[CALV-ARES] Fwd: Simulated Emergency Test this Saturday. Oct 5

Fri Oct 4 19:48:05 EDT 2013

Just a heads up.  There's a real storm brewing down south.

State of Emergency in Gulf Coast States
October 4, 2013
In preparation for Tropical Storm Karen, the Governors of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida have issued a State of Emergency in parts of those states. Emergency refill procedures are in place through November 2, 2013.
For more information, including the affected counties, visit: www.tricare.mil/DisasterInfo/DisasterAlerts/10_4_13_TopicalStormKaren.

KB3RAN
David Hardy
davehardy0101 at aol.com

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From: N3AE <n3ae at comcast.net>
To: Calvert County, MD ARES <calv-ares at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: enoell <enoell at verizon.net>
Sent: Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:44 pm
Subject: Re: [CALV-ARES] Fwd: Simulated Emergency Test this Saturday. Oct 5

Oops,

Fat fingered the EOC activation time for tomorrow's part of the drill.  It's 0700 local, NOT 0800 local.

Shawn

From: "N3AE" <n3ae at comcast.net>
To: "ARES Reflector" <calv-ares at mailman.qth.net>, enoell at verizon.net
Sent: Friday, October 4, 2013 5:40:09 PM
Subject: [CALV-ARES] Fwd: Simulated Emergency Test this Saturday. Oct 5

Calvert ARES members,

See revised time line further down in this email.  Not too much activity Friday evening other than alerting your EC about your availability.  

We've basically answered that question for the responses I got to my email earlier this week and at the meeting last night.  But if you want to respond to the SEC's request by emailing me again or calling me on the 146.985 repeater, that would be fine.

The email below states that SET will run from 0600 to 1600 local tomorrow, Saturday, and we will be asked to activate out EOC (played by Bill, N3XMZ) at 0800 Saturday.

Bob, N3PPH, will be checking in to the Maryland Emergency Phone net on 3.820MHz this evening and tomorrow morning, but if you have HF capability, you're encouraged to listen in.

We'll still probably run through the callout tree phone list this evening at a reasonable hour just to try it out and alert folks to the drill activation tomorrow.

73

Shawn - N3AE

From: "ARRL Members Only Web site" <memberlist at www.arrl.org>
To: n3ae at comcast.net
Sent: Friday, October 4, 2013 4:16:34 PM
Subject: Simulated Emergency Test this Saturday. Oct 5

Below is information from Section Emergency Coordinator Jim Montgomery,
WB3KAS, about the annual Simulated Emergency Test that the ARRL MDC
Section will be conducting this year.  In the event of an actual
disaster, it is possible that we will use this section-wide email
method to alert the membership about critical information.  There is a
provision for us to post an alert on the ARRL MDC Section website.  I
urge you to follow this link
<http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/maryland-dc>; to the Alert Notice and
bookmark it.  In the event of a disaster we will post vital information
on it.  We have posted this so you can see how it works.

If you feel that involvement in emergency communications training will
be beneficial for you, your family and your community, you may find the
ARRL Emergency Coordinator and/or RACES Officer in your county by
following this link <http://www.arrl-mdc.net/MDC_EC_RO.htm>;.  With only
about a 6% participation rate for helping with emergency communications
nationally and within this section, we sure could use some help.

73, Jim Cross WI3N
SM MDC
Chairman ARRL ECAC
Atlantic Division Representative

2013 Simulated Emergency Test Announcement

Date:        October 5, 2013

Time:  0600 to 1600 hrs, local

Section Frequencies:  3.820MHz and 7.242MHz

Scenario:

Hurricane “Chessie” forms off the North Carolina coast and moves
into the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, causing widespread flooding along
the coast and into the tidal area. The Maryland mountains to the west
will experience landslides and flooding due to heavy rainfall.  Many
portions of our state will suffer from power outages and communications
disruptions.  Less affected areas of the Central region will have to
deal with an influx of evacuees possibly from PA.

Preparations:

1.        WI3N will distribute this document to subscribers of the MD Section
Newsletter and ECs in the section, along with a request to notify the
SEC of planned county participation on Oct 4.  Participating counties
will be asked to send a liaison to the Maryland Emergency Phone Net
(MEPN). 
2.        WB3KAS will distribute a message on the Emergency Coordinator email
reflector, warning subscribers of the approaching hurricane and asking
volunteer operators to contact their county EC with information on
their availability for deployment.
3.        The information in #2 will be repeated on the MDC-ARES reflector
group.
4.        On Friday evening, Oct 4 late, WI3N will distribute an update
message including a simulated NWS forecast.  The instructions to
contact your EC will be repeated and subscribers will be informed of
the pending MEPN activation on Saturday morning.
5.        The information in #4 will be repeated, along with an update that
the state and county EOCs will be activated at 0700 Saturday morning.
6.        The SEC and STM need to line up volunteer NCS stations for the MEPN
on Saturday. Action for W3YVQ.

Saturday, October 5:

1.        Activate the MEPN on 3.820MHz 0700 and at the top of the hour for 10
minutes through 1600 same day.
2.        Have liaison stations go to the WV, DE and VA section nets with NTS
traffic to their SECs advising them of the MEPN’s status and
requesting a liaison be sent every hour to the MEPN.  
3.        Have the county EOCs get information on current weather conditions
from as many adjacent MD counties as possible.  This can be via relay
from 2m or directly to the MEPN.  Have stations send the weather status
in ICS-213 format if possible.  NCS can direct them to www.arrl.org to
download the form.
4.        The county EOCs will request ICS-213 messages from each county with
a count of ARES members who have received IS-100, 200 & 700 training.
5.        Request local county SETs send ICS-213 traffic to the SEC with a
count of amateur’s participating in their exercise.
6.        Traffic may also be sent via Winlink 2000.  
7.        In the absence of a state EOC, the PRGE ARES EOC will be available
to receive traffic at wb3kas[at]winlink.org.

Measures

1.        How many stations checked into the Target Emergency Net in the
Western Region?
2.        How many stations checked in using emergency power?
3.        How many ICS-213 messages were passed on the Target Emergency Net?
4.        Number of digital messages received by the branch EOC’s, SEC and
SM?
5.        How many counties were represented by weather reports?
6.        How many counties were participating in the SET?
7.        How many EOC’s were staffed during the SET?
8.        How many ARES members were reported trained in ICS-100,200 & 700?

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