[PARC] RAC Simulated Emergency Test, Oct 14/16

[Randy Neals]

https://www.rac.ca/simulated-emergency-test/

*Simulated Emergency Test (SET) 2023*
Operation Dark Skies: Part 1 October 14 | Part 2 October 16
Operation Dark Skies: Part 1 | Part 2 | Amateurs Needed During Solar Eclipse
This year’s Simulated Emergency Test will coincide with a celestial
phenomenon: a solar eclipse!
Jason Tremblay, VE3JXT – RAC Community Services Officer

The Simulated Emergency Test (SET) is a Canada-wide exercise in emergency
communications, which is administered by Radio Amateurs of Canada’s
Community Services Officer and Section Managers. This year ‘s event is
known as “Operation Dark Skies” and will be held in two parts as described
below.

Calling All Amateurs: We Need Your Help During Solar Eclipses!
Members of the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) will be
making radio contacts during the 2023 and 2024 North American eclipses,
probing the Earth’s ionosphere. It will be a fun, friendly event with a
competitive element – and you’re invited to participate.

Promo for Operation Dark Skies Simulated Emergency Test showing a solar
eclipse

*Operation Dark Skies: Part 1*
Saturday, October 14
The Simulated Emergency Test (SET) will be conducted in conjunction with
actual events.

This Part will be held on October 14, 2023, for five hours, including the
eclipse.

The objective is to gather information on Amateur operations before, during
and after the event. All data will be reviewed for future planning of
emergency events.

Radio Amateurs of Canada is looking to engage as many operators as possible
and utilize all bands and modes.

CanWarn-trained individuals can also give up-to-date local weather reports
and visual observations during the event. Reports will be sent to
canwarn at rac.ca or on Winlink to AUXC-CAN.

Participants must sign up at set at rac.ca to be included in the online
briefing which will be held on September 22 at 7 pm Eastern.

For more information on the solar eclipse visit:

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/citizenscience/ham-radio-operators-we-need-your-help-during-solar-eclipses
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/home/
Jason Tremblay, VE3JXT
RAC Community Services Officer

*Operation Dark Skies: Part 2*
Monday, October 14
Part 2 of the Simulated Emergency Test  will be held on Monday, October 16
 in partnership with Niagara Regional Emergency Management and the
Niagara’s Community Emergency Response Team.

Full-scale deployment Exercise Dark Skies is part of the Niagara Regional
preparedness for the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse.

This exercise will have multiple roles for Certified Emergency Response
Training (CERT) and the Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS) such as:

Field/site deployment including staging areas and demonstrations of field
communications
AuxComm Support at Regional Emergency Operation Centre
Support within Regional and Municipal Operations




*Radio Amateurs of Canada is looking for three teams to set up staging
areas for the SET and teams that are willing to deploy for both operational
and demonstration purposes for Emergency Management officials.Team 1:
Staging Area in the Burlington area; a 5-person teamTeam 2: Staging Area in
the North Toronto/Orangeville area; a 5-person teamTeam 3: Northern Ontario
field deployment for Provincial communications. More information will be
announced at the September 23 meeting.*
More details will be available at the training sessions which will be held
on September 22, 23 and 25 at 7 pm Eastern. Please contact set at rac.ca to
register.

SET Reporting will not be done this year so please attend the training
sessions for more information on the reporting procedures.

Jason Tremblay, VE3JXT
RAC Community Services Officer

Calling All Amateurs: We Need Your Help During Solar Eclipses!
Members of the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) will be
making radio contacts during the 2023 and 2024 North American eclipses,
probing the Earth’s ionosphere. It will be a fun, friendly event with a
competitive element – and you’re invited to participate.

Both amateur and professional broadcasters have been sending and receiving
radio signals around the Earth for over a century. Such communication is
possible due to interactions between our Sun and the ionosphere, the
ionized region of the Earth’s atmosphere located roughly 80 to 1000 km
overhead.

The upcoming eclipses (October 14, 2023, and April 8, 2024) provide unique
opportunities to study these interactions. As you and other HamSCI members
transmit, receive, and record signals across the radio spectrum during the
eclipse, you will create valuable data to test computer models of the
ionosphere.

For more information, go to
https://hamsci.org/festivals-eclipse-ionospheric-science

More about solar eclipses:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/home/

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