[XWARN] FW: ARRL: Please read! A thank you and new developments

[Fred Stone]

Please see message below.  For those who don’t know . . . “The Sarge” (referenced below) is Amateur Radio AuxComm Station W8SGT at the Ohio EMA EOC Comm Center in Columbus.

 

73,

 

Fred Stone W8LLY

District Emergency Coordinator

West Central Ohio District 3 ARES

 

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Fred Stone

W8LLY at ARRL.net

(or  <mailto:W8LLY at TWC.com> W8LLY at TWC.com)

(m) (937)  848-4112
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Please read! A thank you and new developments


 


 

We're trying not to blow up your email, but this has been a significant week in Ohio. Most important, I want to thank all of you who responded to Ohio's historic Memorial Day Outbreak of tornadoes. There are now 19 confirmed, with teams still working. At least two were EF-3 strength. Your participation in Skywarn as the system moved into Ohio was important!  Situational awareness reports you supplied all night Monday into Tuesday and beyond were a critical part of Ohio's gearing up to respond.  

Our Ohio amateur radio response was not without problems- the storm de-sense was amazingly strong Monday evening. At some point we (read: probably me) fumble-fingered the DMR radio and we lost connection. Thanks to Arlin Bradford who made a special trip yesterday to re-program and improve our DMR situation. "The Sarge" will be stronger than ever into the systems now, and we've added a bunch of new groups (see below). We have also added surrounding states to coordinate longer-track events.  HF picked back up after the main frontal system moved away, but by then 'normal' communications were holding the load. 

Amateur radio wasn't done though, as late as yesterday Mahoning and surrounding counties were alerted for damage assessment from flooding.   "The Sarge" closed operation last evening with many accolades from the EMA managers. We pass those on to all of you, who were out doing the work!   Our fledgling idea to create a statewide flow of information worked, and worked well- just in the nick of time.  It was a tremendous opportunity for amateur radio to be directly involved with real life-and-death events across the state; and you responded professionally. Thank you!

We have created a couple of events in Connect for logging your activities. If you had a county or district level response, please create an event back-dated as needed to record your times.  The next step is to catalog all the information we can about ARES response for a full After Action Report.  Please forward your work/times to your EC. EC's, forward a report to your DEC's  so we can get everything recorded!  

This has been a historic event for Ohio, and I thank you for being a big part of the response! 

Here are the DRM groups we added- you may want to make sure those that apply to your area are in your radios!

31391  NEOH

31392  WXOH

31393  SEOH

31394  SWOH

31395  ARES

31399  OHYSF (Fusion link)

313920 MNFD 

3118    IN

31183  INWX (Indiana Weather)

3126    MI

3121    KY

3142    PA

3154    WV

73 On behalf of Scott, N8SY and Stan N8BHL   

 


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