SEC REPORT FOR July 2010 (INDIANA)
SEC REPORT FOR JULY 2010 (INDIANA)
NUMBER OF ARES MEMBERS (REPORTED): 1112
MEMBERSHIP CHANGE (REPORTED): 5
NUMBER OF DEC/EC/OES REPORTS RECEIVED: 65
NUMBER OF APPOINTEES NOT REPORTING: 4- N9YNF DEC District 07, KC9GUY EC Steuben County,
WE1RD EC Wayne County and K9EJS EC Whitley County.
DEC's REPORTING: W8OCG District 01, K9RFZ District 03, N9DVL District 05, N1ESB District
06, WB9FHP District 08, WB9EFH District 10,
EC's REPORTING: AB9SO Adams County, K9RFZ Allen County, N9CJT Bartholomew County, WB9HLA
Blackford County, N9BEC Boone County, K9VM Brown County, N9TV Clark County, W9EEU Clay
County, KC9IIS Clinton County, W9BLA Dearborn County, KC9YY Dekalb County, KC9MDX Delaware
County, KC9CDS Elkhart County, N9TU Fayette County, N9LJA Gibson County, N9GTL Grant
County, K9PS Greene County, WA0JTL Hamilton County, N9MOX Hancock County, W9WXN Harrison
County, W8QHV Hendricks County, N9LRO Howard County, KC9MVK Jackson County, KC9EJL Jasper
County, KC9RLC Jennings County, N9SIU Johnson County, N1LL Kosciusko County, KC9GFO
LaPorte County, KC9JIG Lawrence County, N1HQH Marion County, K9KRT Marshall County, KB9RVB
Monroe County, N9JPX Morgan County, WB9FHP Orange County, K9EOH Owen County, W8OCG Porter
County, N9NDS Putnam County, N9CZV Randolph County, WY9L Ripley County, N9TAG Saint Joseph
County, WR9G Scott County, KB9ZYC Shelby County, W9DRB Spencer County, KD9U Starke County,
N9GKE Tippecanoe County, WB9EFH Vanderburgh County, W9COD Vermillion County, KB9JLR Vigo
County, N9WVM Wabash County, KT9B Warrick County, N9RMW Washington County, AB9HP Wells
County,
OES's REPORTING: WB9YBI Allen County, W9WXN Harrison County, NN7C Marion County, W9AL
Starke County, KB9JLR Vigo County, WC9AR Whitley County,
NUMBER OF LOCAL EMERGENCY NETS ACTIVE: 47
NUMBER OF NETS WITH NTS LIAISON: 21
TOTAL NUMBER OF NET SESSIONS, DRILLS/TESTS THIS MONTH: 146
TOTAL PERSON-HOURS REPORTED: 1027.67
PUBLIC SERVICE EVENTS REPORTED: 13
TOTAL PERSON-HOURS REPORTED: 709
EMERGENCY NETS REPORTED: 20
TOTAL PERSON-HOURS REPORTED: 209
TOTAL NUMBER OF ARES OPERATIONS THIS MONTH: 179
TOTAL PERSON-HOURS REPORTED: 1945.67
IN ARES SECTION NET
07/25/2010 QNI-18 QTR-21
IN ARES SECTION DIGITAL NET
07/2010 3 SESSIONS
COMMENTS
We had a many changes this month and I want to thank Spencer Gibbs N9DVL for accepting the
DEC 5 appointment. I also want to welcome 5 new EC, Ken Sullivan N1HQH Marion County, Rory
Bond KC9MDX Delaware County, David Spence KB9VTK Noble County, Travis Vetters W8QHV
Hendricks County and Jason Knowles KC9CVL Posey County.
Reminder all appointee’s should sign up for the INARES yahoo group.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Inares/
From the look of the comments I received from the ECs, most counties checked into the IDHS
Statewide net.
