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19 July 2008 2008 ARES E-Letter
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The latest ARES E-Letter has been published. It is available on the ARRL web site along with all back issues.
In This Issue:
+ ARRL Tells Red Cross of Remaining Background Check Policy Concerns
+ IN HIS OWN WORDS: Sacramento Valley SM W6KJ on California Fire Disaster
+ Minnesota Tornadoes Response
+ GAREC-2008 Assembly Issues Statement, Congratulates Chinese
+ World Amateur Radio Day 2009 to Showcase EmComm
+ Region 2 EMCOR Changes Hands
+ Virginia Section "The New Era Begins Now"
+ LETTERS: Current JNOS Version and Development
+ LETTERS: ESF 15
+ LETTERS: Licensing Standards
+ TRAINING: Git 'R Done!
+ K1CE For a Final
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17 July 2008 Ohio Section ARES report
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The July Ohio ARES report has been released and the full report should be available in the future on the Ohio Section ARES Page.
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24 June 2008 Ohio ARES Report
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The June Ohio ARES report has been released and the full report is available on the Ohio Section ARES Page.
Some excerpts of interest to District 3 ARES members:
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DISTRICT 3 Report (W8ILC/DEC)
Hamvention Ares Forum Was Great..Standing room only..Good Speaker.
Lots of weather events this month, Skywarn was active 12 times..No call
outs for assistance.
More to report on next report.
Have a great summer
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OHIO ARES NOW HAS 10 DISTRICTS - DEC and ADEC ANNOUNCED
The Ohio Section now has 10 ARES districts. New District 10 covers the
counties of Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake and Lorain counties.
These counties were covered previously by Districts 1 and 5. This
realignment allows the Northeastern counties to be covered with a
localized DEC and Assistant DEC.
The DEC for the new District is Matt Welch, KB1LCS. Matt brings a lot
of experience and enthusiasm from his previous ARES appointments in
Virginia and Connecticut. Please welcome Matt to his new
responsibilities in District 10.
Assisting Matt will be Brian Hellinger, N8VUB, who has been appointed
ADEC for District 10. Brian is also the EC for Lorain County.
Please congratulate Matt and Brian on these new appointments!
A new map of the Ohio ARES districts is located on the Ohio Section ARES website.
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21 June 2008 ARES E-Letter
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The latest ARES E-Letter has been published. It is available on the ARRL web site along with all back issues.
In This Issue:
+ The View from Flagler County
+ Midwest Floods
+ Amateur Radio Session Held at National Hurricane Conference
+ 2008 Alabama and Mississippi Hurricane Conference
+ Hawaii State CD Makani Pahili Hurricane Exercise
+ Colorado Tornadoes Response
+ Florida Fires Response
+ A Repeater on the Fire Line in Northern California
+ NHC Director Joins WX4NHC Annual Test
+ LETTERS: New E-Mail Software
+ LETTERS: Red Cross Recruiting Hams in Chicago
+ LETTERS: Message Content Needed
+ LETTERS: On Obesity in Hams
+ LETTERS: Satellites in a Doomsday Scenario
+ LETTERS: United Way Lead for ESF 15?
+ LETTERS: Diminished Licensing, Technical Standards
+ CORRECTION: AO-51 Frequencies
+ K1CE For A Final |
21 May 2008 ARES E-Letter
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The latest ARES E-Letter has been published. It is available on the ARRL web site along with all back issues.
In This Issue:
+ News From ARRL HQ
+ The View from Flagler County
+ "Hurricane Ulysses" Exercise Preps Mississippi Gulf Coast
+ China EQ
+ Midwest, Southeast Tornado Responses
+ Illinois Earthquake Drill Turns to Reality
+ Brady, Texas, Hospital Communications Outage
+ ARES Forum at Gainesville, Florida Hamfest Lauded
+ Crisis in Trauma and Emergency Care
+ Colorado Group Receives D-STAR Equipment; Will Support ARES
+ Interoperability Video
+ Pandemic Flu Video
+ UPDATE: SMS E-Mail Address for AT&T Phones
+ LETTERS: "SMS" on APRS
+ LETTERS: From the Hurricane Watch Net Manager
+ LETTERS: Diminished Licensing, Technical Standards?
+ LETTERS: "Digital Call signs"
+ LETTERS: Observations of a FEMA Disaster Assessor
+ EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT RESOURCE: Live News Cameras
+ K1CE For a Final
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23 January 2008: National Response Framework released 22-Jan-2008
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The
new National Response Framework (NRF) that will replace the former
National Response Plan (IS-800), effective March 22, 2008.
Whether or not you have completed IS-800, District 3 ARES Leadership
recommends that everyone complete the new NRF course for awareness of
the scope of its content.
The web site, http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nrf/ will be your complete resource for the NRF.
A PDF file introducing the concept is located here.
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9 January 2008: West Central Ohio (WCO) Regional Pandemic Flu Exercise
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From Fred Stone, W8LLY, originally addressed to GCARES
The 2008 West Central Ohio Regional Pandemic Influenza Exercise will be
conducted on three play days in February from 0900 to 1200 EST on
Tuesdays 5th, 12th and 19th.
