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http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/ares-el/?issue=2014-10-15October 15,2014Editor: Rick Palm, K1CEARES E-Letter ArchiveARES HomeARRL HomePage  |
| In This Issue:    
   - Communications in MajorSeismic Incidents in Central US Subject of Exercise; Report Cites Winklink,Amateur Radio
   - Boulder County (Colorado) ARES Noted on Sheriff'sOffice Facebook Page
   - Letters: ARES Groups and Individuals Should ProtectPasswords
   - Med Emergency in Washington's High MountainForest
   - Late October Exercise to Test MARS-ARESInteroperability
   - ARES Group Preps for Public Event with EmergencyExercise in Washington State
   - Denver CERT Volunteer Receives FEMA HonorableMention as Community Preparedness Hero
   - Indiana ARES/RACES Active in National PreparednessMonth
   - National Community/Neighborhood Exercise Series
Communications inMajor Seismic Incidents in Central US Subject of Exercise; Report CitesWinklink, Amateur RadioThe Central United StatesEarthquake Consortium (CUSEC) was formed in 1983, and has received fundingsupport from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FEMA. The NewMadrid Fault is a regional threat with national implications. CUSEC MemberStates are those most vulnerable to the effects of earthquakes in the region:Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, andTennessee. Its CAPSTONE-14 initiative was a three-year, multi-state scopeof planning and preparedness activities culminating in a major, multi-stateearthquake Exercise in June, 2014.In its after-actionreport, in a section on Communications, CUSEC recognized that a majorearthquake situation could cut off conventional means of communication, and hasemphasized the need for effective alternative communication technologiesand capabilities for use when normal ones go down. Partners must be able tocommunicate with emergency operations centers and field locations forsecurity, situational awareness and operational progress.Thereport cited satellite communications as an alternate service, but notedthey were costly to acquire and sometimes difficult and challenging tooperate. "Other means of alternate communications include the National WarningSystem (NAWAS), and Amateur Radio (ham radio) operations," the report said,and referred to FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate's July comments on theresiliency and value of Amateur Radio. A "critical task" of the CAPSTONE-14initiative was identified: "Utilize Amateur Radio assets to establishcommunications with local, state, federal and private sector partners."One of the report recommendations was to "establish standards forvarious electronic resource request forms that meet the file sizelimitations of email and amateur band radio capabilities." The report noted thatduring CAPSTONE-14, states "initiated interstate communications utilizingRadio Amateur Civil Emergency Services (RACES) and successfully communicatedvia voice (audible communications), chat (text communications) and RMSExpress/Winlink radio email system (email communications)." And "Winlinkcommunications ultimately proved as a successful means to share . . . requestforms," even though initial attempts were unsuccessful, due to file size.Operators implemented file size and compatibility/standardization fixes andinitial problems were solved. The report concluded that "Regularly scheduledtraining and functional exercises conducted by RACES and MARS operators willimprove speed and understanding during real world emergency operations."Click here for the complete report.Winlink Administrator Steve Waterman, K4CJX, said "the lesson learned isalways the same: essential is training by exercising the systems to be used inan earthquake disaster scenario." And, "this is why civil authorities arenow incorporating Amateur Radio volunteers to assist with alternatecommunications methodologies, especially Winlink, and why MARS support of civilauthorities is so important." Waterman added "Winlink 2000 is becoming morefamiliar to our civil authorities, and thus providing an opportunity forbuilding strong relationships between these organizations and Amateur Radiovolunteers. The rest of the story is up to us." - Thanks to SteveWaterman, K4CJX, Winlink Development Team[The New MadridSeismic Zone (NMSZ) is responsible for three of the largest earthquakes inU.S. history, during 1811-12. These quakes were felt strongly over 50,000square miles and moderately across 1 million square miles, according to theU.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The affected area was therefore more thantwice that of the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake, the largest earthquake inU.S. history, and approximately 10 times that of the 1906 San FranciscoEarthquake. Although it has been more than two centuries since the last majorearthquake along the NMSZ, the threat of a catastrophic earthquake in theregion has not waned. Due to population density and current infrastructure, asimilar earthquake today would be devastating.