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VOLUME: XV No: 2
April 2012
2 Ohio Section News 3 Next Meeting Announcement 4 runCbus 4 Race for the Cure 5 Arnold 5k 6 Hams in Action 8 Arnold Sports Festival Wrap-up 10 EMCOMM—001 Columbus 11 EMCOMM—001 Zanesville 12 COARES Activities
EC NOTES Kal Dworkin, KA8RLC
ARRL EC—Franklin County
Each day there seems to be more events being added to our schedule. Many volunteers are needed for these upcoming events. Whether you are a novice when it comes to events or a seasoned veteran, we have positions that you can fill and fellow hams that will lend their support. The important thing is to volunteer and provide a service to the public, a mission that is at the core of amateur radio. We continue to help FCEM&HS with the weekly testing of the Emergency Siren system. Our reports and feedback have enabled them to make excellent pro-gress with the project to convert the si-ren radios to narrow band. Anyone who has time on Wednesday‘s from 11:30 to 12:30, to help, let me know. On April Tuesday April 10
th, we will be
helping COTS with a hospital drill. As of this time there are 8 hospitals planning to participate. On Sunday April 15
th, we have two
events that we have been asked to help with. The first is RUNCBUS, a 10 mile run in Gahanna. KD8LUY is coordinat-ing. The second is the Hoover Hustle 5k/10k. KD8OAE is coordinating. With two events at the same time, we will need to have more of our volunteers to turn out. Two of our biggest events of the year happen in May. TOSRV 2012 This May we will be the 51st year for the mighty Tour of the
Scioto River Valley and COARES long-standing support for the event. Every Mother's Day weekend, COARES and hams from Pickaway, Ross, Pike and Scioto counties volunteer their time to watch over the riders as they travel the route between Columbus and Portsmouth. It takes about 70 people each day to cover all the positions, so signing up plenty of volunteers is a top priority. We can find positions for people that can only volun-teer a few hours on one day to those that want to play the entire weekend. Early-outs and other special arrangements can be made to fit everyone's availability. This is truly a "volunteer friendly" event and you will hear many words of thanks from the riders. If you have not worked TOSRV, it is a fun and easy event. Even if this is your very first event with COARES, you will find the assignments to be easy. To volunteer for TOSRV on May 12-13, contact me (Kal Dworkin, KA8RLC). We need lots of help and will work with you to find an assignment that matches your availability and preference. Please sign up early to help us plan for all of the assignments. Komen Race for the Cure will be on Satur-day May 19
th. This event gets bigger each
year, with over 40,000 participants expected. Contact Wayne Walls, KA8CEJ, to volunteer. There are also smaller events coming up on the schedule. Be sure to watch the event schedule on our web page and check into our Wednesday night net to find out details. Our next meeting is April 18th at Franklin County Emergency Management and Home-land Security. Start time is 7:30 pm. Hope to see you there. .
73,
Kal – KA8RLC
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Emergency Coordinator Kal Dworkin, KA8RLC
973 Venetian Way Gahanna, Ohio 43230
614-855-2607 [email protected]
Assistant Emergency Coordinators
Events Manager: Josh Stevens, KB8YQS 614-571-9393 e-mail: [email protected]
Net Manager: Kevin O‘Harra, KD8IIB 614-871-2000 e-mail: [email protected] Training Manager: Gretchen Herr, KD8GUL 614-323-9854 e-mail: [email protected] Financial Manager: Brent Sheffer, KC8UMV 614-818-9324 e-mail: ―callsign‖@insight.rr.com
Engineering Manager: Public Information Officer: Brent Sheffer, KC8UMV 614-818-9324 e-mail: ―callsign‖@insight.rr.com Database Manager: Ed Wiest, N8UTI 614–284-1101 email: [email protected] Hospital Antenna & Radio Testing Coordinator: Andy Elliott, K8LE 614-864-2922 e-mail: [email protected] Bulletin Editor: Josh Scott, KD8OLR 614-285-7779 e-mail: [email protected]
The COARES Bulletin Official Journal of the Central Ohio Amateur Radio Emergency Service, published monthly at Columbus, Ohio. Permission is granted for reproduction provided credit is given to the original author of the article. Please give credit to the individual who takes the time to write the article. When quoting or reprinting please give source credit. COARES retains the right to refuse or edit any article for any reason without prior notice.
Copyright 2012 Central Ohio ARES
Publishing Schedule The Bulletin is published the second week of each month. All items for the bulletin must be submitted by 1st day of the Month.
