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
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 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