From ham557 at yahoo.com  Sat Sep  3 11:47:03 2005
From: ham557 at yahoo.com (Lowell S.)
Date: Sat Sep  3 11:52:01 2005
Subject: [Adrian ARC] Fwd: ARES E-Letter for September 03, 2005
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RELAY BY KC8JJT
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Lowell
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--- ARRL Web site <memberlist@www.arrl.org> wrote:

> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 01:25:19 -0400
> Subject: ARES E-Letter for September 03, 2005
> To: 
> From: "ARRL Web site" <memberlist@www.arrl.org>
> 
> **********************
> The ARRL ARES E-Letter
> Special Edition
> September 2, 2005
> **********************
> 
> Edited by Rick Palm, K1CE
> 
>
=================================================================
> ARES reports, other related contributions, editorial
> questions or
> comments: Rick Palm, K1CE, k1ce@arrl.net
>
=================================================================
> 
> SPECIAL EDITION: HURRICANE KATRINA
> 
> "I know many people would like to move now. Please
> don't. I know many
> of you want to enter the fray, come to the coast and
> get involved.
> Please, not yet. Transportation and logistics,
> including volunteer
> groups coming in, must be done in an orderly manner
> or we may only
> add to the chaos and confusion." -ARRL President Jim
> Haynie, W5JBP
> 
>
=================================================================
> 
> IN THIS ISSUE:
> 
> +  Message from Southern Florida SM Sherri Brower,
> W4STB
> +  Volunteer Disaster Communications Registration
> Data Base
> +  First Contact: Southern Florida's Experience
> +  Gulf Coast ARES Emergency Net
> +  Louisiana Situation 
> +  Alabama Situation
> +  Mississippi Situation
> +  Northern Florida Mutual Assistance Team Effort
> +  On Special Assignment: Hillsborough County
> (Florida) ARES/RACES
> +  HF ARES Net Frequencies, Other Frequencies, Key
> Station Activity
> +  ARRL MOU Partners' Activity
> +  New Product: PowerFlare might be helpful for
> responders
> +  Editorial
> +  Final Note to Deployers
>
=================================================================
> 
> Numerous reports are coming in on the devastation
> and relief
> response, including ARES, manifested by Hurricane
> Katrina. This
> special release addresses initial ARES responses and
> planning.
> Everyone has seen the media reports and the public
> notices of various
> governmental agencies and Non-Governmental
> Organizations, so they
> will not be reiterated here. The purpose of this
> edition is to share
> early reports and stories of what our fellow ARES
> members are doing
> in the field in response to one of the worst natural
> disasters to
> beset the United States. These efforts are only
> preliminary, and in
> no way represent the total ARES effort, which will
> evolve over the
> hard hours, days and weeks to come. - K1CE
> ________________________
> 
> +  Message from Southern Florida SM Sherri Brower,
> W4STB
> 
> "We are all concerned about the people in the path
> of Katrina's
> destruction. Many of us have friends or family in
> the area, others
> have friends and co-workers with friends or family
> in the area. At
> this time information into and out of the affected
> areas is sporadic.
>  Our fellow hams are overloaded with requests for
> food, water and
> rescue. They cannot handle health and welfare
> traffic at this time.
> Nor can I. Go to <http://www.satern.org/>  with such
> requests.	[See
> story below - ed.]
> 
> "Here's how you can help now.  Keep frequencies with
> any kind of
> relief traffic clear -- that means listen only,
> don't be a policeman.
> Have patience. If you want to go to the area to
> assist with
> communications or other activities, contact the Red
> Cross or other
> relief agencies. They have required training courses
> before you can
> be deployed, so do not be surprised if you are told
> "no." Donate
> money. Coordinate your travel offer for ARES mutual
> assistance with
> your SEC. Do not attempt to travel to the area on
> your own." -W4STB
> ____________________
> 
> +  Volunteer Disaster Communications Registration
