[ILHam] Public Service Event Help Needed SUNDAY (11 September)--Bolingbrook

[Neil R. Ormos N9NL]

Dear Cook County ARES® Members and Friends:

I'm forwarding this request for help at a public service event in Bolingbrook at the request of Jerry Watts K9LOT, the ARES Emergency Coordinator for Will County.

Please contact Jerry directly if you can help or you have questions.

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|> From: Jerry Watts <K9lot at arrl.net>
|> Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:52 PM
|> Subject: Parade Help Pathway Parade Tomorrow, Calling all Hams

Parade Help needed Tomorrow

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Ares and WillComm members and amateur radio operators,

BARS has asked us for assistance to help in the Pathway Parade tomorrow.
This is not a ARES ran event, but this is a great exercise from a last
minute, I need help from another.  Just as anytime an ARES would be asked
in a disaster or help from a county or local municipality with a shorter
time frame or period of notification.

If one was to look at what you would be learning as a Practical exercise.
One would be from a command structure of net control and treated as a
evacuated route with ARES helping to assist in keeping traffic off path of
directed flow of a route until told to release that traffic into the flow
after the parade.

Any event can be a creative and yet learning experience. Listening to
directions with a large volume of noise around is a learning experience in
itself.

If your available to help at this event. follow the contact information
below.

I will be out there helping and using for myself as a practice exercise
also and hope to see ARES helping also, as we start practical training in
different environments that amateur radio is used in.

Remember. Amateur radio is used in all different areas of helping by
volunteering to support the communities. But also is a great way to get
used to protocols and such and learn little things in that environment such
as, watching kids around the area who are chasing the candy and could get
hit by a vehicle. Happens more that one thinks in parades.

Come out and help and have some fun,

Jerry Watts-K9LOT
EC Will County
815-276-5085

Date                         September 11th, 2016
EVENT:                   51^st Annual Pathways Parade 2016, in Bolingbrook
IL.
LOCATION:            In front of the Bolingbrook Police Station, 375 W.
Briacliff Rd. Bolingbrook, IL. 60440.
PARKING:              Same address as above.
PERSON IN CHARGE:  Lt. Dave Schurr, Bolingbrook Police Department.
TIMES:                    12:45 pm roll call and briefing,
1:30 pm, personnel to be on their assigned position.
2:00 pm, the parade starts.
BAND PLAN:
Primary- K9BAR 147.330 (+) Pl 107.2 or 443.525 (+)114.8 Linked
Primary simplex ÿÿ ARES F-01-146.400
Alternate simplex ÿÿ ARES F-05 ÿÿ 146.460
TACTICAL CALL SIGNS:
Net Control Operator ÿÿBARS COMMANDÿÿ
Individual Posts, TBD at briefing.
COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCALS:
Use the ÿÿto-from formatÿÿ.  Call the person you want to communicate with
then identify yourself.
Double phrase your initial message, repeat it twice.
Use three way communications:
1. When sending your message, double phrase it.
2. Person receiving the message repeats it back once to confirm it.
3. The person who sent the message confirms the message is correct by
saying O.K.

CLEAR SPEECH:     All radio traffic will be in clear speech, no 10-codes,
signals, or Ham radio jargon.


EMERGENCY RADIO TRAFFIC:
1. If you have an EMERGENCY say the wordÿÿ EMERGENCYÿÿ and then your tactical
call sign. Example, BARS Command, Emergency Radio Traffic from, your
tactical call sign.
2. BARS COMMAND will acknowledge you, clear the air, and have you proceed
with your EMERGENCY TRAFFIC.
3. When sending your EMREGENCY TRAFFIC double phrase it.

APPAREL:               Yellow ARRL Vest

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73

--Neil Ormos N9NL
ARES® District Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
ARES District 4 (Cook, DuPage, Lake Counties)
Email: n9nl /at-sign/ arrl.net