- excerpted from thereport].TopBoulder County (Colorado) ARES Noted on Sheriff'sOffice Facebook PageJack Ciaccia, WMØG,ARRL Colorado Section Manager, informed the ARES E-Letter of two postings of the Boulder County Sheriff'sOffice to its Facebook page, reflecting the agency's value it placeson the ARES group's support:"Public safety is acooperative effort that requires planning, training, and thoughtful resourcemanagement on many levels. We collaborate with many partner agencies such asfire protection districts, rescue groups and BCARES [Boulder County ARES] toprovide the best in public service for Boulder County. Many partner agenciesrely on volunteers willing to devote their resources to training, andevent deployment. BCARES is a volunteer organization of licensed amateur radiooperators that we can call upon for assistance. For more information onthis volunteer organization visit: www.bouldercountyares.org.""Scott Whitehead [KA0QPT] of the Boulder County Sheriff's Office received aPublic Service Communication Commendation from the American Radio RelayLeague in recognition of his meritorious service in providing aid to an injuredhiker July 21, 2014. The award was presented today by Jack Ciaccia, PIOfor BCARES, the local ARRL organization. Scott heard an incoming dispatchcall from a Colorado Springs area Ham operator relaying information on aninjured party in a remote location. Scott has been a Ham operator since 1983.He used his knowledge of area radio repeaters to make radio contact with theHam operator with the injured party, and guided rescue workers to theirlocation. Great job Scott!"TopLetters: ARES Groupsand Individuals Should Protect PasswordsThe ARRLreleased a news article recently concerning the hacking of a server in theLeague's network late last month. That article can be found here. My professional background is in digital forensicinvestigations and includes teaching in the Digital Forensics and Cyber Security programat Valencia College in Orlando (Florida) so I'd like to make some cybersecurity suggestions to readers.If your password on arrl.org hasn't been changedsince before early 2010, you need to change it now. If your password isnewer than early 2010, I'd recommend that it be changed as a precautionarymeasure. If you've utilized the same password on arrl.org and other websites, especially if those otherwebsites are banking and finance related, you
 need to change thepasswords on those sites as well.Hackers will usepasswords from one compromised website to attempt to access the person's accountson other websites. Ideally each website that you access should have aunique password; likewise, each email account you have should have a uniquepassword.
 Passwords should be made up of a combination of upper caseletters, lower case letters, numbers, and symbols including:!@#$%^&*()_+=-.?<>,. (note: not all websites will accept all of those symbols in apassword). Passwords should not be such easily guessed
 things as thenames of relatives and pets. The best passwords are random strings ratherthan names and words and should be 8 characters or longer.Now the question that this immediately generates is how do I rememberdozens or hundreds of random passwords? The answer is that you don't; you onlyneed to memorize one that is a master password used by software thatsecures all of the information for all of your email/website accounts. There aremany such programs available, both paid and free, that can securely protectyour passwords on your home computer, your mobile devices such assmartphones and tablets, and on a flash drive so you can have them availablewherever you are.Because everyone's needs are different, Iwon't advise using any particular solution. I will, however, give you anexample of a free solution for PCs that has also been ported to most otherplatforms. The software is named "Password Safe" and is available at no costfrom: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ (click on the "Download latestversion" found on that page to access the program itself).
http://pwsafe.org/relatedprojects.shtml has information on ports of
 Password Safe toother platforms. Again this is not an endorsement of
 this program, justan example of what is available.One of the Motions Iprepared for the July 2014 ARRL Board Meeting was for the creation of an ITStrategic Planning Committee. The committee would be tasked with examiningthe existing Information Technology operations of the League and creatinga strategic plan for addressing current and future needs. The committeewould be composed of Directors and Vice Directors having a current backgroundin Information Technology. An edited Motion was passed, directing theAdministration and Finance Committee of the Board to study establishing the ITStrategic Planning Committee and provide recommendations to the Board at theJanuary 2015 meeting. I'll report back when I know more. -- ARRLSoutheastern Division Director Doug Rehman, K4AC, k4ac at arrl.orgTopMed Emergency inWashington's High Mountain ForestOn the lastSunday of summer--another beautiful, cloudless day at the site high in thecentral Cascade Mountains of Washington state--two hams had just fired uptheir station to prepare for a second day of contest operation in theWashington State QSO Party, better known as the Salmon Run.About 0845, a motorcyclist rode into the remote camp. He told them that hisfriend had broken a leg in an accident just a short