2023-05-05 ARES of Delaware County Meeting Agenda, May 8, 7pm, In-Person at 911 Center
Hello,
Reminder, our next monthly meeting is on next Monday, May 8th, starting at 7pm. Agenda is below.
Date
at 7:00pm (1900 hours) at Delaware County Emergency Services building (911 center)
360 Middletown Rd, Media, PA 19063
Discussion items
Time | Item | Who | Notes |
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5 minutes | Introductions & Welcome | ||
20 minutes | Discussion of EOC Exercise at 911 Center | The Delaware County Department of Emergency Services held an EOC (emergency operations center) exercise on Wednesday, which ARES was invited to participate in. They had the following objectives:
We will discuss what ARES did and what we learned from the exercise at the meeting. | |
15 minutes | Discussion of semi-portable fixed stations | We currently have 3 VHF/UHF/HF Go Kits with Yaesu FT-857 Radios (Yellow), and 3 1.2 GHz DSTAR Digital Voice/Data kits with ICOM ID-1 Radios (Orange). Would like to have these units setup and ready for use (along with some type of antennas) or pickup at 3 locations throughout the Delaware County area. I think ideally that would be north (Radnor), mid-county (911 center) and south (training center). Since the Yellow FT-857 kits have modems and (very old) HP notebooks, they may be able to double as Winlink stations most of the time and switched over as needed. I would like to get everyone (me included) comfortable with using these radios, since they are different and older than the ICOMs most of us currently use. I would also like to keep these active by having different people join the weekly net using these on a regular basis, so we keep famiral with their use and make sure that they are operational. I would also like to use our HF capabilities to try and join in on the PEMA ACS net on a regular basis as well, so we get comfortable contacting them. Having some basic information about what radios and antennas each of us has would be helpful for this as well. I'd like to get people to complete their profile on the Delco ARES website to supply whatever you are comfortable with. | |
20 minutes | EOC After Action Review (AAR) | We will put together an AAR (after action report) for the EOC Exercise from the ARES point of view. Here's a sample from our field day last year: | |
20 minutes | Standard Operating Procedures | Review of what we have started for Standard Operating Procedures and start to fill in some more details based on our AAR above. Please review Standard Operating Procedures page, and we'll have a quick initial discussion of formalizing a Delco ARES Manual Please review the SOP page and provide any feedback. | |
10 minutes | General discussion | If we are on schedule, we can have a general discussion and Q&A at the end of the meeting. |