Repeaters Primary: K8DDG/R
147.060 +.600 444.800 +5.00
94.8 Hz CTCSS
Secondary: AA8EY/R 147.090 +.600
94.8 Hz CTCSS
UHF: WB8INY/R 444.275 +5.00
94.8 Hz CTCSS
Calling Tree Leaders - January to December Group 1A - Bruce Goll, KB8TRI (793-0164) Group 1B - Wayne Walls, KA8CEJ (431-9352) Group 2A - Homer Workman Sr.KD8LUY(563-6054) Group 2B - Jim Sage, WB8TWM (864-5011) Group 3A - Jim Clark, KC8TJX (855-1170) Group 3B - Josh Gould , KC8EQA (326-9839) Group 4A - Kevin O'Harra, KD8IIB (871-2000) Group 4B - Jerry Finnegan, KC5WLA (507-2788) Alternates: Mark Griggs, KB8YMN (272-8266) Chris Stevens, KC8PFD (327-6514) Doug Bell, N8HSU (937-323-2192)
Mike Fidler, KD8DYK (561-4137) William Biggs, KC8PDR (338-8837) Gayle Adams, KD8KWG (326-1069)
Ohio Section Update Frank Piper, KI8GW
Ohio Section Manager
Wednesday, March 13th. This month's training seg-
ment...Back to basics. Emergencies and disasters respect no one's schedule and have no respect for county, state, or section boundary lines. While there is no way one can be prepared for everything all the time, the following fundamentals will help you stay ahead of the game. Participate in ARES nets, meetings, trainings, drills, and exer-cises. Practice your traffic handling skills by checking into a local traffic net. Review your county ARES operations and communica-tions plans. Check your contact information on your county ARES roster. If you do not have these documents, please refer to your county ARES Emergency Coordinator.
Practice programming your radio including, but not limited to, PL tone, offset, and simplex frequencies.
What are we doing now? There are three major tasks being
worked on all at the same time for the Ama-teur Radio Emergency Service here in the Ohio Section. The first task it to collect FEMA training completion certificates from the Emergency Coordinators and the District Emergency Coordinators. Many have com-pleted the minimum required FEMA courses which are the IS-100, IS-200, IS-700, and IS-800. The EC's and DEC's have been asked
to submit their FEMA training completion cer-tificates to Training ASM John, N8GOU as soon as possible. In doing so, they helping us with the second task which is populating the Ohio Section Training Database. The Emer-gency Coordinators and District Emergency Coordinators have been given a specific set of instructions as to how the training certificates are to be submitted.
Once I am satisfied all EC's and DEC's have completed the minimum required training, we will be moving on to the next phase which is collecting training information from all ARES volunteers in an orderly fashion. Unless you are an Emergency Coordinator or District Emergency Coordinator, please do not submit your training information at this time. I recommend gathering your training documents and having them ready for when the time comes to collect them. Stay tuned for more details as they become available.
The third task is to develop a digital communications toolbox. We discovered at the Ohio Section ARES Leadership Conference on March 3rd that 90% of the 68 in attendance use Fldigi. So it was decided to use MT63 1K for HF with OLIVIA as an alternate. MT63 2K for VHF/UHF with PSK31 as an alternate. If you are unfamiliar Fldigi, it's a free software package that includes most of the popular
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Ohio Section Emergency Coordinator Matt Welch, W8DEC
12 Levan Drive Painsville, OH 44077
District Emergency Coordinator Scott Hixon, KC8ITN
22581 E. Ringgold S Rd. Stoutsville, OH 43154
The ARES logo is a registered service mark of the American Radio Relay League, and is used with permission of the ARRL. ―Amateur Radio Emer-gency Service‖® and ―ARES‖® are registered trademarks of the American Radio Relay League.
Central Ohio Amateur Radio Emergency Services, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit
organization. Contributions are tax deductible.
Nets & Meetings The COARES net meets Wednesday evenings at 8:00pm local time on the 147.06+ repeater, except for the third Wednesday of each month which is reserved for our General Meeting, held at the office of Franklin County Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
Ohio Section Notes for April 2012 In this issue: - Section ARES Updates - State House Happenings - Central Ohio Report SECTION ARES® UPDATES..