Amateur radio IS a primary player in the 2008 Exercise and will be
expected to provide a regional backup communications network between
the County Unified Command Centers and all of the hospitals in each
county. The Unified Command Centers may be located within the County
EOC or within the
Local Health Department (LHD) EOC. Each county also may conduct an
intra-county net between other participating served agencies, as
appropriate.
I was recruited [by one of our Greene County served agencies] to be on
the 2008 Pandemic Influenza Exercise Planning Team to represent amateur
radio because of GCARES' close working relationship with the Greene
County Pubic Health Department, Greene Memorial Hospital, Greene County
EMA and other Greene County served agencies. Thus, I have been
attending the monthly Planning Team meetings for this exercise. Also,
per my position as Assistant District EC, I also have been representing
the other county EC's in our district.
The Exercise Designer and Planning Team Leader has prominently
mentioned the important backup communications capability that amateur
radio can provide in both the Planning Team meetings and in his "local
county presentations." Now, we need to be prepared to live up to those
expectations. And, we can!! and we will!!
WCO District EC Ron Moorefield, W8ILC, has arranged for a district EC
meeting for 10:00 AM on Saturday, January 19,at the Miami County Amateur
Radio Club
Clubhouse in Troy. . All GCARES AEC's and those interested in participating in the
exercise are invited to attend this meeting for a better first hand understanding of the
exercise. The exercise designer, Larry Cleek, will attend this meeting
and present the general information on the exercise and the part
amateur radio will play.
The first West Central Ohio Regional Pandemic Influenza Exercise was
conducted in 2007 during the last half of January and the first half of
February. On the "play day" during the 3rd week of that exercise,
District 3 ARES (D3ARES) activated a regional net, at the request of
Miami County EMA and Public Health officials, to demonstrate its
capability to provide auxiliary communications support for served
agencies within West Central Ohio. That demonstration was very
successful with 15 participants in seven
of the eight West Central Ohio counties using both 2m and 70cm.
Thank you for your thorough review and understanding of this memo and
the documents to be forthcoming. I will look forward to receiving your
reply. Please contact me with any question you might have.
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The West Central Ohio (WCO) Region includes Champaign, Clark,
Darke,Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Shelby counties. These same
8 counties also define the Ohio ARES District 3, WCO Ohio Homeland
Security/Ohio EMA district, the WCO Regional Hospital Association and
the WCO Regional Public Health Departments.
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| 22 December 2007: Proposed Major Disaster Emergency Coordinator/Disaster Field Team
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Excerpts
from the ARRL ARES E-Letter, 19 December 2007
Regional Coordination Function: The Major Disaster Emergency Coordinator Proposal
[As part of a continuing series on recommendations by the former ARRL
National Emergency Response Planning Committee to the League's Board of
Directors last January, this month we'll look at the committee's
proposal in response to the post-Katrina problem of regional ARES
coordination transcending sectional boundaries - ed.]
The Major Disaster Emergency Coordinator (MDEC) is proposed to be an
appointed position that will be filled from applicants vetted by their
Section Manager/Section Emergency Coordinator. The MDEC will be
activated by ARRL Headquarters on an as-needed basis to be the head of
the Disaster Field Team (DFT). The DFT will be composed of volunteers
from the ARRL national ARES database and will be activated to fill the
emergency communications needs that are beyond the capability of the
affected Section or Sections. As soon as the DFT is no longer needed,
it will be disbanded. The MDEC and the DFT will supplement and aid the
Section. They are not intended to replace or assume the authority of
the Section staff.
The MDEC will be activated by and is responsible to the person
performing the function of ARRL Disaster Response Emergency Manager
(DREM) [presumably, at HQ] in response to disasters or large scale
exercises that overwhelm Section resources and require outside
resources from the national database.
The MDEC will implement and maintain emergency communications services
and systems to support served agency requests, with coordination with
the affected Section Manager(s) and Section Emergency Coordinator(s).
The MDEC recruits, appoints, and supervises the DFT leadership to
administer the Field Organization's principal areas of responsibility
in the disaster zone: emergency communications, message traffic
relay, technical activity/problem solving, volunteer monitoring,
government relations, public relations in the general community,
information services for amateurs, and cooperation with served agencies.
The MDEC maintains a close liaison with the Logistics Section of the
Unified Command, and also with the ARRL DREM; makes periodic reports to
the DREM regarding the status of disaster activities; receives
from the DREM information and guidance pertaining to matters of mutual
concern and interest. The MDEC is also responsible for a daily status
report, based on a daily log and input from served agencies
and a daily net conducted with the base and all field stations.
As for qualifications, the MDEC must be certified in First Aid and CPR,
and have completed all three levels of the ARRL Emergency
Communications courses, and the FEMA courses IS-100, IS-200, and
IS-700. Other courses are required, as appropriate.
[This recommendation, as well as others contained in the NERPC report,
are currently being considered by the ARRL HQ staff and the Plans and
Programs Committee of the ARRL Board of Directors. The
Board meets next month.]