> and Message Traffic
> Data Base  
> 
> South Texas SEC Jerry Reimer, KK5CA, adds "The
> immediate action is
> for ARES leaders in adjacent and nearby sections to
> identify ARES
> volunteers who are qualified and willing to travel
> into the
> [affected] areas." He also reported the
> establishment of a "Volunteer
> Disaster Communications Registration and Message
> Traffic Data Base" -
> see <http://katrina.ab2m.net/> He added this caveat:
> "Before
> registering, consider there are unlikely to be any
> hotel or motel
> rooms available; any accommodations that are
> available are likely to
> be primitive and makeshift. Water suitable for
> drinking or even
> washing is expected to be scarce. Unless you are
> presently mentally
> and physically prepared for complete
> self-sufficiency for at least
> several days, please do not immediately register. 
> Not everyone needs
> to be in the first wave of volunteers; the recovery
> effort will last
> weeks and perhaps months, requiring an extended
> volunteer pool."
> ___________________
> 
> 
> + First Contact: Southern Florida's Experience
> 
> August 25 and 26, 2005-- Hurricane Katrina first
> crossed paths with
> the U.S. in south Florida. Jeff Beals, WA4AW, ARRL
> Southern Florida
> Section Emergency Coordinator, reported that county
> ECs advised him
> of several activations and responses. In Martin
> County, the EOC was
> activated with resource and tactical nets operating
> in support of Red
> Cross HQ, shelters and the EOC. Palm Beach and
> Broward Counties saw
> the same level of activity. Miami-Dade County ARES
> supported their
> EOC and shelters, with ARES/RACES DCAT teams
> assisting Red Cross with
> damage assessment and food distribution. Tactical
> communications were
> provided for all of the above operations. There were
> no activations
> in Glades, Lee or Hendry Counties, according to
> Beals. The Southern
> Florida ARES Net (SFAN) held four special sessions
> on August 25 and
> 26. 
> _____________
> 
> 
> + Gulf Coast ARES Emergency Net
> 
> As Katrina exited the southern tip of the Florida
> peninsula, the Gulf
> Coast's uneasiness turned to alarm when the massive
> storm came ashore
> near the under-sea-level port city of New Orleans. A
> new Battle for
> New Orleans was soon unfolding.
> 
> South Texas SEC Jerry Reimer, KK5CA, informed us of
> Gulf Coast ARES
> mutual assistance: "The South Texas, Louisiana and
> Mississippi ARRL
> sections have had a mutual assistance agreement,
> primarily focused on
> providing net control stations for HF nets.  See
> <http://www.laarrl.org/emergops.htm>.  Accordingly,
> the Gulf Coast
> ARES Emergency Net began operating Monday, August 29
> on 3873 kHz and
> 7285 kHz, and health and welfare traffic nets are
> operating on 3935
> kHz and 7290 kHz."
> 
> As of today, Friday, September 2, the West Gulf ARES
> Emergency Net
> remains active on 7285 kHz days and 3873 kHz nights,
> handling
> emergency and priority traffic only. The net has
> been operating 24/7.
> Health-and-welfare traffic is being handled on 7290
> kHz days and 3935
> kHz nights. [As this is being written, I am
> listening to the net on
> 7285 kHz: they are performing a very professional
> job. -ed.]
> 
> Other sections are also providing mutual assistance.
> See related
> stories below.
> ________________________
> 
> 
> + Louisiana Situation
> 
> Early on, Louisiana SEC Gary Stratton, K5GLS, said
> ARES teams were on
> hold since no one was allowed to go into many areas
> of southern
> Louisiana.  Following assessments, the nature of the
> ARES role could
> be determined. Louisiana SM Mickey Cox, K5MC, said
> that Richard Webb,
> NF5B, from New Orleans was on the air from the
> Louisiana State
> University Hospital. He had reported early that
> sections of New
> Orleans were under water. Louisiana Assistant
> Section Manager Mike
> King, W5MP, from Slidell, also was on the air Monday
> helping provide
> communication from a hospital on the north shore of
> Lake
> Pontchatrain.
> 
> Now, ARES in Louisiana is supporting various relief
> organizations.
> Stratton said most efforts have gone toward
> assisting with emergency