Many thanks to those volunteers who answered the call for help before, dur-ing, and after the tornadoes in SW Ohio. Check out www.arrl.org for the article about amateur radio support for the tornado out-breaks in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Travels... I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker at three recent meetings. Thank you to EC Clay Benner and Huron County ARES for their hospitality on Wednesday, February 29th. Thank you to Richland County EC Danny Bailey KB8STK and InterCity Ama-teur Radio Club for their hospitality on Fri-day, March 2nd. Thank you to EC Kathleen Frederico KB3RDR and Muskingum County ARES for hosting a District 9 meeting on
If you are reading a paper copy in black & white, you are welcome to view a color version of the Bulletin on our website at: www.coares.org
Ohio Section Website: http://www.arrlohio.org
COARES Organization HQ & Radio Room is located at:
WCVO 104.9 The River 881 E. Johnstown Rd. Gahanna, OH 43230
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Net Day Time (local) Frequency
Amateur Radio Club at Ohio State University Sunday 8:00 pm 442.6(+) (114.8PL)
CRES ARC Sunday Night Net Sunday 9—10 pm 146.67(-) (131.8 PL)
Delaware County Net Monday 8:00 pm 145.170 (-)
Lancaster / Fairfield County ARC Net Monday 9:00 pm 147.030 (+)
Central Ohio Severe Weather Net Tuesday (Mar ~ Oct) 7:30 pm 146.760 (-) (123.0 PL)
Madison County ―Get Together‖ Net Tuesday 8:00 pm 147.285 (+)
Newark ARA Net Tuesday 9:00 pm 146.880 (-)
Central Ohio ARES Wednesday 8:00 pm 147.060 (+) (94.8 PL)
Hocking Valley ARC Net Wednesday 9:00 pm 147.345 (+)
Southwest Columbus Ham Radio Club Net (Echolink connected)
Thursday 8:00 pm 145.23 (-)
Central Ohio Traffic Net Daily 7:15 pm 146.970 (-)
Next Meeting
7:30 pm, Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Franklin County Emergency
Management and Homeland Security
5300 Strawberry Farms Blvd Columbus, OH 43230
Our Mission: To provide emergency communications to central Ohio public safety, emergency, health, government and relief agencies in times of
disaster. To keep our skills sharp, we provide communication support for many public service events.
A Reminder Always check the COARES primary repeater (147.060 MHz) whenever a situation arises that might result in an emergency activation of COARES. This includes, but is not limited to, tor-
nado, flood, blizzard, hazardous materials spill, terrorist attack, fire, search and rescue (missing person), aircraft/mass casualty, setting up emergency shelters, or declared state of
emergency.
When All Else Fails - Amateur Radio Works!
Don’t forget to renew your membership in Kroger Community Rewards! Just visit www.krogercommunityrewards.com and click on “Columbus” and “Enroll”. The code for COARES is “84947”. You must re-enroll each year.
Please remember to notify our One Call Now Administrator (KD8IIB - Kevin O'Harra) of any changes in your phone numbers or email addresses that would affect how you are notified in the event of an emergency callout. Also, any new members that would like to be included in an emer-gency callout, please contact Kevin with your info. Please see the April 2011 bulletin for an article
explaining the system more fully.
Central Ohio Amateur Radio Emergency Service Page 4
Race for the Cure Wayne Walls, KA8CEJ
Event Coordinator
RunCBus10 Miler Homer Workman, KD8LUY
Event Coordinator
Mark Your Calendar, April 15, 2012 at 8:00 a.m. We have been asked to help out the 2nd running of the
Runcbus in Gahanna. Last year they had 1300 runners and walkers to the inaugural event.
The 2012 course will run differently then last years event travelling south on Hamilton before picking up the Gahanna Trail
system and looping the perimeter of the city. So if you can come out and help out with this run, come on out.
If you can help out.
Please send me an email at:
Thanks and 73s Homer
The 20
th annual Komen Columbus Race for the Cure will be held on Saturday, May 19
th in downtown Columbus.
Last year over 50,000 people raised more than 2.5 million dollars for research and prevention of breast cancer.
Starting at 8:00 A.M., there will be an elite 5K run followed by a 5K fun run, then the main 5K walk and a 1 mile family
walk. The course activities should conclude about 10:30. The route has been changed slightly this year. It starts at the City Hall and ends on High Street south of State Street near the Columbus Commons rather than the State House lawn.
We will be positioned at points along the course to provide for the safety of the walkers, assist with lost children, lost
items and other functions that arise on a large event.
A hand held radio and possibly an extra battery pack is all the equipment needed. About 30 people are needed to cover all the positions. To volunteer for this event, please email Wayne Walls, KA8CEJ, at [email protected] or
sign up at the April in person meeting. Volunteers will also be accepted on the Wednesday night nets.
