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The ARES Letter

Published by the American Radio Relay League ********************************************

February 16, 2022

Editor: Rick Palm, K1CE <k1ce@arrl.net>

IN THIS ISSUE

- ARRL National Convention Emergency Communications Academy Offers
Hands-On Training; Glimpse into the Future; Introduction of New ARRL
DEM; Affirmation of League Commitment to EmComm - 122 Registrants
Attend
- New England ARES, SKYWARN Mobilizes for Major Winter Storm and
Blizzard
- K1CE for a Final: Observations of the ARRL EmComm Academy
- ARRL Resources

ARES® Briefs, Links

Save the Dates - Cascadia Rising 2022 -- This FEMA National Level
Exercise is a follow-up to Cascadia Rising 2016. The scenario begins
with an abrupt shifting of the Earth's crust along the Cascadia
Subduction Zone, resulting in a full-length rupture of that fault
between Cape Mendocino in Northern California and Nootka Island in
British Columbia. This produces a magnitude 9.0+ earthquake with
numerous aftershocks, some exceeding magnitude 7.0, which disrupt
response efforts. Subsidence and a tsunami will drastically impact
coastal areas. Ground shaking, liquifaction, and landslides will affect
nearly every area west of the Cascade Mountains.

Although both Oregon and Washington scaled back their participation,
both the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), the
National Tribal Emergency Management Council (NTEMC), and several
counties are still planning Functional Exercises. These organizations
will have ample amateur radio emergency communications opportunities.

WSDOT will do mostly bridge inspections, and these will be held on June
15-16, although volunteer groups could choose to do inspections in
their area on a weekend if more members are available to participate
during those periods. Clark County ARES/RACES <http:// https://www.ccareswa.org> practiced doing bridge inspections, including test-driving the new Winlink form, as part of their 2021 Simulated
Emergency Test.

The NTEMC will need a full slate of amateur radio communications
support as they will be exercising FEMA Emergency Management Response
Phases 2a, 2b, and 2c over the course of 11 days, June 9-19. No group
will need to play on all days, but there is plenty of opportunity for
VHF/UHF and HF, both voice and Winlink. Some of the ESF #2 activities
will involve communications with federal and state agencies, within
tribes and between adjacent tribes, taking and relaying safety
assessments of tribal infrastructure and small airfields, tracking of
general aviation planes delivering supplies, and radio support for
other responding entities (CERT, Medical Reserve Corps, general
aviation pilots, HAZMAT teams, etc.).

If your RACES/ARES/ACS/AuxComm or other emergency communications group
has a tribal nation nearby, or you have an Away Team that could travel
to an adjacent county, please contact me for exercise details. -- Steve
Aberle, WA7PTM, ARRL Assistant Director - Tribal Liaison, ARRL
Northwestern Division <wa7ptm@arrl.net>

Published twice monthly for the FEMA Regional Emergency Communications Coordination Working Group (RECCWG) stakeholders, the FEMA Disaster
Emergency Communications News Clippings and Topics of Interest
newsletter provides articles of interest from various sources across
the emergency communications and homeland security communities. The
Vol. 10 Issue 1, (January 1 - 15, 2022) contained the following item:

Disaster Zone Podcast: Amateur Radio Systems -- January 2, 2022 <https://www.govtech.com/em/emergency-blogs/disaster-zone/disaster-zone-podcast-amateur-radio-systems>:
"Amateur radio is emergency management's last best hope for maintaining communications in a disaster when all other systems fail. This podcast
is an interview with two leaders from the Seattle Auxiliary
Communications Service (Seattle ACS), Tim Helming, [WT1IM], and
Catherine Middleton-Hardie, [KJ7DYG]. Seattle ACS supports the Seattle
Office of Emergency Management. In the podcast you will learn all about
the different types of amateur radio organizations, the equipment,
frequencies and wide variety of missions and activities that amateur
radio operators support; and a bit about how Seattle ACS is organized
and maintains their operational readiness."

Alachua County, Florida ARES team members participated in their
twice-monthly operational training net on Thursday, January 27, 2022.
The purpose of the net was to test simplex communication.

The net required check-ins on the local ARES net repeater, and then
moving to an unused simplex frequency. Net Control for the training net
was located at the top of a local hospital's parking garage; the
second-highest location in the county was selected due to unobstructed
line of sight in all directions.

The results were quite promising, with eight operators from around the
county checking in and exceeding the expectations of simplex
communications locally. The exercise yielded critical information about successful communications without use of the local repeaters. -- ARRL
Northern Florida Section news

On February 18, at 0100 UTC (the evening of Thursday, February 17, in
North American time zones), the US Army Network Enterprise Technology
Command (NETCOM) will host a Zoom call to discuss amateur radio and
AUXCOM support to the US Department of Defense. During this
presentation, the NETCOM representative will discuss:

· the authorities for these operations

· upcoming DOD exercise opportunities for 2022, where outreach to the
amateur radio/AUXCOM community will be a primary training objective

· use of the five 60-meter channels

· the concept for the types of amateur/AUXCOM outreach.

There will be an opportunity for Q&A throughout the presentation. Use
this Zoom link <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83781154615?pwd=L0NOY0hEV0tBdmNDWVNNeWRaVXJ5dz09>
to attend. The meeting ID is 837 8115 4615, and the passcode is 670665.

