[W2CRA] Upcomming RACES Events

Mon, 02 Sep 2002 14:46:14 -0400

This is for RACES Members or any one considering becoming one.

It's been almost 1 year since September 11, 2001 and as RACES 
Coordinator in Hunterdon County, I've heard nothing about how things may 
change.  In the long run I hope they define a role for us in Home 
Defense as well but, until they do we must keep our skills sharp as 
communicators.  

We have two upcoming opportunities:

We have a small county exercise on the evening of September 9, 2002 at 
19:00 hrs. Roberto and I will Call a Formal Net on the 147.375 repeater 
if it's open or use the 147.015 repeater as an alternate, we have been 
told that we may have up to 6 Municipal EOCs to operate from and we are 
asking for volunteers to operate those stations.  All volunteers will 
have to bring there own equipment because we do not know yet, which EOCs 
we'll be operating from.  I would like all RACES members to be on the 
air that night, we will have a role call.  This exercise will be much 
like the one done two years ago where we provided communications between 
the County EOC and the Municipal EOC Coordinators.

This club and all it's members have always been professionals, I have 
always been proud of your professionalism, excited by your enthusiasm 
and thrilled with your helpfulness and support, Thank You!

Please contact me or Roberto at;

Michael N. Varas, KC2CMC
908-806-3998 or [email protected]

Roberto Matos, K2PA
908-788-8253 or [email protected]

Second I've included a recent E mail from Marty Grozinski, W2CG

I will support the Warren County event anyway I can because in a pinch, 
they'll help us,

Our membership in the Hunterdon County RACES is larger then in Warren 
County, this is a chance to see how other people operate and get some 
new ideas as well.

When you pledge your help to Warren County please let Roberto or me 
know, as you can well imagine there is allot of good reasons to keep a list.

Thank you
Michael N. Varas, KC2CMC
W2CRA Board Member and Hunterdon County RACES Coordinator

From: "Marty Grozinski" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 01:45:12 -0000
Subject: [W2CRA] RACES OPERATORS NEEDED

CALL FOR RACES OPERATORS

Warren County RACES is participating in a county-wide exercise involving =
all emergency services on Saturday, September 21, 2002 and they are =
short  6 to 10 RACES Operators to successfully accomplish the
planned drills.=20

The Warren County RACES Chief invites all Hunterdon County RACES members =
to help out with this exercise. The exercise will run from 7 AM until =
Noon and a free lunch will be included. Anyone interested can contact =
John K2WJ directly at [email protected] .=20

A timely response would be appreciated to allow for planning.

de W2CG

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