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The weather this year was cold but we didn‘t have ice and snow we had last year. Temperatures was in 30‘s and just right for this years event. The first run started At 9:15 with 600 runners. Ar-nold showed up at 10:20 to start the 10:30 run. We had 800 run-ners for the second run. We had no problems on the course. Ed N8UTI and Gayle KD8JWG were acting as net control and did a great job. Would like to thank all that came out and helped out.
AA8JY, K8UB, KC8TJX, KC8UMV, W8RWR, KD8KSI, KD8KSJ, KD8GUL, KB8YMN, KA8CEJ, N8UTI, KD8KWG and KB8CMW
.
The holder of one of the best-known US Amateur Radio call signs, Frederick (Fred) Maia, W5YI, died of cancer Wednesday, March 28. He was 76 and was a resident of Arlington, Texas. Fred was a leading Amateur Radio jour-nalist for nearly 35 years and a pioneer of the volunteer examining program adopted by the FCC in 1984. Maia published "The W5YI Report," dubbed "America's Oldest Ham Radio Newsletter," from 1978 to 2003, and has been a CQ contributing editor since 1985. His regulatory affairs column, first titled "Ticket Talk," then "Washington Readout," offered news and perspective on FCC Regulations and ITU actions. His final column will appear in the May 2012 issue of CQ. After the FCC adopted volunteer examining for all levels of Amateur Radio licensing in 1984, Fred became the first Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (VEC) appointed by the FCC. Fred subsequently founded The W5YI Group in 1986 to develop, publish and sell amateur and commercial radio license study materials. In the realm of FCC commercial radio licensing, Fred formed National Radio Examiners to provide examination services. Maia served as President of the W5YI-VEC until his retirement in October of 2000 when he sold The W5YI Group study material products to Master Publishing, Inc. The retail operations were purchased by General Manager Larry Pollock, NB5X, newly appointed President of the W5YI-VEC and National Radio Examiners organizations. Mai con-tinued writing "The W5YI Report" newsletter until July 2003. A graduate of the US Air Force Radio Operators School, Fred was an avid CW operator. He was first licensed as a teenager as W1NTK in Brockton, Massachusetts, where he grew up. Maia was later licensed as W5UTT, and held DXCC CW awards and EU-PX-A CW. He was a member of QCWA and Life Member of the ARRL. For several decades, Maia also served on the National Conference of Vol-unteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) as a member of the Question Pool Committee that oversees the develop-ment and maintenance of the Amateur Radio license examination question pools. ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, commented: "Amateur Radio is healthier today because of the tireless efforts of Fred Maia. While Fred did not always see things quite the same way as the ARRL, in my experience he always had the best interests of Amateur Radio at heart. He was a major figure who will be sorely missed." He is survived by his wife, Doris, and two daughters. A memorial service will be held at 3 PM, Saturday, March 31, at Moore Funeral Home, 1219 North Davis Dr, Arlington, TX 76012.
Arnold 5k and Arnold 5k Pump & Run Paul Flautt—KB8CMW
Fred Maia, W5YI
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Hams in Action
Hams in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio Provide Support During and After Tornado Outbreak A devastating storm system moved across the United States on March 2, spawning a slew of tornadoes that contributed to at least 28 fatalities in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. These tornadoes followed an earlier outbreak that began on February 28 and left 13 dead across Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee and battered parts of Kentucky. The Clark County (Indiana) Emergency Management Agency activated the local RACES team to help provide communications support, hams in Eastern Kentucky set up SKYWARN nets to assist the local National Weather Service office and Cincinnati-area hams supported the National Weather Service and the American Red Cross. Indiana On March 2, with a cold front bringing extreme weather to the Ohio Valley, the Clark County RACES team set up a SKY-WARN net to relay weather reports to the National Weather Service office in Louisville, Kentucky. According to Clark County Assistant Emergency Coordinator Jeffrey Brady, N9WSV, this front spawned several tornadoes that swept through the northern part of Clark County, as well as other nearby counties. ―After the storms passed, we started receiving reports of massive destruction in the Henryville and Marysville Indiana ar-eas,‖ Brady told the ARRL. The National Weather Service reported that an EF4 tornado -- with estimated wind speeds of 170 miles per hour and a damage width of one-third of a mile -- swept through the town of Henryville, located in the northwest portion of the county. This tornado destroyed hundreds of homes and killed 11 people. Not more than an hour later, another tornado, an EF1 twister, came through town. ―Immediately, ARRL Clark County Emergency Coordinator John Shean, N9TV, initiated contact with Clark County Emer-gency Management Director Les Kavanaugh,‖ Brady said. ―He activated the local RACES team to help provide communi-cations support in the affected areas. We set up a net, and the RACES team established a command post at the Monroe Volunteer Fire Department. Cell phone service was out over the entire affected area, and landline service was also out in much of the area, due to destruction of infrastructure. To make matters even worse, vital components of the 800 MHz radio system that the public agencies use were either down or severely overloaded during much of the first 12 hours of the situa-tion.