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ALERT: Sun, October 18, 2009; 11:14 PM ET Section Events
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News last updated: Tue, November 17, 2009 at 11:56 PM ET
In this edition, Jon Morris, KAØJGG, continues his discussion on emergency planning. Before that, however, some news. I've received many emails from people with concerns and thoughts about D-Star. I very much appreciate those. As we get our act together, Jon and I will be making visits throughout the state (probably early next year). We'll have a chance to interact and figure out how to resolve concerns and, hopefully, come up with an even better solution to state-wide emergency support than the prototype we are working on.
Many of you were around, like I was, when that Donald Duck SSB mode replaced the irreplaceable AM. Bands were segregated and woe to the ham who broadcast in AM on the SSB portion of the band or visa versa. I miss AM. But AM is gone and SSB has made communications easier and more reliable. I hope the digital voice/data evolution will turn out the same.
Before I turn the column over to Jon, let me wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving. Despite financial problems and political concerns and worries of all sorts, we have much to be thankful for. America is still a place that holds a dream for us and for people all over the world. And I am thankful to my fellow hams for being there when the need arises. Your turn, Jon. . . .
Last month we talked about some specific problems we have in emergency planning.
The Failure to Plan and the more common failure to test the plan. A viable plan is one that has been repeatedly tested under varying conditions. There really was a current plan in place in New Orleans prior to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster but, it had never been fully tested. They planned for a maximum of a category 3 hurricane in their plan. Without sounding like I am kicking them when their down, It seems to me that if you write a plan, it must address as bad a circumstance as can be imagined. If you don't its like not having ladder trucks in a city fire department hoping you never have a structure fire. If you have a communication's plan for your area, you need to test it under whatever realistic circumstances that are possible to simulate. Power outage, high winds, blizzard, earthquake or whatever disaster is common and most likely for your area should be the test of your initial plan. Then try varied conditions for your plan that may happen.
Failure to communicate and no means of communication. Last month I mentioned that an emergency communications plan is designed to provide a means to set a chain of events in motion. If your initial alerting process is dependent on commercial infrastructure for cellular phone, pagers, commercial power, you're asking for a plan failure. No one method provides a solution in this case. The solution depends on how your group is organized, what resources you have and how important your response is to the community disaster response. Here is one example, paraphrased from a Washington ARES web page: The XXXXX county ARES plan is initiated via a land line telephone (not cordless) to alert critical personnel at their designated telephone numbers. Simultaneously the district emergency coordinator will broadcast on 146.550 MHz direct a two tone alert page that will open the receivers for the ARES rapid response teams and the ARES prime responders. Regardless of how they are alerted, the notified personnel will concentrate their efforts and responding to the designated staging point and alerting more group personnel through the 146.55 MHz page and if there is no telephone connectivity and the radio pages are not responded to, the alerting officers will designate an individual to go by ground transportation to notify those individuals. ARES members who are aware of the emergency situation but, have not been notified should attempt to contact the district emergency coordinator on telephone or via the 146.55 MHz VHF network. If all else fails, the rally point for all ARES prime responders is the XXXXX High School at 14th and Main Plaza. ARES Rapid Response Team One will go directly to the XXXXXXX county EOC and report to the EOC duty officer. The primary duty is to re-establish a workable support communication network to coordinate further operations. Besides providing an interesting alerting method, this group has a rapid response team which consists of five radio amateurs who report to the local EOC and are tasked to establish a field communications support site where ever they are needed. The ARES prime responders are five ARES members who have predesignated points to respond to at the hospital, main fire station, and local airport to establish a communications net on their local ARES UHF repeater or direct simplex for command and coordination purpose. All plans of this type require an inventive means to reliably alert your personnel whether or not you have telephone service, cellular service, Internet, or electricity. Next month we will talk about local, regional and state plan organization. Please feel free to contact me.
Jon Morris, KAØJGG, jclarkmorris@gmail.com
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Until next month, 73,
Art Zygielbaum, KØAIZ
ARRL Nebraska Section Manager
Section Traffic Manager and Section Emergency Coordinator
Net Reports - October 2009
* Net Report Legend: Sessions=Number of times net called, QNI=Number of Station Check-ins, QTC=Formal Traffic Count
Nebraska 40 Meter Net
Sessions 25, QNI 221, QTC 2
Reported by KW0R
Nebraska Cornhusker Net
Sessions 30, QNI 458, QTC 12
Reported by K0CWW
Nebraska Morning Phone Net
Sessions 31, QNI 1535, QTC 31
Reported by KA0DOC
Nebraska Storm Net
Sessions 31, QNI 1624, QTC 6
Reported by WY0F
West Nebraska Net
Sessions 27, QNI 1369, QTC 64
Reported by K0RRL
Dodge County ARES
Sessions 4, QNI 34, QTC 0
Reported by KC0KKE
Mid Nebraska ARES 2-Meter Net
Sessions 12, QNI 146, QTC 2
Reported by KC0MWM
NPPARC
Sessions 3, QNI 17, QTC 0
Reported by W0DED
Platte Valley 2-Meter Net
Sessions 4, QNI 43, QTC 2
Traffic Totals:
K0PTK: 120
Public Service Honor Roll
(Please visit http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/pshr/ for more information about the honor roll.)