HAMFESTS
08/15/2010
Location: Lafayette, IN
Sponsor: Tippecanoe Amateur Radio Association
Website: http://w9reg.org/hamfest/index.htm
08/21/2010
Location: Osgood, IN
Sponsor: Ripley County Amateur Radio Club
Website: http://www.rcarc.ripleycounty.net
Location: La Porte, IN
Sponsor: Porter County Amateur Radio Club
Website: http://www.pcarc.net
08/28/2010
Location: Spencer, IN
Sponsor: Owen County ARA & Bloomington ARC
Website: http://www.owencountyara.org/images/OwenMonroe2009.pdf
INARES Digital Net - We are doing an ARES Digital Net Olivia 8/500, on the 1st and 3rd
Mondays of the month and on the Tuesday the 2nd and 4th week of the month.
The Time will be at 9 pm Indy time on 3583USB (centered on 1000 Hz) everyone is welcome.
Larry Jones WB9FHP is in charge of it and you can ask him any questions about the net
contact him at wb9fhp@verizon.net
ARES NET
The 4th Sunday of the every month there is an ARES nets 8:00 AM Indy Time on or around
3.910. The ARES nets are for you (ECs/DECs) to share your groups’ information and
your success with the entire STATE. All ECs/DECs should want to share their experiences;
it’s your time to brag. So I encourage all of you to checkin and express yourself.
MORE COMMENTS
WA0JTL Hamilton Co: Hams assisted with the HC EMA information booth at the HC 4H Fair.
Hamilton Co hams participated in the IDHS State Test on July 17 with a local net and
checkins with W9SEM with reports.
KB9RVB Monroe Co: ARES-RACES participated in the statewide RACES test, checking in 18
operators. RACES reported to the state on W9WIN and through the EMA's WebEOC utility with
the County EM Director. ARES EC KB9RVB participated with EMA and Red Cross in a planning
session to set up protocols for notification of volunteer communications needs and for
creating training opportunities for disaster assessment for each entity. EC also
participated in the monthly Red Cross Emergency Services meeting. Monroe County ARES-RACES
continued to assist with recruiting for the Red Eye Relay which became a Bloomington
ARC-supported event this summer but which continues to provide an opportunity for
emergency communications training. Emergency committee member KC9EVU met with EC KB9RVB
and assistant ECs KB9UVW and KB9RNB to discuss net operations training as well as to plan
training on Olivia for more operators.
EC KB9RVB and assistant ECs KB9UVW and KB9RNB met with KB9LGS to assist with planning the
location for 2011 Field Day. BARC and IUARC have expressed interest in varying the
location. Monroe County ARES-RACES congratulates out-going Marion County ARES EC N9FEB for
his outstanding service to amateur radio. His assistance with Monroe County training
activities over the years has been valued and helpful. Stay in touch with us southerners,
Mike!
W9WXN Harrison Co: We activated Skywarn nets twice this month. We held four regular nets.
We participated in RACES statewide drill. Held ARES quarterly meeting to discuss simulated
emergency test coming up in October.
KC9IIS Clinton Co: Last month Clinton County ARES spent the week of July 11-17 at the
Clinton County Fair. We had a nice booth explaining what we were all about. We talked to
many people over the course of the week that was interested in Ham Radio. We handed out
many brochures and had a 40 Meter HF station running along with a 2 Meters running on one
of the Indy repeaters. We signed up enough people to hold a Tech class in the county
coming up in August.
WY9L Ripley County: ARES has become affiliated with the Ripley County Amateur Radio Club
(RCARC). We will be applying for 501(C) 3 non profit status soon so we can apply for
grants. The only training we have coming up is a 911 map reading class & then the
annual SET for ARES in October.
N9LRO Howard Co: RACES/ARES members assisted Howard County EMA with dispatch activities at
the Howard County 4-H Fair. We conducted 2 severe weather nets during the month. We also
completed installation of a beam at the EOC to facilitate Packet communications with the
State EOC.
AB9SO Adam Co: We completed a new Ham Tech class this month. We then sponsored a test
session at Swiss Days in Berne with 3 students getting their Tech license. We also setup a
display booth, in conjunction with our county EMA group and CERT team, at the county 4H
fair. We passed out fliers on Ham radio and ARES as well as gave away 5 weather radios
donated by our EMA office.