‖ Brady told the ARRL that radio amateurs were dispatched to staff the relief stations to help coordinate health-and-welfare traffic and assisting with search-and-rescue efforts throughout Northern Clark County. ―As of March 14, we are still providing operational support, Brady said. ―We are still coordinating health-and-welfare traffic, as well as directing volunteers and supplies to provide the victims with the resources they need. We would also like to com-mend the operators from nearby counties in Indiana and Kentucky who have come to our aid with operators and equip-ment. Even as we maintain operations, we have started making notes of things that have worked well for us, and items we need to improve upon. We have also brought in some new members of the team who are getting some real world on-the-job training. Once we get the operation wrapped up, we are going to debrief the team with our lessons and share this infor-mation with other groups so they can be better prepared.‘ Kentucky It is not often that Eastern Kentucky experiences severe storms, but on March 2, several EF3 tornados struck the area, the first seen in the area in many years. According to ARRL Kentucky District 10 Emergency Coordinator and Great Lakes Division Assistant Director John Farler, K4AVX, the Region 4 ARES organization in Eastern Kentucky provided a tremen-dous amount of storm data during the recent activity to the National Weather Service office in Jackson, Kentucky. ―The town of West Liberty actually suffered some damage in the smaller tornado outbreak on February 29, but the tornado on March 3 practically destroyed the town,‖ Farler told the ARRL. All in all, 48 counties in Kentucky suffered damage from the storms, and 22 people died. This part of the state was definitely the hardest hit during this outbreak, including the Lau-rel County area, which had its own SKYWARN operators feeding information to NWS office Jackson.‖ Farler explained that the area has a repeater system -- the Eastern Kentucky Linked Repeater System -- that serves all of the Big Sandy Valley, the Upper Kentucky River Valley and parts of the Upper Cumberland River Valley. ―This rural moun-tainous area does not have a high concentration of amateur operators,‖ he said, ―so the system helps us work together to maximize efforts.‖ SKYWARN operations on the repeater system started at 6 PM March 2, and continued for the next four hours. ―Johnnie Brashear, KY4JLB, in Perry County, served as net control. Hams on the net who were in the areas affected by the storms passed along reports that were in turn passed on to the National Weather Service via NWSChat,‖ Farler said. ―This infor-mation was immediately accessible to the meteorologists.‖ Farler said that more than 33 radio amateurs in the affected area sent reports of very large hail, high winds, downed trees, blocked roads, funnel clouds and downed buildings.
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―We here at the Jackson National Weather Service want to thank you all for your efforts on Friday,‖ said Warning Coordination Meteorologist Tony Edwards, KJ4FYM. ―I cannot thank you all enough for the reports. This event serves as a great example of how important Amateur Radio is during catastrophic events. Had it not been for your reports, we would not have known the true severity of the impacts.‖ Ohio Radio amateurs in the Cincinnati Area participated in SKYWARN nets and helped provide support to the American Red Cross in the aftermath of the March 2 tornado outbreak. At about 1 PM on March 2, the National Weather Ser-vice office in Wilmington issued a tornado watch for the Cincinnati region. In less than an hour, hams had set up and were operating a SKYWARN net. ―The first indication of trouble wasn‘t a severe weather report, explained District 4 District Emergency Coordinator Steve Lewis, N8TFD, ―but numerous reports of debris such as plastic foam and plywood falling from the sky. This was soon followed by a string of damage reports. The now-confirmed tornados seem to have been mostly rain-wrapped and were difficult to observe. By 6:30 that evening, it was clear from both Amateur Radio and media re-ports that a disaster had occurred, and several members of the Queen City Emergency Net -- an Amateur Radio group attached to the Cincinnati-Dayton Region of the American Red Cross) reported to Region headquarters to prepare for probable deployment.‖ Hams with the Queen City Emergency Net conducted a resource net that evening at 8. Lewis said that the tasks assigned to the hams by the Red Cross were mainly related to disaster assessment; Amateur Radio was to be used for coordination, as cell phone service and other public utilities were experiencing outages. ―A group of 14 ra-dio amateurs met at the Red Cross on Saturday morning,‖ he told the ARRL. ―Two of them staffed the Red Cross radio room for coordination, while the other 12 deployed as six two-person teams into the tornado ‗strike zones‘ in Clermont County, Ohio and to Kenton, Grant and Pendleton Counties in Kentucky. Throughout the day, other hams reported to the chapter to help out.