES_nets_active
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436
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Number_of_nets_with_NTS_Liaison
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10
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DEC_EC_callsigns
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WD8PNZ W8UY KC8WHK WF8B AI8P KB8STK KA8RLC N8SUZ W8FHF
N8AUC
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Number_of_drills_tests_and_training_this_month
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211
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Person_Hours_for_drill_tests_training
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2392.
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Number_of_Public_Service_events
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56
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Person_Hours_for_public_service_events
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1379.5
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Number_of_emergency_operations_this_month
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2
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Person_Hours_for_emergency_operations
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39
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Number_of_ARES_RACES_Events_this_month
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736
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Total_Person_Hours
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6659.33
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Comment
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Jefferson County worked with local officials to assist in
a missing person search. A number of counties participated in the Ohio SET.
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Signature
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Stan Broadway
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| Name | CALL | County | OES Dist | Net Hrs | PS Events | PS hours | EM events | EM hours |
| Gary | NJ8BB | Preble | 3 | 8 | 62 | 0 | 0 | |
| Scott | N8SY | Richland | 6 | 60 | 30 | 10 | ||
| Matthew | KD8TTE | franklin | 7 | 32 | 56 | 0 | ||
| Bob | W8RWR | Franklin | 7 | 1.5 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Mark | KB8YMN | franklin | 7 | 10 | 12 | 0 | ||
| John | K8PJ | Pickaway | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jeff | KB8ZUN | Lorain | 10 | 15 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Clair | W8KF | Huron | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 131.5 | 0 | 177 | 0 | 10 |
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Here is a summary of activity reported from the DEC’s for
October. (Missing counties had no comments.)
Thank you all for everything you do! Now- let’s get
some training on for the winter months!!
ARES Ohio Section Monthly report for the month of:
District 1
I would like to welcome Eric
Willman WD8LEI as the new EC for Wood County. I also want to thank Bob Schumann
W8NYY for all his years of service as the Wood County EC in making Wood County
ARES a great county for amateurs to perform a public service function which had
been sorely lacking before Bob took the reigns. I look forward to working with
Eric in the future as he settles in to his new position.
District 2
District 3
District 4
Butler: BCVHF Assoc as well as BCAREC have finally received
their System Fusion repeaters. Installs are pending as of this writing. Butler
County Amateurs continue to help test weather sirens each month on the first
Wednesday and reporting to the Butler County 911 Center which Sirens don\'t
sound each month.
Clinton: Clinton County was active in the SET.
Hamilton: Hamilton County had a very busy month with the
SET, Hamilton County Health Dept. exercise and training, the Queen Bee Half
Marathon and 4-mile, and the Run Like Hell for Cystic Fibrosis.
District 5
Stark: Stark Co ARES completed
4 public service nets for the month of October that totaled 143 check-ins.
There were no public service events during October but EC Terry, N8ATZ and
Assistant EC\\\'s Mike Lackney, KB8MIB & Mike Palmer, KD8ENV hosted an
information table during the Massillon ARC Hamfest on October 25. The display
included a powerpoint presentation covering basic ARES & Skywarn Operations,
various Go-Boxes and literature provided by the county EMA office. Additional
details of our activities are posted on our website at http://www.wd8aye.net.
District 6
District 7
Delaware: A busy month for the Delaware ARES group logging
90 manhours for the annual SET and another 20 for an EMA drill. It was all good
and very productive and revealed some issues we need to address and better
prepare for Franklin: One of our major events was this month, the
Columbus Marathon. Although we did not have as many hams volunteer this year as
we would have liked, we were able to provide the organizers with the usual
support they deserve and have come to expect. We also were involved with a
FCEM&HS full scale exercise involving 3 counties - Franklin, Delaware, and
Licking. The simulated disaster included an F5 tornado involving all 3
counties, along with a denial of service attack on the internet, which left the
EMA offices with no internet connectivity. As usual, the Hams came to the
rescue providing critical communications including FLDigi passing of forms
between the agencies involved.
Licking: Licking County had a busy October. We participated
in the Ohio SET, Tri-County Full Scale Exercise, Indian Mound Mall Table Top
Exercise. All 3 exercises were successful. Thank you to all of the members that
participated in the exercises. 5 of us were able to go to the EC/AEC class in
Columbus, Licking Co. was well represented. Thanks to Stan N8BHL, Scott N8SY
for a great class and to Franklin Co. EOC for their hospitality. Work on the
CERT / ARES trailer continues and is almost completed.
