[K3CAL] Ham radio in the news

[Dennis N3QHC]

Who is Shaw?  

 

We will be talking to the people at the EOC to get our radios operational again!  This County has an Amateur Radio operator in nearly every community who can relay messages to the EOC or wherever for those that need to get a message out after “structured communication” devices have failed.  That is exactly why Amateur Radio operators are so indispensible!  Remember, “When All Else Fails…Amateur Radio”.

 

There is an article in this September 2, 2011, The Calvert Recorder front page, where Governor O’Malley says this very same thing.  The CERTS volunteers were taught this.  Citizen’s in Joplin, Missouri and other areas hit disasters that wiped out “structure communication” used hams as First Responders.  We are self-stuffiest, not needing external power or structure to get the ‘message’ to its designation.  

 

Just hang in there.  Quite sure our RACES Officer & others will be talking with Calvert County Emergency Manager, Bobby Fenwick, real soon about getting our antenna cables that were cut at the EOC fixed or replaced.  Irene’s destruction was a wake-up call for many people.

 

As said at the last meeting, anyone of us needs to call an ARES Net so soon as possible to support our neighbors when these events occur.  There are well over 700,000 hams across this country, one in nearly every community.  

 

Another task we should be doing regularly is checking or (monitor) into the Baltimore Traffic Net <http://www.baltimoretraffic.net/> , BTN, 146.670 MHz., daily at 1830-Hours (6:30PM).  We do receive messages for this area often and it good practice learning how and what to do with traffic.  We will schedule meeting time to learn about Radiograms, Traffic and ICS message required by Department of Home Security (DHS).  

 

Everyone who has not should take the following free courses online >  

 

·         <http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/IS700a.asp> IS-700 National Incident Management System (NIMS) 

·         <http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/Is/is100A.asp> IS-100 Incident Command System 

·         <http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/IS200a.asp> IS-200 ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents 

·         <http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/IS800b.asp> IS-800 National Response Framework 

I think I have the answers to the questions if you like to check before submitting.

 

73, Dennis/N3QHC

 

From: k3cal-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:k3cal-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of KB3WFV
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 2:44 PM
To: Calvert Amateur Radio Association - K3CAL
Subject: Re: [K3CAL] Ham radio in the news

 


Thanks for the link Bob

This part of the article jumped out at me, I wonder if Ham Radio Operators could help with this. 

"Shaw said one lesson to take away from the disaster is communication improvement, since at one point no text messages worked inside the EOC. “So if you wanted to communicate that way you had to go outside in the rain,” she said.

Also, in the future she would like to designate one person per community to work with the county during an emergency.

“A lot of [people] were calling my cellphone, which did not work,” Shaw said. “That’s one of the things we’ll be working on ... so we’re not telling 15 different people in a community this is the way to handle it.”

 

Brian 

KB3WFV

 

 


--- On Fri, 9/2/11, Bob Sheskin <bob at n3pph.com> wrote:


From: Bob Sheskin <bob at n3pph.com>
Subject: [K3CAL] Ham radio in the news
To: k3cal at mailman.qth.net
Date: Friday, September 2, 2011, 10:10 AM

We as ham operators in Calvert got a mention in the Recorder.
http://tinyurl.com/3st2q7k

73,
Bob N3PPH



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