‖ Clermont County RACES/ARES members staffed the radio room at the Clermont County Emergency Management Office. According to Lewis, they were providing updates and receiving information from hams in the field and main-taining situational awareness for hams involved in the effort. Out in the field, they were using the Clermont County RACES/ARES repeater extensively for coordination of relief efforts in Franklin, Tate and Washington Townships, which include the village of Moscow. ―The most interesting and productive aspect of the day‘s operation was a relatively new process for disaster as-sessment in Clermont County,‖ Lewis explained. ―In Ohio, County Emergency Management Agencies have tradi-tionally done their own damage assessment, with the Red Cross doing its own. Although Red Cross disaster asses-sors don‘t enter homes, the ‗from the street‘ criteria are very similar between the EMAs and the Red Cross -- and reporting this data twice seemed like some unnecessary work to both parties. To improve this process, Amateur Radio operators who were doing the disaster assessment function were assigned to EMA-managed task forces in Moscow, the Clermont County village with the most damage. Each team had members of Fire/EMS and county en-gineering and building inspectors, as well as Red Cross volunteers. The team moved through town, determining damage (and possibly talking to clients) only once, instead of numerous times. All members of the task force were required to check in and out with the command post, consistent with NIMS accountability practices. This process was very effective, and the radio amateurs working in the area had a particularly strong working relationship with the Washington Township Fire Department.‖ Lewis told the ARRL that after the assessments were complete, hams were able to enter the information from the Red Cross into WebEOC for consumption by Clermont County Emergency Management Agency, ―closing the loop on a great story of cooperation between Amateur Radio and public safety.‖
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Arnold Sports Festival Josh Stevens - KB8YQS
AEC & Event Coordinator
During the month of April, all participants must re-enroll to confirm or add COARES (84947) as your designated organi-zation for Kroger Rewards. If you use your alternate ID (phone number) when you shop, make sure to include your phone number in your enrollment information. Enroll or re-enroll at http://krogercommunityrewards.com and click
on “Columbus” The code for COARES is “84947”.
Every time you swipe your Kroger card, COARES earns rewards based on our total sales per quarter. Because you're already buying groceries, why not help COARES at the same time? If you haven't already enrolled, the process is easy. If you don't yet have a Kroger card, they are available at the store's customer service desk. The Community Re-wards program runs from May 1-April 30. If you need more visit http://www.kroger.com/mykroger/016/documents/community_rewards/customer_handbook.pdf
Kroger Rewards Renewal
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digital sound card modes. It works on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Feel free to visit http://panbems.org/index.html as there is great material to not only get started but help educate others on Fldigi. I cannot emphasize it enough...we are not excluding any other mode such as DSTAR or Winlink.
Regardless of what tools you have in your digital toolbox, we felt everyone should have a hammer, so to speak. Fldigi fits that description very nicely.
Buckeye Public Service Net (BPSN). If you have Echolink, IRLP, and/or ALLSTAR in your county, please have your technical guru get in contact with George WD8GEO. George is good on QRZ.com. George is the foreman on the job and he would like to have the first net in April.
Speaking of nets...have you seen the new website for the Ohio Single Side Band Net (OSSBN)? Check it out at http://www.ossbn.org/.
Looking down the calendar... The Second Annual Great Lakes Emergency Communications Conference is scheduled for Saturday, July 21st at the
Gilmour Academy Lower School in Gates Mills, Ohio. Last year we focused on the incident command system. This year the staff is focusing more on what the conference is all about...emergency communications. More information about this conference can be found at www.glecc.org. The next staff meeting will be held on Monday, March 19th at 7:30PM at Gilmour Academy Lower School. Talk-in is on 146.790(-) PL 88.5.
Columbus Hamfest and ARRL Ohio State Convention is Saturday, August 4th at the Aladdin Shrine Center near Easton Shopping Center. Click on the Convention Information button at www.arrl-ohio.org for more details and to see who the Special Guest Speaker will be.
ARRL Simulated Emergency Test is typically held the first weekend in October. Plans are underway to implement a Statewide SET in accordance with the ARRL SET. Stay tuned for details as they become available.
