[PBARC] CSEPP exercise tonight

[E Glenn Wolf Jr]

All -

Below is a note from John Norlund.  Wally has indicated that the 
exercise will likely end around 6:30 or so.
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The CSEPP exercise is tonight.

For any who don't know, this is the Chemical Stockpile Emergency 
Preparedness Program for the Pine Bluff Arsenal.

This afternoon at about 3 PM activities will commence at the Arsenal.  
An accident will be simulated, and we have been told to expect this to 
be a mustard agent event.

In a briefing meeting earlier this week, it was stated that the off-post 
activities may not get started till around 5 PM.  The participating 
hospitals have requested their operators to be in place by 4 PM just to 
be sure all are ready.

The exercise will continue until evaluation objectives are met, or until 
about 10 PM tonight.

Since the exercise is occurring at a time that allows the ham community 
to come out and participate, several things are planned to allow us to 
obtain maximum training benefit  from this event.

The Central Arkansas UHF group will be conducting a _*Simulated 
Emergency Test*_ this afternoon on the ARLinks Statewide Network.  For 
more information on where this system reaches, see the CAUHF 
<http://www.cauhf.org> Website.

At 4:30 PM a check-in will be conducted for the *_Metro Hospital 
Tactical Network _*on the 145.13 MHz repeater (no tone) located on 
Children's Hospital.   The Children's Repeater will be linked to the 
ARLinks system this afternoon for this event.

Actual exercise traffic is expected to commence about 5 PM from the Pine 
Bluff Arsenal to the outside agencies.

Expect a significant portion of ham radio traffic for this event to 
occur on the ARLinks system, as the outlying counties are not able to 
reach other repeaters that have been used in the past for the CSEPP 
events.  This is a*_ regional _*exercise, and it is very important that 
communications be handled on a regional basis.

Thank you all for your interest and participation.


73 de AD5FU
John Nordlund
ARRL- Arkansas Section Emergency Coordinator

ad5fu at arrl.net

(501) 231-7001