MONTGOMERY COUNTY

AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY SERVICE®

OHIO SECTION  DISTRICT 3

Announcements

Meeting Schedule for 2017

January  31 - Planning Meeting

February 28 - General Membership Meeting. Hands Only CPR Training.

March 28 - Planning Meeting

April 25 -  General Membership Meeting. Presentations on Red Cross Reunification Program by Shawna Collins N2TUJ and

Military Affiliate Radio System by Les Dershem K9CAV.

May 23 - Planning Meeting. Moved from last Tuesday of the month due to the holiday.

June 27 - General Membership Meeting. Presentation on Terrorism Awareness by Don Parker KB8PSL

July 25 - Planning Meeting

August 29 - General Membership Meeting. Presentation on CERT by Laurie Rohrbach

September 26 - Planning Meeting

October 24 - General Membership  Meeting. Rescheduled due to Halloween. Presentation on APRS by Glenn Gombert KD8TSR

November 28 - Planning Meeting

December - No Meeting.

From Kroger

Dear Montgomery County Amateur Radio Emergency Service,

The Kroger Family of Stores is committed to bringing hope and help to local communities. We do this through a variety of activities, including charitable giving, sponsorships and the unique Community Rewards Program of Kroger. We are also committed to carefully protecting our customers' personal information. In order to meet their expectation of privacy, we have adopted a simple policy to never share a customer's personal information. Our privacy policy applies to Community Rewards participation as well. As your neighborhood food retailer, we deeply value our ability to support local organizations like yours.

Your supporters (12 households) who shopped at Kroger between 5-1-2017 and 7-31-2017 (Cycle 6, Qtr 1) have contributed to your $54.47 total donation. Your organization will be receiving a Kroger check in this amount within 30 days from 8-24-2017. If you have any questions, please email cincinnaticommunityrewards@kroger.com or visit our website at www.krogercommunityrewards.com. Thank you for your continued support of your local Kroger store.

From Stan Broadway, N8BHL, Ohio Section Emergency Coordinator

Hello all!  I hope you had a chance to listen or follow Hurricane Harvey. It, and the coming Hurricane Irma will put our nation’s ability to handle large disasters to a real test.  Even though commercial/public service communications has been hardened, amateur radio is still playing a large part in these responses.  Our job in Ohio, as elsewhere, is to be ~ready~.   In order to test ourselves, we need to participate in the ARRL Simulated Emergency Test (SET) this October.

The Ohio Section’s ASEC Matt Curtin, KD8TTE, has put hours into this year’s exercise, called “Black Swan”.  With it, we are setting new records for scope and participation- it is to my knowledge the first time multiple states and multiple agencies have been involved in an SET. Our involvement stretches all the way to Alaska and Europe!

Our scenario is something that could happen: a derecho type storm system sweeps across several Midwest states leaving destruction and loss of communication in its wake.   Much of amateur radio’s activity will involve sending messages, both sitreps to and from our players and H&W messaging from all over the world. Matt has designed this for multiple traffic organizations, the military and for every county that plays. In the Black Swan “Explan”, you will find a timetable which you can adapt to your county’s activity during that weekend.  You are encouraged to use this as a base, and build on it!  The job of the EC is to be familiar with the county, its potentials during disasters and its likely actions to cope. You are encouraged to deploy people to specific locations, to generate messages to and from critical points in your county, and generally keep people active. The Explan timetable will help.

Matt is managing a website to publish the Conops, Explan, news and FAQ’s as needed for Black Swan. PLEASE go here to download the documents and get the most up-to-date documentation for SET:   http://sites.google.com/view/blackswan/2017    Under “2017” get CONOPS and INFO PACKET.

REGISTER as a  player in the exercise to make sure you’re included in message traffic and planning!!

I am very excited about this- you’ll see that the planning and documentation is thorough, and I expect that we will help you keep your people busy and interested and better prepared for “The Big One”.

From Laurie Rohrbach

Disaster Preparedness Training - Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) 

Sponsored by the German Twp. Police Department and the Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management

From Brian Dershem KG8UT

The Operations Manual has been revised. The changes are in sections 6.9 (Clothing/Uniforms) and 10.3 (Net Operations.)

Clothing/Uniforms has been changed to reflect the language and format of other recent revisions. The specific requirements of this section have not changed.  Net Operations has been changed to reflect a revision in the 80m frequency used by W8SGT and the addition of a 60m frequency used by W8SGT.

From Stan Broadway, Ohio ARES Section Coordinator

From Shawna Collins

From Dave Crawford

Multiple races are held on this day including:  10K, Half Marathon, Full Marathon, and Wheelchair. Now is the time to volunteer for the USAF Marathon.  If you will be in the Dayton, Ohio area on Saturday, September 16, 2017 and would like to take part in a world class event, please go to the USAF Marathon website at http://www.usafmarathon.com/  and click the volunteer now link, scroll down to the amateur radio section to register. Training will be provided prior to the event.