> management and search-and-rescue operations. He says
> he has ARES
> members ready to roll once state authorities reopen
> the hardest-hit
> parishes that have been closed off to outsiders. "We
> have people on
> standby from all over northern Louisiana and from
> the South Texas
> Section basically champing at the bit trying to find
> out when they
> can go," Stratton told ARRL. "It's a very tough
> wait."
> 
> Volunteers have been or will be deployed into the
> areas that are not
> cordoned off, Stratton said. He also said most of
> the emergency
> activity has been on HF, as repeaters were knocked
> out or have
> exhausted emergency power resources. He noted that
> some systems north
> of Lake Pontchatrain were coming back on line,
> however, as power is
> restored. ARES volunteers from Bossier and Caddo
> parishes are being
> deployed into areas that are still open. "We're
> handling a lot of
> traffic from down there that ends up being made by
> cell phones from
> people in the affected area to relatives to people
> up here in
> Shreveport," Stratton explained, "and they call the
> 911 center in the
> Bossier area, and we have a radio link from our EOC
> to Bossier." From
> there the traffic goes onto the HF net. 
> ________________
> 
> 
> + Alabama Situation
> 
> Staff in Newington also talked with Alabama SM Greg
> Sarratt, W4OZK,
> by telephone, in northern Alabama. Power outages
> occurred as Katrina
> moved through the northern Alabama region, bringing
> flooding rains
> and high winds. SKYWARN nets were very active, too,
> according to
> Sarratt, who handled a volunteer shift at the
> Huntsville National
> Weather Service (NWS). ARES groups throughout the
> state and
> especially in central and south Alabama were
> providing communications
> for their local emergency management agencies, and
> Red Cross
> chapters.  
> ________________
> 
> 
> + Mississippi Situation
> 
> Mississippi Section Manager Malcolm Keown, W5XX, in
> Vicksburg, was
> initially reported on the air using generator power.
> His area had no
> electrical power or telephone service, so reports so
> far have been
> scant. We did receive this: "the West Gulf ARES
> Emergency Net will
> activate . . . check-ins will be limited to served
> agency
> representatives as well as stations with emergency,
> priority, and
> weather related traffic or stations in the affected
> storm event area
> with information or inquiries."
>  
> Radio amateurs wanting to volunteer for ARES work
> were advised to
> contact their District Emergency Coordinator or
> county Emergency
> Coordinator.  A list of the Mississippi DECs and ECs
> is available on
> the section website: see <http://www.arrlmiss.org>.
> 
> Now, ARES members are active in the three
> hardest-hit
> counties--Harrison, Hancock and Jackson. Assistant
> Mississippi SM
> Edwin Franks, AD5IS, reported people have been
> calling him at home to
> get information about friends and relatives in the
> stricken area. DEC
> Thomas Hammack, W4WLF, in Gulfport, has been among
> those volunteering
> at the Harrison County EOC. Amateurs in the three
> counties have been
> using HF, VHF and UHF resources to support emergency
> management as
> well as the Red Cross, The Salvation Army and the
> Baptist Men's
> Kitchen. Amateurs also have been handling
> considerable
> health-and-welfare traffic, he said.
> 
> Mutual Assistance to Mississippi: About a half dozen
> radio amateurs,
> including the aforementioned Alabama SM Greg
> Sarratt, W4OZK, were
> preparing to head to Jackson, Mississippi, as part
> of a Southern
> Baptist Disaster Relief trip. They will provide
> communications and
> other assistance for the relief group. Another group
> from Alabama
> will be heading on to southern Mississippi or
> Louisiana once
> assignments are confirmed. 
> ____________________
> 
>  
> + Northern Florida Mutual Assistance Team Effort
> 
> Storm riding veteran and Northern Florida SM Rudy
> Hubbard, WA4PUP, is
> gathering a team to assist neighboring Mississippi
> upon clearance and
> coordination by the Florida State Emergency
> Operations Center (SEOC).
> Northern Florida SEC Joe Bushel, W2DWR, stated that