KC9CDS Elkhart Co: We provided communications for the Elkhart County 4H Fair Parade again
this year. We had 11 operators stationed along the parade route.
K9RFZ Allen Co: ARES supported the monthly DHS Tornado Siren test by monitoring our 5
assigned locations. We completed the final ARES/RACES training module as ARES EC K9RFZ
presented the unit on personal emergency preparedness. Assistant EC KB9WWM also presented
an overview of the newly formed digital operation team. Workshops and hands on training
sessions will be scheduled in the next couple of months for interested members. The
training will concentrate on developing proficiency in VHF packet operation and HF PSK31
mode initially. Digital mode traffic handling will be emphasized in the training with the
goal of building a team of operators with portable digital mode stations that can be
deployed to served agencies and area hospitals to speed up traffic handling between
locations with the most critical formal traffic needs.
N9BEC Boone Co: ARES members were requested to assist again this year with July 4th parade
and we had 3 severe weather nets this month...We are getting ready to start another TECH
class the 14th of September for more info go to www.bcara.
Tony Langer W9AL
Indiana Section Emergency Coordinator
8530 S 100E
North Judson, Indiana
46366-8458
(Home) 574 896 3510
(Cell) 574 249 8050
w9al@arrl.net
indianasec@gmail.com
http://w9al.us
http://www.inarrl.org/inares_index.html
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Exerpt From
SEC REPORT FOR JUNE 2005 (INDIANA)
One issue that I have noted that there is a lot of confusion or
interpretations of how events are logged on the report. The biggest
example is Skywarn Activities and the under standing of what a Public
service event is. While all activities including emergency operations
are a "public service" they have specific filing locations on the
current form FSD-212 based on the actual event. To the best of my
ability and in consultation with the ARRL here is how the figures
should be entered on the form.
Local Net Name and Number of Sessions: This should reflect your local
net operations that are regular nets. For example if you or your ARES
team manages / hosts a net that meets every Sunday at 1320UTC and there
is 4 sundays in a month, you would report the net name and 4 Sessions
here. Do not count special or ad-hoc nets such as skywarn here.
Drills: This should reflect the number of sessions of your regular net
and any training exercises that your group participated in this for the
month. This would include Table Top and Mock Disaster Exercises for
example. Additionally if you had a training session for the ARES
personnel you would include this here. Some training examples are
Weather Spotting, Red Cross Procedures, NTS message handling and so
forth. Also if you as the EC or your team spent time in planning
meetings for events.
Public Service Events: This is centered around reporting events such
as Parades, Festivals, Public Displays, Marathons, Walks, Triathlons
and so forth.
Emergency Operations: This is where to report any active events that
were participated in were actual or potential loss of life or damage to
property occurred. This includes Skywarn Nets, Red Cross disaster
Operations, Search and Rescue operations, Flood Monitoring, etc.
Additionally the Person-Hours should reflect, to the best of your
ability, the total person time spent in support of the event. This can
be done very simply. For example if you have a 30 minute net with 25
checkins, you would multiply the number of minutes by the number of
checkins and then divide by 60 to convert to hours (30X25)/60 or 12.5
Person Hours. This assumes everyone was in the net and participating
the entire time. If you attend a planning meeting for 2 hours, you
would report 2 person hours for that event.
When you total out the report use the figures for Drills, Public
Service Events and Emergency Operations for the period.
As complicated or as cumbersome as this appears, these numbers are
used by the ARRL to help demonstrate the activity and justify Amateur
Radio to various Government and private organizations. The more data we
have the better. Regardless of how active you ARES group is please fill
out the report.
Simulated Emergency Test is coming up soon. While no specific plans
have yet been made for this year at the Section Level. You need to
start planning for it now. The Official SET weekend is October 1,2 but
you may hold your SET any time between September 1 and November 30 to
tie into you local served agencies.
So that I still have something to talk about at the Indianapolis
Hamfest, I better stop here. Until next month.
73,
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David L. Pifer - N9YNF
Amateur Radio Emergency Service and ARES are
registered Trade Marks of the American Radio Relay
League, Inc. and is used with permission.
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