[MDC-EC] Maryland-DC Section FSD-96 SEC Report

[Steve Beckman]

Monthly Section Emergency Coordinator Report to ARRL Headquarters
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ARRL Section: 
Maryland-DC               Month:   November               Year: 2011
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AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY SERVICE
Total number of ARES members: 653
Change since last month: -1

Number of DECs/ECs reporting this month: 3
Number of ARES nets active: 12
Number with NTS liaison: 4

Calls of DECs/ECs reporting: N3SEO, KB3FMJ, and N3SB.

Number of drills, tests and training sessions this month: 12
Person hours: 77

Number of public service events this month: 2
Person hours: 135

Number of emergency operations this month: 0
Person hours: 0

Total number of ARES operations this month: 14
Total Person hours: 192

Comments:

Anne Arundel County: ARES members supporting the Veterans Day 50K: K3TED, 
KA3RNW, WA3HOO, N3WOF, KB3RFX, KB3TEW, W3RTX, KA2JAI. ARES members 
supporting the Cold Turkey 10K: KA2JAI, N3WOF, KB3KWT, N3HKJ, W0NQW, N3SEO, 
WA5VHU, K3RUP, W3DQT.

Garrett County: Bill Shomo (KB3FMJ) reviewed using amateur radio during 
hurricane events. The group reviewed preparations for a local Simulated 
Emergency Test for Garrett County that will test the group's ability to 
pass traffic over a variety of repeater sites. The test is scheduled to 
occur December 3rd over the Target Link Repeater system and simplex on 
146.805. The Garrett County ARES (GCARES) monthly meeting location is 
normally held at the Garrett County Southern Rescue Squad located on route 
135 east of Oakland Maryland. The next meeting will be Monday December 12th 
at 7:00 PM at the China Wok in Oakland MD on route 219 for the annual 
Christmas party. Notice: The GCARES Net is normally held weekly on Sunday 
evenings at 8:00 PM on the 146.805, dup PL 123 and is linked to the WAN and 
Target Link Repeater Systems. Currently the repeater is experiencing 
problems and the Net has been temporarily suspended.

Prince Georges County: Nets: Held four regularly scheduled training VHF 
nets on 146.61MHz on Tuesdays at 1930L. The monthly HF Hospital Net was 
held on November 23 with 11 check-ins. They were: KB3NJK, KC8CFM in Canton 
OH, WA3YTK, NX3CSS, N3ADF, N3YWZ, KC8OYD mobile in MI, N6UW, AB3NA and 
WB3KAS. November 11: Wired up and tested six 100amp-hr batteries at the 
county EOC. Two providing inhouse comms backups with Power Gates and four 
on standby charge, ready for deployment. November 16: Traced out a bad HF 
coax cable at the EOC with the help of a Time Domain Reflectometer courtesy 
of AA3WS. November 18: EC WB3KAS and AEC KA3AHI met with and presented to 
Bob Mulladay, Southern Maryland Hospital Center Safety Officer, a proposal 
for the future possibility of an RMS Packet Node installed at the hospital. 
More discussions to follow. November 19: Held a Winlink 2000 RMS Express 
and Airmail Peer-to-Peer training session in preparation for the January 
Quarterly Hospital Drill. Six members brought in their equipment and set up 
Express stations in the EOC training room. A combination of Airmail and 
Express were used 2 of 2 to look for and adjudicate any potential 
communication problems with transferring simple and complex messages among 
the players. November 21: Held our last meeting of the year at the county 
EOC. Next month's Holiday Social. It will be held at the Collington 
Community Radio Club (KB3WOB) in Largo in conjunction with their on-the-air 
debut. There will be no meeting in December. The next regular monthly ARES 
meeting will be January 16.

Signature: Steve Beckman
Call sign: N3SB
Email: n3sb at qis.net

Please send to ARRL HQ, 225 Main St., Newington, CT 06111 by 10th of the month
FSD-96 (1-04)