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ARRIVING.  ONCE GIVEN THE ORDER TO RELOCATE AND ESTABLISH THE STAGING AREA,
WE DID SO JUST AS 168 RESPONDERS ARRIVED.  IT WAS PRETTY HECTIC, BUT ALL
TASKS WERE ACCOMPLISHED COMMUNICATIONS WAS REESTABLISHED, RADIOS AND PPE
WERE ISSUED AND THE STAGING AREA WAS OPE
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K0QQ/357 K1BD/348 K1NY/350 K2EWB/351 K2PLF/346 K2SGH/348 K2UFM/357 K2UO/349

LARGE SCALE INCIDENTS.  IF THIS ENTIRE EVENT HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT INSIDE
MARION COUNTY, LOCAL HAMS WOULD HAVE HAD AT LEAST EIGHT VHF AND TEN UHF
REPEATERS TO USE, NOT TO MENTION SIMPLEX COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO COVER
INCIDENT COMMAND IC TO EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER EOC OPERATIONS.  OUR NEW
IC THIS TIME WAS 65 MILES AWAY FROM THE EOC.  A RECON WAS PERFORMED EARLY
ON TO FIND OUT WHAT REPEATERS WOULD PROVIDE COVERAGE FROM MARION COUNTY TO
JENNINGS COUNTY AND YET PROVIDE OTHER PARTICIPATING COUNTIES AND CAMP
ATTERBURY WHERE THE FORWARD JOINT OPERATIONS CENTER FJOC WAS LOCATED.
THERE WERE ONLY A FEW REPEATERS THAT MET THESE REQUIREMENTS SHELBY,
BARTHOLOMEW, JOHNSON, AND MARION COUNTIES.  BUT ONE REPEATER SYSTEM STOOD
OUT AMONG THE REST, THE W9WIN LINKED REPEATER SYSTEM.  THIS VHF/UHF LINKED
SYSTEM HAS COVERAGE OVER MOST OF CENTRAL TO SOUTHERN INDIANA, SO IT WAS
USED AS THE PRIMARY COMMUNICATIONS LINK, BUT NOT THE ONLY LINK.  MIKE,
N9FEB, WROTE THE COMMUNICATIONS PLAN TO INCLUDE UHF, FM, VHF AND SSB,
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F6FWW/342 G3KMA/361 G3NDC/349 G3UML/367 G4BWP/345 G4IUF/343 G4SOZ/336
GW3CDP/348 HB9BZA/343 HB9CIP/341 HB9RG/351 HS1NGR/336 I0EKY/343 I0OLK/362
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PUBLIC SERVICE ARDENT SENTRY 07 MIKE PALMER, N9FEB MICHAEL R. PALMER, N9FEB
EC, MARION COUNTY, INDIANA N9FEB ARRL. NET  IN NOVEMBER 2006, THE STATE OF
INDIANA AND LOCAL AGENCIES FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN AREA, IN
CONJUNCTION WITH THE HOMELAND SECURITY DISTRICT TASK FORCE 7, BEGAN
PLANNING FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSES ARDENT SENTRY/NORTHERN EDGE
EXERCISE.  THE EXERCISE IS AN INTERNATIONAL ONE THAT INCLUDED SCENARIOS ON
THE EAST COAST, ALASKA, CANADA AND INDIANA.  THE SCENARIO IN INDIANA
INVOLVED A TERRORIST ATTACK UTILIZING A 10 KILOTON IMPROVISED NUCLEAR
DEVICE IN A SIMULATED PORTION OF MARION COUNTY.  THE 72 HOUR EXERCISE
STARTED ON MAY 10, 2007, AND MIKE PALMER, N9FEB, ARRL EMERGENCY COORDINATOR
OF MARION COUNTY AND VOLUNTEER STAFF MEMBER OF MARION COUNTY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT, WAS THE AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNICATIONS LEADER.  MARION COUNTY
MAINTAINED THE PRIMARY INCIDENT COMMAND BECAUSE THE SIMULATED DISASTER
HAPPENED IN THEIR COUNTY.  THE OTHER PARTICIPATING COUNTIES WERE BOONE,
HAMILTON, HENDRICKS, HANCOCK, JOHNSON AND SHELBY.  THERE ARE MUTUAL AID
AGREEMENTS IN PLACE THAT DESCRIBE HOW EACH COUNTY SUPPORTS THE OTHER IN
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WB6RSE/347 WD5DBV/348 WQ7B/342 XE1AE/378 XE1L/348 XE1ZLW/342 YS1RR/357
ZL1AMO/358 336 AA4S/356 AA5AT/342 AA6YQ/341 AC8G/347 CT1BWW/340 DF4PL/343
DJ2BW/378 DJ2TI/352 DJ4XA/351 DJ6VM/360 EA4DX/342 EA5AT/342 EA6NB/342
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