73, Matt W8DEC Ohio Section Emergency Coordinator
STATEHOUSE HAPPENINGS..
H.B. 158 Poised for Final Approval
Our antenna legislation, H.B. 158 has now passed a floor vote in the Ohio House of Representatives and has been passed by the Senate Local Governments and Veteran‘s Affairs Committee. It is now awaiting approval by the Ohio Senate. While we thought that vote might take place this week it did not, and there is currently no scheduled Senate floor vote. Because of minor differences between the version passed by the House and the version we anticipate being approved by the Senate, the House will be asked to concur in the Senate changes before the final measure is sent to Governor Kasich for signature.
The delays should not be considered as a negative, as there has not been a great deal of legislation passed in recent weeks, and the fact that our Bill is delayed is not unusual in that context. And while it would be nice to present the final legislation at Dayton, we have absolutely no control over the legislative schedule.
What we can control, however, is the public perceptions of amateur radio. Our legislation has been presented and approved as a measure to enhance homeland security and emergency communications. Indeed, many would say that is our only basis for claim-ing exclusive access to a large segment of spectrum that many others would like to have for commercial purposes. We can, and should not only emphasize that purpose in our comments about amateur radio but also in our personal commitment to the hobby.
It is essential that we obtain final passage of this Bill before the end of this calendar year. If we don‘t, our efforts must begin anew in 2013 and all of the progress made thus far would be lost. We are monitoring the progress on an ongoing basis, and if an extra "push" from the membership is necessary you will be hearing from us with requests for calls, letters and emails to your local legis-lators. We will notify you if any significant developments take place. Thanks and 73.
Nick, K8NAP State Government Liaison
CENTRAL OHIO REPORT.. Hello from Central Ohio I am happy to report that plans for the Columbus Hamfest / Ohio Section Conference continues on track. I had the pleasure of attending a meeting held March 10th at The Aladdin Shrine Event & Conference Center. For anyone who has never attended the Columbus Hamfest I encourage you to circle August 4th. I can assure you that you will enjoy a top notch venue. On March 13th the new Section Emergency Coordinator (SEC) Matt(W8DEC) and I had the pleasure of attending a District 9 ARES meeting. With nearly 20 attendees the room was near capacity. Matt provided the group with his vision of ARES which included training, modes of operation, and operating plans just to name a few. I used this opportunity to renew friendships and to catch up on the latest news. Until next time 73 & Good DX. Fritz Tender, WD8E Assistant Section Manager Central Ohio
Ohio Section, From P2
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EC-001 Class July 7 - 8 2012 Columbus, OH
ARRL Introduction to Emergency
Communications Course
Saturday & Sunday July 7 & 8, 2012
8:00 AM to 6 PM
20 Hour two day intensive course leading to the exam for ARRL’s
'Introduction to Emergency Communications 'Certification
This course contains all the topics and subject matter found in the
ARRL’s online Introduction to Emergency Communication Course in a
classroom format. This format leads to the same certification as the
online version in a single weekend for those who pass the exam. An
exam will be offered after the class for $15 payable to the ARRL.
The lead instructor will be Bill NE1LL. Bill is a veteran mentor of the
online version mentoring over 163 Hams in over 50 sessions. Special
topics instructors will include: David Dilbeck Ph.D-W8ACE, Stan
Broadway-N8BHL and other experts.
The course is free but registration is required by May
25, 2012. Those wishing to purchase a book may do so
at Universal Radio for $22.95 plus tax or from the
ARRL $24.95 Plus S&H. For those wishing to take the
exam, the fee is $15 payable to the ARRL by check or
M.O.
This course will be held at the Ohio EMA and Joint Dispatch Facility
2855 West Dublin Granville Road-Columbus, Ohio 43235.
Reservations to: [email protected] 614-726-5539 or 239-338-8500 by May
25, 2012. Further information and updates are available at our website
www.colvet.org and at the American Radio Relay League website
www.arrl.org
Central Ohio Amateur Radio Emergency Service Page 11
EC-001 Class April 21-22 2012 Zanesville, OH
The Muskingum County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) has agreed sponsor a local, classroom based version
of the ARRL's Introduction to Emergency Communications course. This was previously known as the Level I course
and it has traditionally only been available on-line through the ARRL.
This local course will be taught by Dr. David Dilbeck, W8ACE, who is a registered Field Instructor and Field Exam-
iner for the ARRL, as well as a Professor of Advanced Computer Science at The Ohio State University. That means
that this class will qualify you to take the written exam at the end of the course in order to obtain your ARRL certificate
of completion.