KAØDBK 143 points
KBØYTM 36 points
Nebraska Section Nets
Net name |
Frequency |
Meets |
Time CDT |
Time UTC |
40 Meter Net |
7.282 |
Daily |
1300 |
1800 |
Cornhusker Net |
3.982 |
Daily |
1230 |
1730 |
CW Traffic Net |
3.540 |
M-F |
1900 |
0000 |
Morning Phone Net |
3.982 |
Daily |
0730 |
1230 |
Storm Net |
3.982 |
Daily |
1830 |
2330 |
West Nebraska Net |
3.950 |
M-S |
0700 |
1200 |
Notes from the Section Traffic Manager:
Thanks to those who have checked in to the Tenth Regional.
Please report your individual traffic monthly totals to me at my email address
I welcome your comments and suggestions.
Mike, NF0N
OFFICIAL OBSERVER REPORTS
| KAØJTI | 20 hours |
| WØHXL | 75 hours |
| KBØZZT | 40 hours |
| KE6DZD | 125 hours |
| W3PRR | 0 hours (on travel) |
| WØDED | 25 hours |
| WBØMWB | 48 hours |
| WBØCMC | 45 hours |
| KEØXQ | 100 hours |
**********SPECIAL EVENTS STATION**********
(none listed - please send KØAIZ your announcements!)
WEB PAGES
AKSARBEN ARC http://www.aksarbenarc.org/main/
Amateur Radio Association of Nebraska (used to be: Hastings ARC) http://www.w0wwv.org
Ashland ARC http://ashlandarc.org/
Bellevue ARC http://www.bellevuearc.org
Boyer Valley Amateur Radio Club (IA) http://www.bvarc.net
Buffalo County ARES http://www.bcares.info
Buzzards Roost Amateur Radio Club http://www.frontiernet.net/~teroth/
Douglas County ARES http://www.qsl.net/dcares/
Elkhorn Valley ARC http://www.qsl.net/evarc
Grand Island ARS http://www.incolor.inetnebr.com/gihams/
Heartland Amateur Radio Association http://www.hara-w0sok.org
Heartland DX Association http://www.hdxa.net
Lincoln ARC http://www.lincolnarc.org
Midway ARC http://wØky.kearney.net/
Midwest Home Brewer's & QRP Group http://www.qsl.net/hbqrp
Nebraska EMA http://www.nema.ne.gov/
Pine Ridge ARC http://www.pineridgearc.org/
Pioneer Amateur Radio Club http://www.k0jfn.com
Strategic Air Command Memorial ARC http://www.sacmarc.org/
Quarter Century Wireless Association http://www.qcwa.org/
Society of Wireless Pioneers http://www.sowp.org/
South East Nebraska Radio Club http://www.senrc.farmpond.net
Tri-City ARC http://www.galka.org/ec
1Ø-1Ø International http://www.ten-ten.org/
Other Links of Interest
ARRL DX Bulletins http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/dx/
ARRL Propagation Bulletins http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/prop/
ARRL Keplarian Elements http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/kep/
ARRL Transmission Schedule http://www.arrl.org/w1aw.html#w1awsked
ARRL General and Special Bulletins http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/
ARRL Emergency Communications http://www.emergency-radio.org
SICK CALL
These are Amateur Radio Operators who are ill and need our support. Please send get well cards or QSL cards with your best wishes on them as they recover from their illnesses or surgeries. I will post along with their names what they are recovering from only with the permission of the families or the member themselves.
We wish a continued speedy recovery to Mike Wasserstein, KBØDNP, who underwent heart valve replacement surgery recently. Mike is now at home recupperating. Mike is a Lincoln Amateur Radio Club Board Member. We miss his cheerful, wise, and supporting participation at our meetings..
SILENT KEYS
While we celebrate the friends that they were, it is with sadness that we recognize the loss of these hams from our fold.
2009
WØCQQ - William "Bill" Welch
WDØEYF - David Wesley Britton
WAØFRT - Bob Johnson
WØIXF - Milton "Milky" S. Berg
WBØWFS - Betty Hernes
WØURC - John Herron
KCØYRS - Tim Beaver
2008
WBØQPP - Scott E. Perrson
WØRMB - Cecil D. DeWitt
WDØCJH - Norma Rickel
KØFRU - Harold Detour
KBØZHC - Ralph Orahood
WAØRPW - Mac Reed
WBØEGK - Jerry Kohn
NØLAL and NØUS - Carolyn and Steven Baily
WEB RESOURCES
HAMFESTS AND CONVENTIONS
Nebraska Section Convention: http://www.lincolnhamfest.org
VE TESTS
When attending a VE session, make sure you bring the following: your original license, a photocopy of your original license, 2 forms of identification (one with a photograph of you), any CSCE's and $14.ØØ cash or check.
NEBRASKA
http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/examsearch.phtml?State=NE
IOWA
http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/examsearch.phtml?State=IA
NOTICE
You may reprint items from this webpage/newsletter without prior permission if attribution to this source is provided.
Art Zygielbaum KØAIZ
ARRL Nebraska Section Manager
k0aiz@arrl.org
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