[K3PZN-List] ARES and RACES members, please read about the NY Drill results

Tue May 18 18:56:17 EDT 2004

As for a training opportunity, please see the following....

Dan Blasberg
KA8YPY

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Why come to an NCAC Institute?
  Partly, to learn procedures in case we are called on in a  
communications emergency (how to find out what you can do, equipment  
you will need & what to bring to take care of your own needs). Partly,  
to learn how we operate more formally in an emergency to be more  
efficient.

The national Weather Service recommends that even if you are a trained  
spotter, you should take a periodic refresher course to keep yourself  
sharp.

Supplies and expert help will be on hand to get you on the way to  
building your own "Power Pole" for quick connect to power supplies.

We will also offer a discussion of the recent Dulles Drill (or how to  
keep a plane crash from becoming a train wreck?). Amateur Radio fits  
into the planning process and operations as patients are triaged and  
transported to a network of regional hospitals.

Get together and learn from other attendees from the area. Maryland,  
DC, Virginia and others welcome! Its less than two weeks away! Register  
online at NCACDC.com.

$10 for materials and lunch just off the Capital Beltway in Prince  
George Co., Md.

Here is the days schedule:
                                                     NCAC Institute

May 22, 2004

Prince George's Co. MD

A full day of emergency service communications training, materials and  
lunch for $10.
Build a Power Pole! Share your clever innovations at the Science Fair!

Hosted by Prince George's Office of Emergency Management

Register at: http://www.ncacdc.com

  8:30 – 9:00: Registration

  9:00 – 10:00: General Session: Brief Intro to ARES and NCAC  
Operations    Plan; Go Kits

10:00 – 10:15: Break

10:15 – 11:15: General Session: NWS Skywarn Basic Spotter 1

  11:15 – 11:30: Break

11:30 – 12:30: General Session: NWS Skywarn Basic Spotter 1, cont.

12:30 – 1:30    Lunch

  1:30 – 2:30

Dulles Exercise Planning and Ops

Power Pole Workshop and Science Fair  (all afternoon)                 

2:30 – 2:45:  
Break                                                                    

2:45 – 3:45: National Traffic System or  Directed  
Nets                                  

3:45 – 4:00: Break

4:00 – 5:00: National Traffic System or Directed Net Exercise          

Directions to the Prince George Office of Emergency Management, Fire  
Service Building, 6820 Webster St, Landover Hills, MD 20784:

 From north of Prince George via I-95: 

1.       Take I-95 South. Stay in left two lanes and continue onto  
I-495/I-95 South.

2.       1 mile after Kenilworth Ave exit, take I-295 (Balt-Wash  
Parkway) South toward Washington.

3.       The second exit will be for Rt 450.

4.       Take that exit and stay in left lane.

5.       At the lite at the end of the exit ramp, turn left onto Rt 450.

6.       At the 4th traffic lite turn left onto 68th Ave. The Landover  
Hills Fire department is on the corner.

7.       Go one block to the end of the fire dept and turn right onto  
Webster St.

8.       In two blocks you will come to the Hanford Graves Fire Service  
Building.

  9.       Proceed around the building CCW (follow the one way sign).

10.   Park along the side of the building in the non-designated spaces.  
You can enter the OEM thru the door by the telephone pole with our  
antennas on it in the middle of the building.

11.   Go thru the office to the main hall, turn left and in a few paces  
turn right into the PLANNING room.

 From Beltway South of Prince George: 

1.       Take Beltway to Rt 450.

2.       Take exit toward Bladensburg (West).

3.       Go approx 2 miles.

4.       At the light at 68th Ave turn Right, by the Landover Hills  
Fire Department.

5.       Follow steps 7 thru 11 above.

 From I-295 (Balt-Wash Parkway) from DC: 

1.       Go East on I-295 to Rt 450. (It’s just past the exit for Rt  
202 and PG Hospital).

2.       Take Rt 450 exit East.

3.       Follow steps 6 thru 11 above.

 From I-295 (Balt-Wash Parkway): 

1.       Follow I-295 South to second exit (Rt 450) after you’ve passed  
the Wash Beltway (I-495).

2.       Follow steps 4-11 above.

On May 18, 2004, at 1:01 PM, Keith Krichinsky wrote:

