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

[Steve Beckman]

Hi Nancy;

Everyone starts at the beginning.

Your success from that point forward depends on your positive attitude 
and your calm demeanor. The calm demeanor is probably the most 
important. Served agencies and fellow hams will not want to work with 
someone who has a bad attitude.

You got your messages through. Success! Thanks for participating today.

73; Steve, N3SB

On 8/5/2017 1:06 PM, Nancy G wrote:
> Steve, please let me know if there was some function that I did not perform or if I did something incorrect. I have only done the drill one other time where I actually operated equipment so I wasn't very confident in my ability to set it up or get through all the items on the sheet.
> Thanks for letting me participate.
>
> Sent from my iPhone, Nancy KC3HEW
>
>
>> On Aug 5, 2017, at 12:19 PM, Steve Beckman <n3sb at qis.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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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