[HIham] Change in SET 2005 Scenario for Saturday, Oct 1 9:00-11:00 am

[Ron Hashiro]

Amateur Radio Operators in Hawaii.

The scenario for Saturday's Simulated Emergency Net (SET) has changed.  
Originally, the scenario called for a recovery from a simulated 
hurricane.  With the rainstorms that are the remants of Tropical 
Disturbance Kenneth now in the vicinity of the main Hawaiian Islands, 
there is a  possibility for confusion of the simulated emergency 
messages with actual, live messages related to the rainstorm.  Confusion 
may also occur with the general public that may not be listening 
carefully to the radio traffic.

For SET 2005, the NCS will open SET as usual, taking check-ins, and 
announce the change in scenario from post-hurricane recovery.  The new 
scenario is monitoring the actual rainstorm activity and passing reports 
of weather and ground conditions in ARRL Radiogram form to the NCS.

The NCS is to take the reports and forward  it to the respective 
communications officer (assuming that a staff  person is assisting us 
during this SET event, and may be on site as an official activation due 
to the rainstorm).  If conditions warrant a response, the messages may 
be forwarded to agencies via telephone and other means.

If conditions warrant, SET 2005 may be cancelled and alerts and 
activations for emergency operations may take place.

For SET 2005, compose ARRL Radiograms, addressed to the NCS (ie, State 
RACES NCS, OCDA RACES NCS, Healthcomm NCS, etc) and report weather and 
ground conditons.  Please add your name and callsign for the signature 
block.  Messages during this period counts as net traffic for SET.  As 
time permits, NCS or other stations may send test messages to you.

Operations is expected to start at 9:00 am on these frequencies.  There 
may be other frequencies that will be hosting SET 2005 nets.

SCD:  147.02/147.04/147.06 Mhz FM; 7.088 Mhz LSB
OCDA:  146.88 Mhz FM
Healthcomm:  147.22 Mhz FM

Depending on conditions, Skywarn may operate on 147.02/147.04/147.06 at 
the :00 and :30 of the hour, and on 146.88 at :15 and :45 on the hour 
with bulletins and message handling.

Since the situation is fluid, please expect changes with operations for 
SET 2005.

Ron Hashiro, AH6RH