> radio amateurs
> going should be prepared to spend a week in the
> area. VHF, UHF and HF
> capabilities will be needed as well as digital, ATV
> and SSTV modes.
> Bushel asked DECs for lists of volunteers. "Do not
> depart without a
> Florida-issued Tracker Number," advised Bushel and
> Hubbard. Tracker
> Numbers will only be available from them. The
> Northern Florida ARES
> Net (3950 kHz) and Phone Net (3940 kHz) are good
> sources for
> deployment information.
> ___________________ 
> 
> 
> + On Special Assignment: Hillsborough County
> (Florida) ARES/RACES
> 
> Gary Sessums, KC5QCN, Hillsborough County EC,
> reports that his
> ARES/RACES organization has been tasked by the
> Florida Division of
> Emergency Management (FDEM) through the Emergency
> Management
> Assistance Compact (EMAC) to deploy the State of
> Florida Emergency
> Deployable Interoperable Communications System
> (EDICS) and the State
> of Florida Mutual Aid Radio Communications (MARC)
> Unit to the
> Mississippi Gulf Coast in support of Hurricane
> Katrina recovery
> operations.
> 
> In addition to the public safety communications
> equipment they will
> be deploying, team members will interface with
> Amateur Radio, the
> Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS), Civil Air
> Patrol (CAP), and
> the Federal government's SHARES HF radio system.
> They will also
> attempt to pass health and welfare traffic via
> amateur radio. 
> 
> The team was also tasked with providing
> communications support
> locally in Tampa for the National Disaster Medical
> System (NDMS)
> airlift of hospital patients from the flooded
> hospitals in New
> Orleans to local hospitals in Hillsborough.
> ARES/RACES operators are
> stationed at Tampa's airport and at the Hillsborough
> County EOC to
> track plane landings and patient head count
> information. 
> 
> The team that was selected to deploy had taken the
> required courses,
> including the ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency
> Communications Course
> (ARECC), and have specific skills needed to
> accomplish the mission.
> 
> [Late note: This team is en route to the affected
> areas as this is
> being written-ed.]
> __________________________
> 
> 
> + Known ARES HF and VHF Operations
> 
> The following is a list of ARES net frequencies that
> may be active,
> courtesy of East Central Florida DEC designate Jay
> Musikar, AF2C:
> 
> 3873 kHz Louisiana ARES Emergency (night) 
> 3873 kHz Texas ARES Emergency (night) 
> 3873 kHz Mississippi ARES Emergency 
> 3910 kHz Mississippi ARES 
> 3923 kHz Mississippi ARES 
> 3935 kHz Louisiana ARES (health and welfare) 
> 3935 kHz Texas ARES (health and welfare) 
> 3935 kHz Mississippi ARES (health and welfare) 
> 3950 kHz Northern Florida ARES 
> 7273 kHz Texas ARES (alternate) 
> 7285 kHz West Gulf ARES Emergency (day) 
> 7285 kHz Louisiana ARES Emergency (day) 
> 7285 kHz Mississippi ARES Emergency (day)
> 7285 kHz Texas ARES Emergency (day) 
> 7290 kHz Texas ARES (health and welfare) 
> 7290 kHz Louisiana ARES (health and welfare)
> 7290 kHz Texas ARES (health and welfare) 
> 7290 kHz Mississippi ARES (health and welfare)
> 
> Other reported frequencies:
> 
> 7298 kHz Kessler AFB, Mississippi operator is Alan
> Deaton, KU4WN.
> 7666 kHz Kessler AFB, Mississippi (Note: this
> frequency is outside
> the amateur band).
> 
> VHF Operations:
> 
> 444.200 MHz pl 114.8 New Orleans repeater is
> operational and EOC in
> Baton Rouge is monitoring; 147.380 MHz North shore
> of Lake
> Ponchartrain; 147.241 MHz pl 114.8 is operational
> from East Jefferson
> in New Orleans.
> 
> Active Station Operations in Affected Areas:
> 
> WB5LHS [Louisiana Office Of Homeland Security And
> Emergency
> Preparedness Club Station], Baton Rouge EOC and
> links to FEMA; W5SLA
> [Ozone Amateur Radio Club] Slidell (Louisiana)
> National Weather
> Service Office; Larry Kirchner, KG7FF, Meadow Crest
> Hospital in
> Grenta, Louisiana; Danny Smith, KC5EST, EOC Bay St
> Louis, Mississippi
> (between New Orleans and Biloxi); Tom Miller, AC5TM,
> working on Levee
> Pumping Stations; Bruce Kachline, KD4WDD, in port at
> Oak Harbor
