[ARRL-OK] SATURDAY is the 2012 ARES-Oklahoma SET - SAT OCT 6, 2012

[Mark Conklin]

SATURDAY October 6, 2012 is this year's ARES-Oklahoma Simulated Emergency Test (SET).

Attached you will find a .pdf file which is the plan for the 2012 ARES-Oklahoma Simulated Emergency Test (SET).

Or download the SET plan from this link:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aresoklahoma/files/2012%20ARES-Oklahoma%20Simulated%20Emergency%20Test%20_SET_.pdf

 

Good Luck and have fun during this years SET.

Thanks & 73,


Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO

www.ARESOK.org

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2012 ARES-Oklahoma Simulated Emergency Test (SET)
Date  October 6, 2012 - Saturday
Times  County and District activity should not begin before at 0900L and should conclude all County and District activity by 1200L. If an EC or DEC wishes to extend the exercise past 1200L, that is their call. 
Status reporting via HF will start on 1300L finished by 1400L time. 

Purpose of SET
 
To find out the strengths and weaknesses of; ARES, NTS, and other groups in providing emergency communications here in Oklahoma. 
To provide a public demonstration--to served agencies such as the American Red Cross, emergency management agencies and through the news media--of the value to the public that Amateur Radio provides, particularly in time of need. 
  
To help radio amateurs gain experience in communications using standard procedures and a variety of modes under simulated-emergency conditions. 

Focus
Most of the population and the bulk of the available radio amateurs live along the Interstate-44 corridor (I-44). The majority of radio amateurs are in or near the two large metropolitan areas of Oklahoma City and Tulsa.  Groups will be encouraged to participate as combined District level response.  Zone 3 and Zone 5, may have the Districts with in the Zone participate together as a Zone response.
In Districts where NO DEC is currently appointed, local leaders should contact their ZEC and discuss appointing a DEC for SET, and work with your ZEC to find a DEC for your Districts.

Scenario for the 2012 SET
An straight line wind event has paralyzed ONE of the counties in your District. Wind speeds exceeded 85 MPH and has causes many trees, branches and power lines to fail. Estimates are between 75 to 100 percent of homes in the effected county is without power. Many roads are impassible. Communications infrastructure has also suffered. Downed wires, power outages, bent antennas, and failed back-ups have crippled normal communications. Amateur Radio operators have not gone undamaged. Repeaters that are not on back-up power are not functioning.  Many large antennas systems are down or damages. Served agencies in the effected county have requested communications support from ARES-OK. To meet this it will require a combined response for your entire ARES-OK District.  Log into http://www.aresok.org/ and select State Wide Breakdown for current District map.
What’s working in this scenario? 
VHF/UHF Simplex 
Limited Repeaters. (Repeater with back-up power may be use at DEC’s discretion.) Limited Internet. (Internet may be use at the discretion of the DEC.) 
HF with NVIS type antenna systems 
Our ingenuity 

Operations Guidelines and Goals
1. Simplex should be used wherever possible. 
2. Traffic can be passed between fixed and mobile stations if needed. 
3. All traffic MUST be preceded by “THIS IS ONLY A EXERCISE” 
4. The Scenario notes that roads may be impassable. Therefore, movement of mobile stations may be limited by the DEC. It may be necessary to assign other than usual operators to locations such as county EOCs, or other served agencies. 
5. All stations are encouraged to use their emergency power source and set up emergency antennas if possible. If it’s something you’d expect to do during a real EMCOMM response, no better time than now to test it out. 
7. Send local tactical message traffic on behalf of local served agency. (DECs to create their own mock messages).
8. Creative “thinking outside the box” is encouraged to circumvent the rules (provided it’s legal!) 
9. At the end of the day send each DEC shall send a status report to the NCS on the Statewide HF Nets beginning at 1300L.  (See format for status report at end of the document.) 
10. Each Radio Operator and ALL Communications shall be noted/logged on the applicable ICS form(s).   See: http://garlandr.s412.sureserver.com/graces/icsforms.html
11. Participants shall wear their ARES approved Deployment Vest.  Don’t have a vest yet? Please see http://www.aresok.org/ on the left side of the page - click on Other Resources and scroll down to ARES-OK Gear.
12. Don’t forget, let’s have some fun with this! 

Local Net(s) during Annual SET
The selection of VHF/UHF simplex frequencies will be at the discretion of the DEC. 
DEC shall note All operating frequencies on an ICS form 205 Communication plan. http://garlandr.s412.sureserver.com/graces/icsforms.html 
Repeaters (with back-up power) may be use at the discretion of the DEC.
Frequency/repeater selection should follow County Resources list (as noted on http://www.aresok.org/ by your ECs and DECs).  IF INFORMATION IS NOT CURRENT ON http://www.aresok.org/ please take steps to up date the information. Need help with this contact ARES-OK Webmaster Roland Stolfa, KC5UNL via e-mail rstolfa at yahoo.com 

Statewide HF Nets during Annual SET 
The Oklahoma Section Statewide HF ARES Nets will ONLY be active during the annual Simulated Emergency Test scheduled for October 6, 2011 during 1300L to 1400L. This is for the purpose of status reporting and/or forwarding messages over longer distances than can be handled on local VHF and UHF nets, and to give increased exposure to ARES throughout the state and to encourage ARES membership and activity through a high level of visibility.. 
The Statewide HF ARES Nets  will NOT be active in support the SET until 1300L
Statewide HF Nets will be at the direction of the Section Traffic Manager. 
With a net schedule of:
 
Beginning at 1300L ARES-OK HF Net will be at:  
7260KHz  Lower Sideband Phone (+/- QRM) 
   
If conditions require the alternate frequency will be at:
3900KHz  Lower Sideband Phone (+/- QRM) 
   
This will be a controlled net. STM will select Net Control Stations for each net session. 

Documentation
All traffic REQUIRES proper documentation.
Each Radio Operator shall track their activity on an ICS-214 Unit Log.
See: http://garlandr.s412.sureserver.com/graces/icsforms.html
ALL Communications traffic shall be noted/logged on an ICS-309 Communication Log.
See: http://garlandr.s412.sureserver.com/graces/icsforms.html
Formal message traffic should be written to insure proper handling of the message. To better interface with our served agencies ARES-OK will work toward transitioning to the NIMS message form ISC-213. The ISC-213 form may be downloaded from http://garlandr.s412.sureserver.com/graces/icsforms.html and reproduced as necessary.  However the ARRL Radiogram maybe still be used and can downloaded from  http://www.arrl-al.org/RADIOGRM.pdf  and can also be reproduced as needed. It is critical to establishing maintain the paper trail. 

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Status reporting VIA statewide HF net.
At the end of the SET each DEC shall send a status report to the NCS on the Oklahoma Section Statewide HF ARES Net.
For status reporting the following schedule will be in effect: 
Beginning at 1300L ARES-OK HF Net will be at:  
7260KHz  Lower Sideband Phone (+/- QRM) 
   
If conditions require the alternate frequency will be at:
3900KHz  Lower Sideband Phone (+/- QRM) 
   
This will be a controlled net. STM will select Net Control Stations for each net session. 
The status report message format will be short:
Zone Number and District Number reporting (See ARESOK.org): 
DEC in charge of local SET: (Name, Call)
Call Signs of all EC’s participating in your District. 
Local Start Time – local End Time
Local Freq(s). of Net(s):   (Can be more than one.)
Number of TACTICAL traffic handled:
Number of FORMAL written traffic handled:
Number of participants:
Any comments: 

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