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1 December 2007:
New training to be required for Emergency Communicators nationwide
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Excerpts
from the ARRL ARES E-Letter, 29 November 2007
NIMS Five Year Plan Means ARES Needs ICS/NIMS Certifications
For those amateurs who are still on the fence about the importance of
advanced training and ICS/NIMS requirements, the draft release of the
Five Year NIMS Training Plan makes for interesting reading. One point
that is made very clearly is that "access to future national incidents
will be restricted to those who have met the mandatory requirements."
Within the next few years, you simply won't be able to obtain
credentials for access without proof of completion of required
instruction.
Also, having volunteers who have not completed ICS/NIMS training may
already be adversely affecting your served agencies ability to obtain
grant money. And, as one of my instructors pointed out to us, "The
Incident Command System wasn't developed by a bunch of egg-heads in
Washington. It was developed on the ground by wilderness firefighters
in California. It actually works!"
ARES leadership also needs to get comfortable with resource typing, and
to start integrating that into their databases. We need to be prepared
to help our served agencies easily fit amateur radio into their
planning and funding requests, and the easiest way to do that is to
resource type our operators and equipment. The draft report is at: <http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=2962>
-- Les Rayburn, N1LF, Shelby County, Alabama EC
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And where can you get this
training? Glad you asked:
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National Fire Academy On-Line Training Available
Of interest to hams seeking to complete their ICS/NIMS requirements:
Emmitsburg, Maryland - The U.S. Fire Administration's National Fire
Academy announced the launch of a new web-based online training
system NFAOnline. NFAOnline provides an easy one-stop Web site where
fire and emergency services personnel, first responders, emergency
management personnel, and the general public will find free training
and education programs that they can complete at their own pace.
"Now is the time for us to embrace the future and improve our education
through distance learning," said NFA Superintendent, Dr. Denis Onieal.
"NFAOnline provides another option to help further the
professionalism of the nation's fire and emergency services and
strengthen their ability to combat all hazard emergencies."
NFAOnline provides a user-friendly, state-of-the art training system
with technical support and the ability for the student to immediately
print a certificate and transcript. The primary effort of NFAOnline
is to make available training and materials for the fire service,
particularly those unable to attend resident courses in Emmitsburg,
Maryland.
There are currently several courses available in the new NFAOnline.
Additional courses are in development and will be added as they become
available. Course subjects include Community Safety Educators, Fire
Service Supervision, ICS 100 and ICS 200, Emergency Response to
Terrorism, and Emergency Medical Services.
To enroll in NFAOnline, visit <http://www.nfaonline.dhs.gov/>
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25 July 2007 Free online courses of
value to Amateurs
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Submitted by Ron, W8ILC
Some Free Online Training Courses for Amateur Radio Operators
Compiled by Mike Schulsinger, N8QHV
Federal Emergency Management Agency – Emergency Management Institute
http://training.fema.gov/IS/
There are currently 59 online EMI courses available. Unless you
have already taken them locally, I recommend that these four courses be
taken first in the order noted:
IS-100 Introduction to Incident Command
IS-700 National Incident Management System, An Introduction
IS-200 ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents
IS-800.A National Response Plan, An Introduction
Other EMI courses of special value to Amateurs:
IS-292 Disaster Basics
IS-230 Principles of Emergency Management
IS-288 The Role of Volunteer Agencies in Emergency Management
IS-244 Developing and Managing Volunteers
IS-15.A Special Events Contingency Planning for Public Safety
Agencies
IS-271 Anticipating Hazardous Weather and Community Risk
IS-22 Are You ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen
Preparedness
IS-5.A An Introduction to Hazardous Materials
IS-55 Household Hazardous Materials – A Guide for Citizens
IS-340 Hazardous Materials Prevention
Federal Emergency Management Agency – National Fire Academy
www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/nfaonline
Eighteen courses currently available.
Q462 ICS-100 (alternate choice for IS-100 above)
Q463 ICS-200 (alternate choice for IS-200 above)
Q534 Emergency Response to Terrorism: Self-Study
Texas Engineering Extension/Domestic Preparedness Campus
www.teexwmdcampus.com
Eleven courses currently available.
WMD PER303 Emergency Management
WMD 005 WMD/Terrorism Awareness for Emergency Responders
WMD 006a WMD Incident Management/Unified Command Concepts
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21 February 2007:
New Ohio Section ARES Web Site
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From
the February 2007 Ohio SEC Report:
There is a new website available just for the Ohio Section ARES. It's
URL is http://www.ohioares.org
Here you'll find links to all the county and district sites that I know
of. It's still in it's infancy stages, and if you have any links you
feel others may want to see, please send me an e-mail, and we'll get it
posted. This is something I have been wanting to do for quite some
time, please feel free to stop by and take a look.
Frank, KI8GW
Ohio Section EC
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Wednesday evenings at 8:00 PM on the 145.11 /224.16 MHz (67hz tone)
WCOARA repeater system.
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