distance up the unpavedForest Service road. He asked if the campers would please use their cellphones to call an ambulance. The hams explained that, unfortunately, they'dalready checked and had no cellular service available at the site. They toldhim they did have ham radio communications, and would be able to get helpthrough that service. The biker thanked them and rode back to his injuredfriend.The contest team -- Robert Grinnell, KD7WNV andTim Kane, K7ANE -- are both residents of the Seattle area, and members of theMike & Key ARC. After three years of contesting together on the westernside of the state, this was their first contest "expedition" on the easternside of the mountains, where they'd situated their station on ascore-doubling county line.At the moment the rider approachedthem, Tim had selected a spot on 20 meters near the suggested contest frequencyand was ensuring proper operation and tuning of the station. Robert wasassembling a new tri-band yagi that they hoped to use later that day.They quickly considered how best to obtain help. While the HFstation was already in operation and chances were good that they would beable to contact someone somewhere, they knew that 9-1-1 systems arelocalized, and a distant party might have difficulty reaching the rightagency. A local contact in one of the two counties could just dial 9-1-1directly. They had VHF/UHF rigs in their trucks, but being from out of the area,did not have any local repeaters programmed. Robert had a few-years-oldcopy of the ARRL Repeater Directory along, but some listings would bearchaic. That limitation, compounded with the time it would take to programeach repeater, and the doubtful chances that someone would be using ormonitoring a repeater at that time on a Sunday morning, did not bode well forquickly making a local contact.They decided that Timwould stay on HF, and Robert would try for a local contact. After a quickcheck of the 75 and 40 meter bands, both of which were fairly quiet, Timfound the SOARA (South Orange ARA, Mission Viejo, California) net operating on7200 kHz. He considered using "Mayday" or "Pan" emergency calls, butdecided that "Break Break Break with a Medical Emergency" would be more readilyunderstood.After two calls, Louis Frank, KG6FCT,responded, and Tim had him move up 3 kHz, away from the net operation. Louis wasat his home, east of Sacramento, California. Tim explained the situation,and Robert passed along detailed location information. They asked Louis totelephone the Washington State Patrol, or a sheriff for either of the twocounties, and request that an ambulance be dispatched.With contact made and the process underway via HF, Robert ceased efforts at alocal contact, and they decided he should drive up to the accident scene,about a quarter mile distant. They quickly chose a 2 meter simplexfrequency on which to maintain communications between them, with Robert on hismobile rig and Tim with an HT at the campsite.Louis firsttried his area 9-1-1 dispatcher, who said he couldn't transfer the call tothe out-of-state jurisdictions. He then tried the 4-1-1 informationoperator, but only got administrative numbers that didn't answer on a Sundaymorning, and just referred the caller to 9-1-1 for emergencies.Tim continued monitoring the HF frequency. Having not heard theirearlier communications, a Washington state contest station began calling CQ justone kHz up from where they were standing by, and was bleeding over badly.Tm contacted him, explained the situation, and asked him to please move upband a bit. In the best ham tradition, the station immediately agreed andmoved.Upon reaching the accident scene, Robert wasinformed that one of the bikers had managed to get one bar of signal on hiscell phone, and had advised the victim's wife back in the Seattle area of theaccident. She, too, was now working on getting medical help.Through his persistence, Louis finally obtained a number for theKittitas County Sheriff's Office (KCSO), which was answered, and he relayed thesituation and request. As fate would have it, the victim's wife was onanother line with the dispatch center, having just gotten through as well.The KCSO dispatcher asked Louis for additional informationabout the accident, the victim, and whether the ambulance would need to befour-wheel-drive to reach the accident scene. Louis relayed the queries toTim, who in turn asked Robert at the accident scene. They then passed theresponses back to the dispatcher, and told them that 4WD was not needed.The victim was in pain but his condition otherwise did not seem serious.Once KCSO advised that the ambulance was en route, Louis,Tim and Robert maintained the frequencies, in case further action wasrequired or information needed to be passed.Robert suggestedto the motorcyclists that one of them ride down the dirt road to thehighway, wait for the ambulance, and lead it to the accident scene, which theydid.About thirty minutes later an aid car from theKittitas Valley Fire and Rescue Department drove by the camp to the accidentscene. It was followed by a USFS brush fire truck and a Sheriff's cruiser.Tenminutes later a second Kittitas aid car also arrived.At the accident scene the Emergency Medical Techs assessed the rider'sinjuries, stabilized