Washington County ARES October 2015

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Quake Ex 2 WashingtonCountyWC7EOC

 Never made HF Winlink work – very poor propagation  Short contact with Salem on HF  RMS Post Office – worked great  Slow Scan  Resilience Fair ½ block away  Forgot incident number

Solar wind flowing from the indicated coronal hole should reach Earth on Oct. 9. Credit: SDO/AIA. On Oct.10 Earth is exiting a stream of solar wind flowing from the indicated coronal hole. Credit: SDO/AIA.

Cooper Mtn RMS Post Office KC7PD-10 & Net Control

Exposure

Dixie Mtn RMS Post Office K7TRP-10 Slow Scan

Scoggins Dam Before After

Boy Scouts

SET Quake Ex 2  Date: October 10 th  Time: 8AM to 5PM  2 Operational Periods  Heavy on RMS Post Office for messaging KC7PMU oMhz K7TRP Mhz

Quake Ex2 Take home for this exercise >Cooper Mtn Location – Very good covers north and south >Dixie Mtn – Very good – to reach other counties >Scoggins – Noisy pictures, but good trip

Simulated Emergency Test Tigard KD7RFG - Richard K7TKK Winlink trouble – password Water & Electricity

Simulated Emergency Test Tuality Hillsboro Hospital  - Turned to rubble no operations  - Everyone went to dam to save the county

Simulated Emergency Test TVF&R from their agencies Testing of: RMS Post Office DSTAR.

Simulated Emergency Test Boy Scouts - Phil AA0PB Hillsboro CERT? County EM Merit badges

antenna options Antenna Resource Dale WB6BYU

Cascade Rising  June 7-10, 2015  BIG DEAL  Multi-State Exercise  Washington-Oregon  Washington County plays interactively Day 1 and 2  Day 3 and 4 SimCell activity only

Day 1 Tuesday June 7  Day 1 Tuesday June 7  No 800Mhz Trunked System  No Central Dispatch  No Internet  No Texting  No Cell Service  Yes VHF/UHF Emergency Service Simplex  Yes Amateur Radio  Yes Sat Phone

Day 2 Wednesday June 8  Spotty 800 MHz trunked system  Central Dispatch Recovering  Scoggins Valley Dam Fails  - Resource Requests

Day 3,4 June 9-10  EOC with limited personnel  SimCell  - Comms normal

Weekly Tuesday Night Net 7PM Mhz T127.3hz Except 3 rd Tues

N7QQU B Tuesdays at 7:30PM Voice & DRATS Mhz Except 3 rd Tues

Training Net 8PM Mhz

Morning ham radio mhz Tone Mhz Offset

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