[bars] SIMULATED EMERGENCY EXERCISE: Saturday, November 9th @ 10:00AM

[shawn dodds1.com]

[the logo for eastern ma ares with eastern MA behind the ARRL symbol] Eastern MA ARES Fall Exercise 2024!

When:  Saturday, November 9 2024, 10:00AM - 12:00pm

What: The Eastern MA Section Amateur Radio Emergency Service<https://ema.arrl.org/ares/> will conduct a fall operations exercise to test its capability in establishing communications with stations within its section and outside it under simulated emergency conditions. The operational exercise called November Gale will test the ability of several home stations, EOCs, possible field sites and other stations to communicate. The exercise will attempt to build upon the lessons learned from our past operational exercises.  The scenario: The remnants of a tropical storm became a powerful hybrid system, leading to extensive power outages throughout eastern MA, coastal flooding on cape cod, and widespread ice damage in western and central MA.

Who: The North Middlesex ARES district will be operating for the VHF voice portion of the exercise. If you are interested in the section-wide exercise details, check out the latest news posted on the Eastern MA ARES<https://ema.arrl.org/> site.

Any amateur radio operator is welcome to join this exercise, even if you're not part of ARES, or a SKYWARN spotter, or haven't participated in a net before. Newcomers welcome!

Where: WB1GOF <http://www.wb1gof.org/repeaters/> Westford MA FM Repeater: 146.955mhz- tone: 74.4

How:
1.      Net control will announce the start of the drill and its purpose starting at 10am, then 10:30am, 11:00am, and 11:30am.
2.      Net control will ask for callsigns first, only callsigns, from any amateur radio operator that has a pretend SKYWARN damage report to share. When the repeater is free, give your callsign (preferably in phonetics). No other info is needed for this step.
3.      Once nothing more is heard, net control will call each individual callsign and ask for their report.
1.      When your callsign is called, please respond with: First name, affiliation if any (SKYWARN, ARES, RACES, none), your town, location of simulated severe weather damage, and short description of simulated storm damage. This is a drill, so feel free to be creative and make stuff up! Power outages, ice damage, trees into houses, etc.
4.      Net control will check for any additional stations, and once nothing more is heard, will close the net on the repeater until the next half hour.
Additional info:

The section-wide ARES exercise will be running from 10am-12pm as well. You are welcome to participate in any other aspects of this exercise if you can!

There's lots of options for different bands and different modes:

  *   10am-12pm: Voice check-in on any repeater linked in the MMRA Network<https://www.mmra.org/>
  *   10am-12pm: Interested in trying to pass messages on the Eastern MA National Traffic System (NTS<https://nts2.arrl.org/>) net? Listen in to the 145.230-Boston Repeater (pl 88.5 hz) during this exercise and participate if you can.
  *   10am-12pm: Send your own ICS-213 form (skywarn damage report) over Winlink to "WX1BOX"
  *
  *   10am-12pm: check-in on the special edition of the MA/RI Digital Ne<https://ema.arrl.org/massachusetts-rhode-island-digital-net/>t (MARIDN) NBEMS net on 80m, starting at 3582.5khz (1500 khz center) in Thor 22 mode. May move to 7042.5khz USB if conditions on 80m aren't working well.
  *   10:30am: check-in on 80 meters voice net (3930khz and up depending on what's open)
  *   10am-11:30am: Check-in on echolink <https://www.echolink.org/> on the *NEW-ENG3* conference node (9123)
  *   11:30am: check-in on the 6-meter voice net on 53.31mhz-Mount Wachusetts Repeater pl71.9
Thanks! Hope to hear you on the air on Saturday.


73,
Shawn - N1CVO

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