his broken leg, and administered an IV. They transferredhim to a gurney and into the ambulance. The emergency response vehicles thenstarted their return to the hospital, some forty miles away. Themotorcyclist who originally approached the hams came by the camp, and thanked themfor their help.By 0940, barely an hour since itstarted, all was back to normal. Tim passed the info and thanks back to Louis incentral California. He returned to his SoCal net, while the Washington teamreturned to 20 meters and started chasing Qs for the contest. -- TimKane, K7ANE, and Robert Grinnell, KD7WNVTopLate October Exercise to Test MARS-ARES InteroperabilityUS Army and Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio Service (MARS)stations will participate in a 48-hour nationwide contingency communicationexercise on October 27 and 28 as part of an effort to develop greatercooperation between the Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored MARS program and theAmateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES). MARS is encouraging its members todiscuss communication interoperability in advance of the exercise withtheir ARES section and district or local emergency coordinators."This communications exercise is sponsored by the DoD to provide MARSoperators the opportunity to develop and train interoperability procedureswith their state/local ARES emergency coordinators and their Amateur Radiocolleagues," explained Army MARS Program Manager Paul English, WD8DBY. Hetold ARRL that the DoD/MARS exercise has "full participation" from Army andAir Force MARS, and that he anticipates that some individual Navy MARSmembers may participate as well.The plan calls for MARSmembers, using their Amateur Radio call signs and operating on amateurfrequencies, to establish two-way communication with ARES leadership or membersin as many US counties as possible by using VHF/UHF simplex channels orlocal repeaters or near vertical incidence skywave (NVIS) propagation on HF."The contact can be with any amateur in the county, if an ARES member orleader is not available," English added."Ultimately wewould like the MARS operator to join an existing ARES net, if one isoperational during the exercise," English said. If no net is available, MARSmembers should come up on local repeaters or check into HF traffic nets to seewhat amateurs are available and to determine their counties. "We want to useexisting net times and frequencies to the extent possible," Englishcontinued. "Any mode of operation is fine."Only oneARES/Amateur Radio contact per county is needed, but more are okay. The contact mustbe person to person and cannot rely on Internet-linked repeaters, Internetconnectivity systems, or store-and-forward e-mail systems, such as Winlink, Englishsaid.The information exchange requested from ARES foreach county is the county name and the county Federal InformationProcessing Standards (FIPS) code, if available.Thereare two preferred windows of opportunity to conduct the interoperabilityexercise. These are from 1201 to 1800 UTC on October 27, and from 0001 to0600 UTC on October 28.Contact Paul English, WD8DBY, for moreinformation. - Thanks to the ARRL LetterTopARESGroup Preps for Public Event with Emergency Exercise in WashingtonStateAmateur Radio operators on the Olympic Peninsulaof Washington State encounter unique situations and terrain that we areexpected to overcome in times of emergency. To prepare for such times theClallam County ARES seeks opportunities to participate in community activitiesthat allow us to deploy and communicate in support as practice andpreparedness. We were given such an opportunity when a member of the North OlympicRunning Club approached us about an inaugural trail marathon called theGreat Olympic Adventure Trail Marathon (The GOAT), to be run the first week ofSeptember 2014. Our Training Coordinator, Kathleen Reiter, N1ERT was put incontact with the marathon organizer Lorrie Mittmann who provided anoutline of the event, and her concerns about lack of cell phone coverage, andhence reliable safety and security communications.TheARES Advisory Group was presented with the proposal and with
| Operations Tentat Lake Crescent. (Seated L to R. Bill Carter, W7WEC; Dave Hannon, KE7TTT;Valerie Hannon, KF7VAL. Standing: Kathleen Reiter, N1ERT.) (photo courtesyKD7WBM) |

their approval, aplan for our participation was presented to the ARES members at the monthlytraining meeting. To expand knowledge of the area and as a dry run for theevent, the Clallam County ARES participation in the Washington StateEmergency Department's statewide Fifth Saturday Exercise on August 30 became atactical field exercise for us. Since our ARES operates under the auspices ofClallam County Emergency Management we were assigned Mission Numbers forboth the exercise and the event. Information concerning road conditions,hazards and communications status were to be provided to them in the AfterAction reports.The local scenario was a wild-land fireresponse near the town of Joyce, Washington. Deployment would involve sometricky driving on logging roads as well as overcoming the usual terrainobstructions. Although some reconnaissance of the area had been accomplishedprior to the exercise, road and weather