The class will meet on April 21st and April 22nd from 8AM - 8PM each day, we will have a long lunch break. The
class will be held at the Muskingum County EMA Office located at: 2215 Old Adamsville Road, Zanesville, Ohio
43701. Attendance on both days of classes is mandatory. No Excuses from a class session will be accepted.
Anyone wishing to take the class must register prior to the class so that we can ensure that sufficient seating is avail-
able. The number of students may be limited. If you wish to attend you must pre-register by sending a note to W8ACE
at [email protected], also feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the class.
There is great deal of material to cover for this class and all students should purchase the course manual from the
ARRL,http://www.arrl.org/shop/The-ARRL-Introduction-to-Emergency-Communication-Course/. The book is item
#7303 and costs $24.95.
There will be no charge for the class and you do not have to be an ARRL or ARES member to participate, we welcome
anyone for our served agencies to attend. There is a $15.00 fee, payable to the ARRL, to take the final exam.
Below are the Prerequisites for the EC-001 class:
Prerequisites. Before you begin the course you should have completed the following prerequisites. These courses pro-
vide a foundation for the content of this course. These are free mini-courses you can take online at:
http://training.fema.gov/IS/NIMS.asp
ICS-100 (IS-100.b) (Introduction to the Incident Command System)
IS -700 (National Incident Management System)
Please note: When you enroll for this course you will be asked to provide your date of completion of these courses.
Also recommended, but not required, are:
IS-250, Emergency Support Function 15 (ESF15), External Affairs
IS-288, The Role of Voluntary Agencies in Emergency Management
1. Complete the course pre-requisites noted above.
2. Read each learning unit of this course, and test yourself with the questions at the end of each unit.
3. Feel free to ask questions and engage in dialog with your instructor.
4. When you are ready, take the final exam at the end of this course. A passing score is 80% or better. Your instructor
will decide if you have met the requirements to successfully complete this course. This will depend on your comple-
tion of the course pre-requisites, assessment of your work on course activities, and successful completion of the final
exam
Kal Dworkin, KA8RLC 973 Venetian Way
Gahanna, Ohio 43230
Dated Material
April 2012 Volume XV, No. 2
COARES ACTIVITIES April
04-04-12 Wednesday Night Net 8:00 pm 147.060(+) (94.8 Hz PL) Ohio EMA — W8SGT
04-10-12 COTS Exercise 9:00am Franklin County COTS Locations Kal Dworkin — KA8RLC
04-11-12 Wednesday Night Net 8:00 pm 147.060(+) (94.8 Hz PL) Gale Adams — KD8KWG
04-15-12 Run CBus 10 Miler 8:00 am Gahanna, OH Homer Workman — KD8LUY
04-15-12 Hoover Hustle 10k & 5K 9:00 am Hoover Dam Westerville, OH Chris Huyette — KD8OAE
04-18-12 In-person Meeting 7:30 pm Franklin Co. EM & Homeland Security Kal Dworkin— KA8RLC
04-25-12 Wednesday Night Net 8:00 pm 147.060(+) (94.8 Hz PL) Homer Workman — KD8LUY
04-29-12 Spring for SIDS 8:30 am Battelle-Darby Creek Metro Park Josh Stevens — KB8YQS
May
05-02-12 Wednesday Night Net 8:00 pm 147.060(+) (94.8 Hz PL) Josh Scott — KD8OLR
05-09-12 In-person / TOSRV Meeting 7:30 pm Franklin Co. EM & Homeland Security Kal Dworkin— KA8RLC
05-12-12 — 05-13-12
TOSRV Bike Tour 6:00 am Columbus to Portsmouth & Back Kal Dworkin— KA8RLC
05-16-12 Wednesday Night Net 8:00 pm 147.060(+) (94.8 Hz PL) Kal Dworkin— KA8RLC
05-18-12 — 05-20-12
Dayton Hamvention 8:00 am Hara Arena Trotwood, OH Dayton Amateur Radio Association
05-19-12 Race for the Cure 08:00 am Downtown Columbus Wayne Wells — KA8CEJ
05-23-12 Wednesday Night Net 8:00 pm 147.060(+) (94.8 Hz PL) Gale Adams — KD8KWG
05-26-12 Beer-athlon 7:00 pm Bethel Rd.
05-30-12 Wednesday Night Net 8:00 pm 147.060(+) (94.8 Hz PL) Matthew Rausenberg—KD8OEG
Full Event Calendar can be found at: COARES.org Under “Events”
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