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EMERGENCY COORDINATOR, I AM ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO GET OUR LOCAL IDAHO
AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS INVOLVED, TO GET THEM MOVING, AND TO HAVE FUN.
EVERY YEAR WE PLAN AND PARTICIPATE IN OUR LOCAL IDAHO SIMULATED EMERGENCY
TEST.  WE TRY TO BASE THE OPERATION AND FEEL FITTING OUR UNIQUE GEOGRAPHIC
CONDITIONS.  FOR 3 YEARS NOW, WE HAVE ENGAGED IN OUR OWN GAME, THE IDAHO
WAY, TRAINING AS WE GO AND STILL HAVING FUN.  FOR 2 YEARS, WE ENTERED
MESSAGES INTO THE SYSTEM AS A RADIOGRAM 

COMMUNICATIONS.  JACK ROBERTS, WC9J, IS THE COMMITTEE HEAD FOR ALL AMATEUR
RADIO COMMUNICATIONS UTILIZED DURING THE EVENT.  THESE GENTLEMEN, ALONG
WITH OTHERS, SPEND COUNTLESS HOURS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO PLAN FOR A
SMOOTH, EFFECTIVE EVENT.  THE HHH RIDE ALLOWS ARES AND WARS TO EXERCISE
THEIR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS PLANS MORE THAN ANY OTHER ACTIVITY THAT WE
COULD HAVE.  EACH GROUPS LEADERSHIP AND MEMBERS ACTIVELY COORDINATES WITH
LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIDE STAFF, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, THE AMERICAN RED CROSS,
AND MANY OTHER AGENCIES THAT ARE LISTED ON THE ATTACHED REPORT FORM.  THIS
IS A VALUABLE ASSET IN THAT WE WORK WITH THE ORGANIZATIONS AND PERSONNEL
THAT WE WOULD WORK WITH IN AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY SITUATION.  WITHIN THE ARES
AND WARS GROUPS, PLANNING AND OPERATION OF 16 REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS SITES
MUST BE DONE, INVOLVING SOME 62 AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS SCATTERED THROUGH
TWO COUNTIES, CONTROLLED BY THREE OPERATIONAL NETS ONE ON VHF, AND TWO
OPERATING ON UHF LOCAL REPEATERS.  UP TO SIX MOBILE UNITS ARE IN OPERATION
THROUGHOUT THE EVENT, WITH ALL REMOTE SITES AND MOBILE UNITS USING BATTERY
POWER.  THIS YEAR, WE INCLUDED DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS FOR PASSING SOME

2014 SIMULATED EMERGENCY TEST RESULTS  DURING 2014, SIMULATED EMERGENCY
TESTS WERE CONDUCTED FOR A WIDE RANGE OF SCENARIOS.  STEVE EWALD, WV1X,
WV1X ARRL. ORG  THE FOLLOWING WRITE UPS, SUMMARIES, AND STATISTICAL REPORTS
ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OUTSTANDING EFFORTS BY MANY RADIO AMATEURS AND
MEMBERS AND LEADERS OF ARES, RACES, SKYWARN, NATIONAL TRAFFIC SYSTEM, THE
ARRL FIELD ORGANIZATION, AND OTHER ALLIED GROUPS.  THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD
WORK.  SET IS HOTTERN HELL IN WICHITA COUNTY, TEXAS  CHARLIE BYARS, W5GPO
DEC, ARES DISTRICT 1, NORTH TEXAS THIRTY THREE YEARS AGO, THE WICHITA
COUNTY ARES, ALONG WITH THE WICHITA AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY WARS, BEGAN
PROVIDING AMATEUR RADIO SUPPORT TO THE HOTTERN HELL HUNDRED HHH BIKE RIDE
AND RACE HELD ANNUALLY IN WICHITA FALLS.  THIS EVENT OFFERS US A UNIQUE
OPPORTUNITY TO EXERCISE THE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS ABILITIES FOR RADIO
OPERATORS IN BOTH ORGANIZATIONS.  THIS YEAR THE EVENT HAD 12,800
PARTICIPANTS, ALONG WITH SEVERAL THOUSAND VOLUNTEER WORKERS.
COMMUNICATIONS PLANNING FOR THE EVENT BEGINS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE
PREVIOUS YEARS EVENT, AND INVOLVES AMATEUR RADIO COORDINATION THROUGHOUT
THE YEAR WITH PLANNING SESSIONS.  ONE OF OUR MEMBERS, CHIP FILER, KE5KNX,
IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE HHH ORGANIZATION, AND DAVID GAINES, N5DHG,
IS A PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE HHH STEERING COMMITTEE FOR OVERALL
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