> Marina, Slidell, Louisiana, accepting incoming
> e-mail to
> KD4WDD@winlink.org; Oris Grim III, N4CND, hauling
> materials for FEMA;
> N4ARC, American Red Cross, Orlando, Florida.
> _______________________________ 
> 
> 
> + ARRL MOU Partners' Activity
> 
> American Red Cross: The American Red Cross is
> providing a safe haven
> for nearly 4,000 evacuees in more than 230 Red Cross
> shelters, from
> the panhandle of Florida, across Alabama,
> Mississippi, Louisiana,
> Georgia, and Texas. The Red Cross is launching the
> largest
> mobilization of resources for a single natural
> disaster involving
> thousands of trained disaster relief workers, tons
> of supplies, and
> support. The Red Cross relies on donations to do its
> work. The best
> way to help is by making an online contribution to
> the Disaster
> Relief Fund at: <http://www.redcross.org/>. 
> 
> More Red Cross: Earl Leach, WX4J, relayed this ARC
> message: "The Red
> Cross has the same problems with communication as
> the general public.
> We heed all directions from public officials, and do
> not enter areas
> until they are deemed safe. The Red Cross does not
> have information
> on the well being of any individuals. Our phone
> lines are being
> overwhelmed with calls, and we appreciate the desire
> to know how
> people fared during the storm. Medical and
> government officials will
> contact families in serious cases if necessary. The
> best way to help
> the Red Cross assist those affected by the storm is
> to remain patient
> and help us keep our phone lines open for
> emergencies only."
> 
> The Salvation Army: Reports have the Salvation
> Army's SATERN net
> handling more than 12,000 H/W message requests. The
> net directs
> inquirers to the SATERN web site
> <http://www.satern.org>, with the
> on-the-air SATERN net looking for emergency traffic
> only. There has
> been "no traffic out of the storm zone at this
> time." Look for the
> SATERN net on 14.265 MHz, or possibly 40-meters as
> conditions
> dictate. SATERN National Net Director Jim Adams,
> WA0LSB, says the net
> is activating daily at 1400 UTC and continuing until
> 20 meters
> closes. "We estimate that approximately 1000 Amateur
> Radio operators
> are checking into the SATERN net each day," he said.
> "Most of them
> have traffic and are an excellent source for relays
> and traffic
> handling. Each day, we are able to pass many pieces
> of traffic."
> 
> An ARRL report had SATERN volunteers helping with
> rooftop rescues:
> "Amateur Radio was instrumental in saving several
> stranded flood
> victims this week in Louisiana and Mississippi."
> _____________________
> 
> 
> + New Product May Help: PowerFlare Safety Light of
> Possible Use for
> Deployments
> 
> An ARES EC and police officer, Kenneth Dueker,
> KB6BPM, in Palo Alto,
> California, has invented the PowerFlare Safety Light
> <http://www.powerflare.com>. According to his note,
> the PowerFlare
> safety light is about the size of a hockey puck,
> contains
> ultra-bright LED lights, and is durable enough to be
> run over by
> large trucks. Uses include: traffic safety,
> illumination and
> signaling in emergency (earthquake, hurricane, power
> failure) light,
> and Emergency Response Teams. 
> 
> The safety product is built in California and is
> currently in use by
> law enforcement, fire departments, and other first
> responders, as
> well as road construction and other users.  ARRL and
> ARES members may
> be interested in PowerFlare. Source: Kenneth Dueker,
> KB6BPM,
> PowerFlare Corporation President and CEO, e-mail:
> kdueker@powerflare.com
> _________________________
> 
> 
> + Editorial: Interoperability a Key Role for Amateur
> Radio
> 
> National Public Radio (NPR) featured a brief
> interview with a
> Louisiana state senator yesterday, who made the
> observation that
> their biggest problem is communication among the
> various responding
> agencies. That comment brought back memories:
> interoperability among
> agencies has been a long time, deeply entrenched
> problem, and is
> fostered in part by poor coordination and planning,
> or to put it less
> politely, "turf protection." It's a manifestation of
> human nature and
