[HIham] Big Island Simulated Emergency Test (BISET) Sat. 06 Oct 2007, 10-12:00 W

[Norm Cohler]

In view of the conflict this year between the Ironman Triathlon and the Hawai`i statewide Simulated Emergency Test (SET) on 13 October 2007, we hams of Hawai`i County are having our own BISET this year. It will be a week earlier than the statewide SET. This morning the O`ahu Department of Emergency Management had an O`ahu SET already.

The BISET will begin on Saturday, 06 October 2007, on 7.088 MHz at 10:00W (10:00AM HST), or as soon as the HealthComm HF net ends. We will pass formal messages and tactical messages which you hams will make up. Net will close at noon. We will pass traffic on 7.093 MHz 
(+/-), to keep 7.088 as Net Control frequency.

If ionospheric conditions are still bad on 40m at 10:00W, we will go to 3.9935 MHz as our alternate Net Control frequency, with 3.988 MHz as alternate traffic-passing frequency.

Emergency coordinators will total points earned from the BISET and the statewide SET and the ODEM SET for reporting to ARRL headquarters.

The scenario will be (surprise!): a magnitude 6.7 earthquake has just hit off Kiholo Bay, and power is off and cellphone service is clogged. Some roads are blocked with boulders, and some bridges are damaged. No fatalities. Many homes with light to heavy damage.

There will also be a second net, meeting on the statewide RACES repeater on 147.02+ MHz, if we can find a net control station to take this job. Please contact NH7UA if you want to be NCS. 

The BIWARN repeater, and preferably simplex, are available for traffic, but net control should be on 147.02(04/06), so that we can pass messages inter-island to SCD if necessary.

Thank you all for being flexible and rolling with the natural and man-made punches!

Aloha, Norm, NH7UA