[BARC-List] Fwd: Monthly Eastern Massachusetts Section News Summary

Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:43:40 -0500

      Just in case you haven't read this yet from elsewhere:

>Date: 18 Nov 2003 22:56:15 -0000
>From: "ARRL Web site" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Monthly Eastern Massachusetts Section News Summary
>
>EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS ARES JOINED FORCES with its counterparts in the western
>portion of the state and with RACES to conduct a unified Simulated Emergency
>Test on November 8, 2003. The exercise began with an announcement from the
>National Weather Service in Taunton:
>
>"THIS IS A DRILL. This is WX1BOX... the National Weather Service in Taunton.
>We have a Winter Storm Warning for interior sections of Southeastern
>Massachusetts. A High Wind Warning is in effect for interior Southeast
>Massachusetts and Cape Cod and the Islands. [Expect] heavy wet snow with
>possible accumulations of 1-2 feet in the Winter Storm Warning area. Also
>expect strong, damaging winds of 40 to 50 mph with gusts to 60-65 MPH. The
>combination of strong gusty winds and heavy snow will cause power outages due
>to trees and power lines being knocked down..."
>
>Station WC1MA at the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency in Framingham
>liaised with Regional MEMA headquarters across the state, and with the ARES
>Metro headquarters station, W1MSA, at the Salvation Army in Boston. Several
>dozen pieces of message traffic were sent and received on HF and VHF.
>Operators at WC1MA included: State RACES Officer Tom Kinahan, N1CPE; RACES
>Operator Dennis Brothers, KE6DPL; Eastern MA Section Emergency Coordinator
>Mike Neilsen, W1MPN; EMA SM Phil Temples, K9HI. "As many as 20 or more
>individual communities across the state opened their local EOCs and simulated
>a response to a winter storm," said Tom Kinahan, N1CPE. "Even though
>Massachusetts has two ARRL sections, communities, ARES groups and individual
>hams from both sections took part in the SKYWARN, ARES and RACES components of
>the drill as though it were a single event--as would happen if it were real."
>
>During the SET an actual incident requiring ARES assistance occurred,
>according to DEC Rob Macedo, KD1CY. "A major gas leak in the Town of
>Bridgewater caused an evacuation of a 3-4 block area." N1FY was already at the
>Town of Bridgewater EOC along with N1XTB. A shelter was opened and another
>amateur was dispatched there.
>
>THE HARVARD WIRELESS CLUB WILL JOIN with a Cambridge public school in filing
>an application for a "Stations in Schools" grant under the League's Amateur
>Radio Education & Technology Program (a.k.a. "Big Project"), according to Mike
>Manafo, K3UOC and Tim McBride, N1QZY.  "The application was authored by Dr.
>Peg LeGendre, Science Mentor Teacher for the Cambridge Public Schools," said
>Manafo, a Harvard alum and former HWC station manager. McBride, who is HWC's
>current station manager, is coordinating efforts on behalf of Harvard Wireless
>Club.
>
>BOSTON ARC MEMBERS WILL OPERATE W1BOS/MQE on December 6th from 9 am to 4 pm on
>20 and two meters from the Blue Hills Observatory in observance of SKYWARN
>Recognition Day. According to Mark Duff, BARC Executive Committee member and
>ARES DEC, "For several decades, hams have assisted the National Weather
>Service by providing real-time reports of severe weather and storm conditions.
>Many NWS Offices including NWS Taunton have permanently installed Amateur
>Radio Equipment. To celebrate SKYWARN, Amateur Radio operators will set up
>radio stations at the National Weather Service (NWS) offices and other weather
>related locations and contact similar stations around the world."
>
>THE STURDY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ARC WILL OPERATE W1S Nov. 19-23 from the W1SMH
>Club Radio Room to celebrate their 25th Anniversary as an Amateur Radio Club.
>See http://www.w1smh.com for the details.
>
>BE SURE TO CHECK OUT this month's EMA ARRL Web poll at http://ema.arrl.org.
>The poll is located in the upper right-hand column. The poll asks your
>impressions about the League's on-line Emergency Communications Courses. 73 de
>K9HI.
>
>
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>ARRL Eastern Massachusetts Section
>Section Manager: Phillip Temples, K9HI
>[email protected]
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