[HIham] State Civil Defense Makani Pahlili Hurricane Exercise Net, Tuesday 7:00-8:30 pm

[Ron Hashiro]

Hawaii Amateur Radio Operators,

Today marks the first day of the annual hurricane exercise sponsored by 
Hawaii State Civil Defense.  Dubbed Makani Pahili 2004, it runs from May 
10 to May 24.

This year, amateur radio operations will two sessions to practice 
emergency communications.  On Tuesday, State CD will be holding HF (7088 
KHz) and VHF nets (State RACES Repeater System 147.02, 147.04, 147.06)  
starting 7:00 pm through 8:30 pm.  Net control will be KH6HPZ.  Amateur 
radio operators are encouraged to check-in and pass ARRL Radiogram 
messages with State Civil Defense.

On Saturday morning, Oahu Civil Defense will be holding nets.

Please be sure to prefix and suffix all test messages with the sentence 
"This is an exercise message"

This e-mail serves as a simulated notice that a hurricane is in the 
area, and a Hurricane Watch is underway.

Tuesday night's net will concentrate on passing messages for emergency 
operations immediately after the passing of the hurricane.  See pages 11 
through 13 of the exercise plan (link below) for suggested scenarios for 
creating test messages.

Please refer to these links for additional reference information.

Makani Pahili exercise plan.
http://www.scd.state.hi.us/SCD_WEB/upload/MP04ExplanApr16update1.pdf

ARRL Radiogram references
http://aditl.com/dradio/msghndl.pdf  Tutorial
http://aditl.com/dradio/msgform.pdf  Form
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/teacher/kemp/radiograms.html  Explanation 
of Contents of Message Blocks
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/teacher/kemp/appendixa.html  Overall 
intro to Radiograms.

Index for Emergency Communications
http://home1.gte.net/rhashiro/am-radio/emcomm

Ron Hashiro, AH6RH
State Civil Defense RACES Cooridnator