[W2CRA] PA Emergency Exercise

[Tony Ploski]

Info on emergency exercise

Tony
W2HWW


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*Great Northeast Shakeout exercise - Oct 17 
*<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NBEMSham/message/9079;_ylc=X3oDMTJyZTNncGx1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzIxNDU0Nzk3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MzEwOARtc2dJZAM5MDc5BHNlYwNkbXNnBHNsawN2bXNnBHN0aW1lAzEzODE0NzYzNzQ->**

Thu Oct 10, 2013 4:38 pm (PDT) . Posted by: kb3fxi 
<mailto:kb3fxi at yahoo.com?subject=Re%3A%20Great%20Northeast%20Shakeout%20exercise%20-%20Oct%2017>


Hello all,

General information on the Great Northeast Shakeout is available at: 
http://shakeout.org/northeast/

Please feel free to widely distribute this announcement:

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Please send this to all groups and ACS Volunteers:

The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency Auxiliary Communications 
Service will be activated on Thursday October 17th, 2013 at 10:17 a.m. 
ET for the Great Northeast Shakeout as part of a nationwide earthquake 
exercise. KB3NIA will be the NCS and those duties will be delegated to 
K3EOC (Allegheny County). Digital net will be delegated to KB3FXI. The 
Digital net will run the entire length of the drill.

Starting at 10:17 EST Phone net check-ins will be held on the 75 meter 
band on 3.9935 MHz LSB
Starting at 11:17 EST Phone net check-ins will be held on 40m frequency 
of 7.272 MHz LSB.
Starting at 12:17 EST VHF/UHF phone net check-ins will be according to 
local area NCS protocols

Digital NBEMS net operations will be conducted on 7.0725 MHz USB using 
mode Olivia 8/500 centered at 1500 Hz waterfall frequency with a backup 
frequency of 3.5830 MHz USB. NBEMS nets will consist of plain text and 
ICS-213 message format using the FLMSG application. Larger plain text 
and CSV spreadsheet files will be sent with mode MFSK-32 and the FLAMP 
application.

NBEMS applications are available for free download at 
http://www.w1hkj.com/download.html. Those with questions or who need 
help with NBEMS/FLDIGI/FLMSG/FLAMP setup and testing may contact the 
PEMA/ACS digital manager at kb3fxi at yahoo.com.

The PEMA/ACS Great Shakeout nets will be directed nets. All stations are 
welcome to participate, but please follow the direction of the NCS.

Cynthia A Garfold- KB3LZN, AUXCOM

Commonwealth Auxiliary Communications Services (ACS) Officer
Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA)
2605 Interstate Drive
Harrisburg, PA 17110


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Here is some additional operational information for the Oct 17 Great 
Northeast Shakeout and the PEMA/ACS net that will be activated for the 
exercise:

Additional notes on the Great Northeast Shakeout exercise:

1) All messages and bulletins with simulated emergency traffic should 
start and end with:
"this is a test message for the purpose of an emergency communications 
exercise... this is only a drill"

2) Our goal with the PEMA/ACS Digital net is to send and receive test 
priority and test emergency traffic and identify as many active on the 
air EOC and Served Agency Stations as possible. When possible, please 
use the ICS-213 form in FLMSG.

3) EOC manned stations (State, County and Local) as well as EOC and NET 
liaison stations are highly encouraged to participate. If you don't have 
access to your EOC station, but you have a working relationship with 
your EMA officials, ask them if they would be willing to generate an 
ICS-213 message that you could input into FLMSG to relay out on their 
behalf. Make sure your served agency officials understand that these 
will not be secure communications.

4) All properly licensed stations are welcome to participate. Please 
follow the direction of NCS. Depending on the amount of traffic, NCS may 
limit check ins to only stations with Test Priority or Test Emergency 
traffic. When time permits, NCS will take general check ins from any 
stations, anywhere.

5) Please do not acknowledge 100% confirmation or transmit resend 
requests unless NCS directs you to do so.

6) Stations need not be within Pennsylvania to participate, nor do they 
have to be affiliated with any particular services or served agencies.

7) WL2K / Winmor - We will be attempting to work with Winmor / WL2K 
during the exercise and hope to send at least 2 emails out to some of 
our PEMA officials. We will also be checking the Winmor address 
KB3FXI at Winlink.org. Please limit emails to this address during the 
exercise to messages originated by EOC/EMA officials and keep the 
content as short as possible. Again, be sure to advise your EOC/EMA 
officials that these communications are not secure but will be delivered 
with 100% accuracy confirmed, when possible, conditions permitting.

- David Kleber, KB3FXI
PEMA/ACS Digital Manager
kb3fxi at yahoo.com
412-447-1767


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