[CALV-ARES] From CALV EC: FW: [MDC-EC] PRGE Training Exercise

[Dennis N3QHC]

I received the email below from PRGE EC tonight (1/25/12), Jim
Montgomery/WB3KAS.  I have not decided if I will go or not but perhaps some
of you may want to attend this event.  PRGE EOC is not far away, maybe
35-minutes from northern Calvert.  If you attend you will meet a good bunch
of hams!
73, Dennis

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From: mdc-ec-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mdc-ec-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Jim Montgomery
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:12 PM
To: mdc-ares at mailman.qth.net; mdc-ec at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [MDC-EC] PRGE Training Exercise





To All MDC Section Emergency Coordinators, AECs and ARES members:
 
PRGE ARES has recently decided to enter the Winter Field Day, sponsored by
The Society for the Preservation of Amateur Radio (SPAR), as an official
training exercise for us.  We will be operating the full 24-hr duration.
 
(see  http://www.spar-hams.org/contests/winterfd/index.php)
 
It starts Saturday at noon through Sunday noon.  PRGE ARES will be operating
from the County's EOC, 6820 Webster St, Landover, MD, the same location some
of you joined us in support of the Obama Inauguration three years ago.
 
Depending on the results of the general election in the Fall, there could be
another inauguration event.  We were very fortunate that nothing happened
during the previous inauguration.  However, we never seem to find time to
really be ready and train for the 'biggy.' Here is an opportunity for you.
 
If we find that we have been asked to support an inauguration in 2013 and
find it necessary to call on you for help, here is your opportunity.  I
invite you to come to our EOC this Saturday just to renew acquaintances,
review directions to the EOC, meet the EC, AECs and PRGE members and operate
if you'd like.

Some of you may be saying, why not have us in the Fall.  Well, this time of
year would be as close to realism as we think we could make it.  Number one,
January is the inauguration month and it is now January.  Make it
weather-real.  Second, there will be lots of local busy comms at the ready
all over the Metro area during the inauguration just like last time.  A FD
environment this weekend is not exactly a calm one.  Third, this is a short
notice event.  Ever hear of a scheduled disaster??!!  Me neither.
Realistic?  Well, maybe. . .maybe not, but a good time to practice.
 
This is an open invitation to join us. Plenty of parking out back.  Arrive
just before noon and join us for lunch in the "departure lounge."  I or the
RO will give you the $0.25 tour of the EOC.  Stay as long as you'd like and
get to know us, as much as we'd like to get to know our brothers and sisters
in EmComm.  We plan to put the word out to our county officials and invite
them as well.  A good attendance by you would bring a good showing for
'mutual aid' from our neighboring counties.  Wear your call sign badges.
 
I guarantee it will be fun and informative for all of us.
 
Talk in will be on the 145.23 (-) pl 110.9 repeater located on top of
Doctors Community Hospital, Lanham, MD, one of our served agencies in the
County Health Care Coalition.
 
>From all of us in PRGE ARES, 
 
tnx es 73, de
 
Jim Montgomery
WB3KAS
PRGE EC


Some of you may be saying, why not have us in the Fall.  Well, this time of
year would be as close to realism as we think we could make it.  Number one,
January is the inauguration month and it is now January.  Make it
weather-real.  Second, there will be lots of local busy comms at the ready
all over the Metro area during the inauguration just like last time.  A FD
environment this weekend is not exactly a calm one.  Third, this is a short
notice event.  Ever hear of a scheduled disaster??!!  Me neither.
Realistic?  Well, maybe. . .maybe not, but a good time to practice.
 
This is an open invitation to join us. Plenty of parking out back.  Arrive
just before noon and join us for lunch in the "departure lounge."  I or the
RO will give you the $0.25 tour of the EOC.  Stay as long as you'd like and
get to know us, as much as we'd like to get to know our brothers and sisters
in EmComm.  We plan to put the word out to our county officials and invite
them as well.  A good attendance by you would bring a good showing for
'mutual aid' from our neighboring counties.  Wear your call sign badges.
 
