[K3PZN-List] After Action Thoughts - Health Department Drill

[Steve Beckman]

Folks;

Thank you all for supporting the Health Department Drill this morning.

Please send me your logs, and comments by Monday August 28 so that I can 
send the report to DHMH. Also, feel free to share any observations here.

A few observations that I made:

1) Confusion about which version of MT63 we were using: MT63-2KL or 
MT63-2KS. We had some confusion about this last time too. One way to 
resolve this would be to have NCS make a test transmission at the 
beginning of the event, to insure everyone is in sync. It's also easy to 
check and confirm the mode by voice before switching to Digital.

2) Some stations left the net without checking with the NCS first. It's 
important to keep the NCS informed when you leave the net. A missing 
person situation is not a good thing, and someone who doesn't respond to 
a call on a net that they are checked into is a missing person.

3) There were a few other minor FLDIGI operational problems, that would 
quickly get resolved after a few minutes of use.

You accomplished a lot this morning. You set up a communications network 
in just a few minutes, that provided voice and digital communications 
capability, then tested that network and proved that it was operational. 
You tested backup communications paths in case the primary path failed. 
You operated the net in a manner that permitted effective communications 
with both voice and data. You diagnosed, and repaired some glitches 
along the way. Behind this network was over 200 years of radio 
communications experience. This represents a tremendous asset to our 
community, when an emergency occurs. Communications is the #1 item 
mentioned over and over again during exercise outbrief meetings with 
other emergency responders and support agencies. I hope you all 
understand how important your contribution is, and how much it is 
appreciated.

73; Steve, N3SB


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