conditions had changed.The exercise began with members contacting the Resources Net forcheck-in. They proceeded to a Staging Area at the Crescent School in Joyce,where they received their instructions and safety briefing for deployment. TheIC was the Emergency Coordinator, Bill Carter, W7WEC. Assignments and mapswere issued to the two person teams and Operations took control of theexercise from Resources. The teams were then dispatched to their respectivelocations.Upon reporting their arrivals at theirlocations teams awaited net roll calls on repeater and simplex channels. WhenOperations found that they could not maintain contact with all of the deployedelements from the Incident Command Post, control was passed to the onlystation that could. The teams assessed road conditions, and reported locationsand signal strengths to the net. All then returned to the Staging Area forthe hot wash and were released to the Resources Net Control for finalcheck-out.Our findings were reported to the marathon eventcoordinator and necessary changes were made in planning for the event.For the marathon, after contacting Resources, ARESpersonnel deployed directly to the locations they had manned during the exercise.David, KE7TTT and Valerie, KF7VAL Hannon opened the Operations Net toreceive check-ins as members arrived on location. ARES members manned the Startlocations, the Finish Line and all critical points along the trail wherecell phone communications were impossible because of terrain. Aside fromminor glitches, radio communications ran smoothly the entire day.ARES members and the Amateur Radio community at large don't alwaysrecognize how positively the general public reacts to our presence. Duringthe race, the runners expressed appreciation for our efforts in support oftheir activity. ARES members were readily identifiable with communicationsvests and radios, and our willingness to serve and demonstratedprofessionalism was not lost on event organizers. ARES was able to practice and becomefamiliar with our unique geography and we feel confident that we will beasked to assist with similar events in the future. It is a "Win-Win" for bothsides. -- Bruce Reiter, KD7WBMTopDenverCERT Volunteer Receives FEMA Honorable Mention as Community PreparednessHeroA Denver, Colorado, volunteer and radio amateurwith the Citizen Emergency Response Team has received an Honorable Mentionas part of FEMA's 2014 Community Preparedness winners. FEMA announced thewinners as they recognized individuals who have taken action to help preparetheir communities.David E. Cook, KC0MHT, a DenverCERT volunteer since 2008, continues to serve the Denver community as atrainer, facilitator and exercise coordinator. He has helped train more than 4000people over the last several years and has been a volunteer in numerousemergency events and exercises, including the 2013 Colorado floods.David was nominated for, and was awarded an Honorable Mention asa "Community Preparedness Hero.""Strong emergencymanagement requires teamwork, community engagement, innovation and strongrelationships at all levels before disasters occur," FEMA Administrator CraigFugate said. "This year, we recognize individuals and organizations thatexemplify this approach, and I congratulate them on their dedication to makeour nation stronger and safer." Denver is a safer, more prepared community,thanks to David's dedication and expertise in the CERT program. --Denver Office of Emergency Management TopIndiana ARES/RACES Active in National Preparedness MonthSee photo at right: ARES/RACES member Steve Kramer, KF9ZA, holdsone of several ARRL brochures distributed at the Hamilton County EmergencyManagement tent during Public Safety Day at Westfield, Indiana's Village ParkMall on Saturday, September 6.  ARES member and RACES officer MikeAlley, W9MSK (left), among others, promoted Amateur Radio as a valuabledisaster service tool during the 6-hour event that included demonstrations bylocal fire rescue, police, EMS and other support organizations. The groupdemonstrated "off-the-grid" communications using a generator, a local repeaterand simplex and IRLP capabilities, answering questions from the publicdrawn to the parking lot activity from their Saturday shopping. (KJ9M photo).-- Joe March, KJ9M, ARRL Public Information Coordinator, Indiana Section,Kj9m at arrl.netTop National Community/NeighborhoodExercise Series The series of Formidable Footprintexercises for neighborhood, community and faith based organizations continues:October 25 - Solar Storm / January 31 - Flood / February 28 - Wildfire.Exercises have also been scheduled for the following scenarios:Earthquake-Hurricane - Influenza Pandemic - Tornado. The FormidableFootprint exercise series has been developed in accordance with Homeland SecurityExercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) protocols. The objective of theexercise series is for CERTs, Neighborhood Watch Programs, NeighborhoodAssociations, Community / Faith Based Organizations, Citizen Corps, Fire Corps andothers to work as a team to become better prepared for the next disastertheir community may face. There is NO CHARGE for participation in anyof the Formidable Footprint exercises. 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