> Doug,
>
> Please allow me to augment the message below......
>
> All the more reason for MORE of us to be trained, tested, certified  
> and re-trained, re-tested and re-certified on an annual basis.
>
> Question to all CCARC Members:  What ARES/RACES training have you  
> participated in since May 1st 2003? (None, huh?)....... Remember Field  
> Day IS an ARES training opportunity.  In order to reap the most  
> benefit from this 'emergency deployment training,' you MUST  
> participate!  The more you participate the better prepared you will  
> become.
>
> Come to the June 14th CCARC meeting at 7:30 PM @ the FTC to find out  
> more.
>
> 73,
>
> Keith Krichinsky - KB3HHK
>
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Douglas Kearney" <kearneydj at adelphia.net>
> Reply-To: Carroll County Amateur Radio Club  
> <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
> To: <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [K3PZN-List] ARES and RACES members,please read about the NY  
> Drill results
> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:16:44 -0400
>
> Greetings Fellow Club Members,
>
> 	PLEASE READ!!!!
>
> 	This is a post from the ARRLMENTORS group that I am a member. The
> groups purpose is a reflector for ECOM mentors of the ARRL ECOM  
> courses. I
> think that this email will be of interest to the group over all. I  
> will also
> try to get an electronic copy of the article that is mentioned in the  
> email
> below.
>
> Regards,
> Douglas Kearney N5LBJ
>
> FROM w2ilp at juno.com
>
>         The following comes from parts of an article in today's  
> "Newsday", a
> Long Island, NY daily newspaper - ....The National Commission of  
> Terrorist
> Attacks Upon the United States will hear from former and present  
> police and
> fire commanders today and tomorrow....
> ...The city held a terrorism drill Sunday in what several sources said  
> was a
> concerted effort to impress the 9/11 commission, only to have a police
> officer hurl a firefighter to the ground during a dispute over who was  
> in
> charge....
> ....Radio communication on 9/11 is also expected  to be a major  
> topic....
> ....The Fire Department has conceded that the current model of its new
> hand-held radios are being discontinued by the manufacturer, Motorola.
> The XTS3500 radios purchased in 1999 were put in service in March 2001  
> and
> withdrawn within a week because of potential fatal transmission  
> problems.
>         The Fire Department was using its old Sabre model Motorola  
> radios on
> 9/11, but it has since returned the XT3500.
>         "We're absolutely going to have new radios soon". Philip  
> McArdle,
> the health and safety coordinator of the Uniformed Firefighters  
> Association
> said yesterday.
>         Another union representative offered a similar view. "If we  
> have
> another major crisis, whether terror or other, we would face a lot of  
> the
> same problems as we faced on 9/11," said Robert Unger, spokesman for  
> the
> union representing ambulance workers, who are a part of the Fire  
> Department.
> <end of quotes from Newsday>
>
>         I hate to comment at this time myself...but I want all  
> volunteer
> radio amateur emergency folks to understand that emergency operation  
> in the
> Big Apple is controlled by union organized paid professionals who  
> neither
> want or need any help from amateurs.  It is their responsibility.
>
>         I urge all to follow the TV and newspaper reports pertaining  
> to this
> commission.  Also expected is an alleged accusation that people in the  
> south
> WTC tower were told (via a PA system) to stay at their desks after the  
> first
> tower was hit, even though the FAA and FBI knew that
> there was more than one airliner skyjacked.  Poor communication?   If
> true....Yes...but nothing that hams could have done about it even with  
> long
> range radios.
>
>         Enuf sed about big city emergencies...There are no "organized"
> professional unions for paid professionals in less populated areas.   
> It is
> only beyond the big cities that Ham emergency training is of great  
> value.
> Volunteers with their own organizations and their own radios may  
> accomplish
> more there.
>
> Respectful 73,
> Bob Wexelbaum,  W2ILP
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------- BREAK  
> -----------------------------------------------
> Next CCARC meeting Monday June 14, 7:30 PM, at the FTC.
> Our topic will be the Field Day Tactical Briefing, By Gen. A. M.  
> Bisasky, Freedom Park Theatre Commander,
> and an operational forces briefing from the station captains.
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> Next CCARC meeting Monday June 14, 7:30 PM, at the FTC.
> Our topic will be the Field Day Tactical Briefing, By Gen. A. M.  
> Bisasky, Freedom Park Theatre Commander,
> and an operational forces briefing from the station captains.
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