> organizational behavior, I suppose. 
> 
> Reader Don Lamont, WD5AAH, commented: "My only
> problem is that I have
> watched TV all day on the terrible destruction
> caused by Katrina and
> listened to the government complain about
> communications. Will we
> spend another billion dollars on communication gear
> that won't work
> when they need it or will we call out the amateurs
> to provide the
> communications."
> 
> So, here we have a new event that presents another
> perfect
> opportunity for ARES members: fill the
> interoperability gap. That
> opportunity will manifest itself in countless
> places, with countless
> agencies in the days and weeks to come, as the Gulf
> Coast slowly
> recovers. When the time comes for post-recovery
> evaluations, ARES may
> find itself written into more inter-agency
> communication plans, with
> more government and agency support. At least that's
> what we should
> work for, when we get to that point down the long,
> hard road to come.
> -- K1CE
> ___________________________
> 
> 
> + Final Note to Deployers:
> 
> "Caution" should be the keynote of those ARES
> members getting ready
> to deploy to the affected areas. Make no mistake
> about it: you are
> going into harm's way. There will be the usual gross
> hazards-the
> weakened buildings and trees, the water, and debris.
> And there will
> be unseen hazards from the microbial world. Before
> departure, see
> your local clinic for shots that will likely include
> tetanus,
> Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B, among others. Be sure
> that you are
> prepared physically to endure a harsh environment,
> without the usual
> creature comforts, including a bathroom. Also be
> prepared for the
> mental hazards: you will see things that will be
> psychologically
> disturbing. You will endure fatigue that you have
> never felt before.
> It is a fatigue that you will feel to the core of
> your being.
> 
> But, know one more thing: We on the periphery will
> be with you in
> spirit, and will be in front of our radios to
> support your efforts by
> relaying your messages and offering words of
> encouragement.  We are
> proud that you are one of us. - K1CE
> 
>
======================================================================
> The ARES E-Letter is published on the third
> Wednesday of each month
> by the American Radio Relay League--The National
> Association For
> Amateur Radio--225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111; tel
> 860-594-0200;
> fax 860-594-0259; <http://www.arrl.org/>. Jim
> Haynie, W5JBP,
> President.
> 
> The ARES E-Letter is an e-mail digest of news and
> information of
> interest to active members of the ARRL Amateur Radio
> Emergency
> Service (ARES). 
> 
> Material from The ARES E-Letter may be republished
> or reproduced in
> whole or in part in any form without additional
> permission. Credit
> must be given to The ARES E-Letter and The American
> Radio Relay
> League.
> 
> Editorial questions or comments: Rick Palm, K1CE,
> k1ce@arrl.net
\


		
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From ham557 at yahoo.com  Wed Sep  7 00:34:00 2005
From: ham557 at yahoo.com (Lowell S.)
Date: Wed Sep  7 00:39:37 2005
Subject: [Adrian ARC] W Michigan traffic net
Message-ID: <20050907043400.32821.qmail@web31710.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

relay by kc8jjt

FYI 
To All Hams


All, please note the West Michigan Traffic Net is
moving full time 
Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday to the Link
System repeaters.    This 
will allow for better coverage of the state.   We need
Net Control 
Stations and other stations to Check in to take
traffic.   

Each county within the Link System Coverage should
have a station to 
represent there county and pass or take traffic as
needed for areas 
within there county. 

Please Check in and let them know where you are from. 

For Reference here is the IRA link system Web Page
which also has a 
list of the link frequencies. 

http://www.w8hvg.org/

Thank you to the IRA group and to all who participate

Jeff Nawrot / Joe Bell WMTN








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