Marion: October started with the Statewide SET. The Marion
ARES participation began at 0800hrs with an informal net because power went
down locally and then a formal net at 0900hrs when it was realized the grid was
down across the state and perhaps nationwide. We fulfilled all our goals by
operating on emergency power, along with the primary repeater. Contact with
W8SGT was established on HF and VHF. Fldigi was utilized sending and receiving
formal traffic from a shelter location in LaRue to Red Cross Headquarters in
Marion. Contact was established with the EMA Director and countywide simplex
communication was conduced on 2 meters with great success. The October Training
Session was reviewing the SET along with a program on DC Inverters. Don
Freeman, KD8BKT, demonstrated his portable Inverter/Battery system. Larry
Strickland, K8BU, gave a Power Point presentation on how inverters work and how
to determine the size needed for different requirements. Jim Bird, KD8KCH,
demonstrated a portable 2 meter ground-plane style antenna built on a PL-259
chassis mount.
Pickaway: Pickaway Pickaway County ARES members participated
in our annual Goblin Patrol during the Circleville Trick-or-Treat Night on
October 31st. We also participated in the Circleville Downtown Business
Association\\\'s Trick-or-Treat night on October 27th. PCoARES worked with the
Circleville Police Department to be an \\\"extra
set of eyes\\\" during these two events.
District 8
Counties reporting: Athens, Hocking, Lawrence, Pike, Scioto
District 8 just had our Perry County EC Brad Swinehart, AC8GX resign as he is
moving from the area. Looking for a new EC for Perry as well as for Athens,
Vinton and Meigs. New ECs are now on board for Pike - Bill French, KE8AAL and
in Ross - Todd Johnson, KD8UND Athens:
District 9
Coshocton: Thanks to Coshocton County EMA for giving ARES,
CCARA and Skywarn a portion of their display at the Coshocton Fair. We had a
good SET with areas to work on. Starting with the calling tree a little after 8
we had a great turn out. Thanks to ARES who were available. Thanks to those
served agencies who participated also. We have a good working relationship with
all. We had access to our stations on Saturday at the EMA, Sheriff, Coshocton
Hospital, Coshocton Red Cross and we simulated some shelters. We had throughout
the day 3 net controls, an OTS station with back up, several fldigi stations.
We had voice contact with W8SGT after bands improved and also the ots had
contact with OHDEN and OSSBN. EC Steve Wheatcraft
Guernsey: : Four ARES members deployed to and assisted
Muskingum County ARES with their Flu clinic. The SET was conducted as 2 meter
simplex net. All stations were polled as to their ability to operate mobile,
HF, emergency power, and digital. Contact with W8SGT was also accomplished.
ARES also provide communications and coordination for the Byesville Halloween
parade. During the weekly ARES net on Oct 27 an unannounced simulated failure
of the repeater was conducted. All stations were requested to change frequency
to the county ARES simplex frequency. A roll call was conducted on simplex with
all stations heard by the NCS. EC Richard W. Wayt
Jefferson: Worked with local agencies in a search and rescue
of missing man (16 Man-hours). EC Robert Carson.
Muskingum: The public service event was the county flu shot
clinic which we count as an SET. This event is used as an SET for the EMA as
well as other public services including the Red Cross. EC Elizabeth Nichols
District 10
SET had good participation across the district.
Ashtabula: October had us on our toes a bit more than the
past few months. The few storms we had brought out the best of our preparedness
skills. With water spouts being sighted over the lake and many trees down due
to winds- we were all keeping our fingers crossed that it would not lead to
anything worse. Thankfully it did not. The club/ARES purchased 2 new HF radios
to add to the arsenal of gear in the trailer. We are now one step closer to
being finished! November has already started and we are all preparing for the
ACARC Christmas dinner. Everyone is excited to share in an evening of great
conversation and wonderful food... not to mention a radio raffle or two!!
Cuyahoga: We have completed all commitments to served
agencies this year. We look forward to helping with the upcoming RNC.
Geauga: Work SET and the Pumpkin Festival. Set up and ran a
portable repeater.
Lake: On Oct. 4th Lake ARES provided support communications
for the Lake Health Northern Ohio
Marathon. This also served as our SET event.
We placed an operator at our position in the Lake County Comm Truck linking the
Amateur radio Net with the County Sheriff and Safety Forces of the four
communities that Marathon ran through.
Medina: NF8O spent 42 1/2 hours at the EOC reprogramming and
relocating radios, attending training meetings and drills