I guarantee it will be fun and informative for all of us.
 
Talk in will be on the 145.23 (-) pl 110.9 repeater located on top of
Doctors Community Hospital, Lanham, MD, one of our served agencies in the
County Health Care Coalition.
 
>From all of us in PRGE ARES, 
 
tnx es 73, de
 
Jim Montgomery
WB3KAS
PRGE EC


 
PRGE ARES has recently decided to enter the Winter Field Day, sponsored by
The Society for the Preservation of Amateur Radio (SPAR), as an official
training exercise for us.  We will be operating the full 24-hr duration.
 
(see  http://www.spar-hams.org/contests/winterfd/index.php)
 
It starts Saturday at noon through Sunday noon.  PRGE ARES will be operating
from the County's EOC, 6820 Webster St, Landover, MD, the same location some
of you joined us in support of the Obama Inauguration three years ago.
 
Depending on the results of the general election in the Fall, there could be
another inauguration event.  We were very fortunate that nothing happened
during the previous inauguration.  However, we never seem to find time to
really be ready and train for the 'biggy.' Here is an opportunity for you.
 
If we find that we have been asked to support an inauguration in 2013 and
find it necessary to call on you for help, here is your opportunity.  I
invite you to come to our EOC this Saturday just to renew acquaintances,
review directions to the EOC, meet the EC, AECs and PRGE members and operate
if you'd like.

Some of you may be saying, why not have us in the Fall.  Well, this time of
year would be as close to realism as we think we could make it.  Number one,
January is the inauguration month and it is now January.  Make it
weather-real.  Second, there will be lots of local busy comms at the ready
all over the Metro area during the inauguration just like last time.  A FD
environment this weekend is not exactly a calm one.  Third, this is a short
notice event.  Ever hear of a scheduled disaster??!!  Me neither.
Realistic?  Well, maybe. . .maybe not, but a good time to practice.
 
This is an open invitation to join us. Plenty of parking out back.  Arrive
just before noon and join us for lunch in the "departure lounge."  I or the
RO will give you the $0.25 tour of the EOC.  Stay as long as you'd like and
get to know us, as much as we'd like to get to know our brothers and sisters
in EmComm.  We plan to put the word out to our county officials and invite
them as well.  A good attendance by you would bring a good showing for
'mutual aid' from our neighboring counties.  Wear your call sign badges.
 
I guarantee it will be fun and informative for all of us.
 
Talk in will be on the 145.23 (-) pl 110.9 repeater located on top of
Doctors Community Hospital, Lanham, MD, one of our served agencies in the
County Health Care Coalition.
 
>From all of us in PRGE ARES, 
 
tnx es 73, de
 
Jim Montgomery
WB3KAS
PRGE EC


Some of you may be saying, why not have us in the Fall.  Well, this time of
year would be as close to realism as we think we could make it.  Number one,
January is the inauguration month and it is now January.  Make it
weather-real.  Second, there will be lots of local busy comms at the ready
all over the Metro area during the inauguration just like last time.  A FD
environment this weekend is not exactly a calm one.  Third, this is a short
notice event.  Ever hear of a scheduled disaster??!!  Me neither.
Realistic?  Well, maybe. . .maybe not, but a good time to practice.
 
This is an open invitation to join us. Plenty of parking out back.  Arrive
just before noon and join us for lunch in the "departure lounge."  I or the
RO will give you the $0.25 tour of the EOC.  Stay as long as you'd like and
get to know us, as much as we'd like to get to know our brothers and sisters
in EmComm.  We plan to put the word out to our county officials and invite
them as well.  A good attendance by you would bring a good showing for
'mutual aid' from our neighboring counties.  Wear your call sign badges.
 
I guarantee it will be fun and informative for all of us.
 
Talk in will be on the 145.23 (-) pl 110.9 repeater located on top of
Doctors Community Hospital, Lanham, MD, one of our served agencies in the
County Health Care Coalition.
 
>From all of us in PRGE ARES, 
 
tnx es 73, de
 
Jim Montgomery
WB3KAS
PRGE EC




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