ARRL NATIONAL CONVENTION EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS ACADEMY OFFERS

HANDS-ON TRAINING; GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE; INTRODUCTION OF NEW ARRL
DEM; AFFIRMATION OF LEAGUE COMMITMENT TO EMCOMM - 122 REGISTRANTS
ATTEND

The ARRL Emergency Communications Academy was held on February 10 in conjunction with the ARRL National Convention at Orlando HamCation®,
with subject matter experts from an array of emergency and disaster communications communities serving as panelists and instructors. The
diversity of presenters' backgrounds was a key to the patently
successful day-long session. Just about every facet of knowledge and
experience was represented.

Panelists included ARRL Field Services Manager Mike Walters, W8ZY, one
of the principal architects of the highly popular Red Cross Winlink
Thursday exercises. The new ARRL Director of Emergency Management Josh Johnston, KE5MHV, was introduced. ARRL section-level managers and
coordinators including Northern Florida Section Emergency Coordinator
(SEC) Arc Thames, W4CPD, and West

Central Florida SEC Christine Duez, K4KJN, representing ARES® and
the National Traffic System were on hand to discuss plans, programs,
and issues in their respective sections and areas of expertise. There
were emergency management officials from the states of Florida and
Georgia, among others, and the Federal government. From the Florida
Department of Emergency Management (FDEM) was the newly appointed
Statewide Interoperability Coordinator (SWIC); from Georgia was the
state's AUXCOMM coordinator. Other panelists and attendees included two
AUXCOMM course trainers, a representative from the US Department of
Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Information Security agency
(CISA) emergency communications department, and a two-term former FEMA administrator, among many others. Other subject matter experts rounded
out the slate of presenters and instructors.

The room was packed with pre-registered students from across the
country, as far away as Washington State, representing another level of diversity that added value to the session. They came equipped with
radios and laptops, ready and excited to participate in the hands-on
training sessions planned. The official count of attendance was a
whopping 122. Academy Lead Instructor Gordon Gibby, MD, KX4Z, said, "I
think one might be hard-pressed to find a more diverse group of
instructors and students; I'm grateful to each and every one for taking
the time to present their knowledge and experience for others to learn
from and enjoy."

Speakers offered a look into the future of volunteer radio amateurs'
roles in state government emergency management, specifically in
state-level emergency operations centers, and the possible training requirements leading to credentialing for state EOC access. State
planning staff are considering that a volunteer operator will need to
progress through a series of learning and training programs, starting
with the now-familiar, basic FEMA Independent Study courses IS-100,
200, 700, 800 (and possibly others), followed by the US Department of
Homeland Security's Office of Emergency Communications Auxiliary
Communications course completion, check-off of the items of the
Auxiliary Communicator (AUXC) Position Task Book, and finally
credentialing by the specific state emergency management agency
involved. The AUXC is a relatively new position likely to be added to
the Communications Unit (COMU) of the Logistics Section of the
NIMS/Incident Command System emergency management structure. It's a
position that may be open to ARES members and other radio amateurs in
general, but may be open to licensees in other personal radio services,
too.

Speakers encouraged check-offs of the items in the ARES and Florida
Position Task Books as well. It is expected that more AUXCOMM courses
will be available across the country as the staff of DHS/OEM and state
agencies embraces the AUXCOMM Train-the-Trainer (TtT) education.
Important note: It was emphasized that the training, certification and credentialing sequence described above by the speakers is likely to be
limited to service at the State level; i.e., the State EOC. It should
not affect volunteer ARES and other amateur radio operators serving
their local, county emergency management agencies and EOCs: how radio
amateur volunteers are coordinated and utilized at these levels will be
left to the discretion of local/county government, as it always has
been.

The audience was informed of the new National Interoperability Field
Operations Guide Version 2.0 <https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/NIFOG%20Ver%202.0_508%20version_FINAL%20-%2011%2015%2021_1%20%28002%29.pdf>
that was released last fall. A new version of the current Auxiliary Communications Field Operations Guide (AUXFOG) Version 1.1 <https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/AUXFOG%20June%202016%20-%20508%20Reviewed%20-%20Final%20%282-16-17%29_0.pdf>
is expected in March. The Auxiliary Communications Field Operations
Guide (AUXFOG) is a reference for auxiliary communicators who directly
support backup emergency communications for State/local public safety
entities or for an amateur radio organization supporting public safety.

Speakers emphasized that the AUXCOMM program is not designed to replace
the venerable ARES program; rather, it is meant to complement it.
AUXCOMM 's more narrow scope of practice is limited to support of
relationships with government emergency management and public safety
agencies. ARES operators who have taken the AUXCOMM training and have
had check-offs in their ARES and other Position Task Books, however,
will have a head start on program material mandated by the AUXCOMM
program for State government credentialing.

Hands-On Training Leads to Engagement

There was far more than just speeches and "talking." The emphasis was
on learning by doing in several of the academy efforts; for example, participants moved traffic with their handheld radios in live nets, on
various frequencies. Newcomers to Winlink learned how to download and
set up their computers with the software, and get registered on the
network. They sent email messages via Telnet Winlink and made live HF
ARDOP and VARA radio connections and message transfers on a live HF
system. Gibby said, "Our preferred mode of teaching was SEE IT, DO IT."

Other Highlights Punctuated the Day

Highlights of the day-long session included exceptional, dynamic
presentations from C. Matthew Curtin, KD8TTE, Warrant Officer, Signal
Section, Ohio Military Reserve, and founder of the BLACK SWAN exercise
and training program that has pioneered interoperability among agencies
and NGOs. Curtin opened the sessions with an overview of amateur radio
response to disasters and how communication works through layers of
networks and interchanges. View his series of excellent YouTube
training videos
<https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Radio+KD8TTE>.

Helen Straughn, WC4FSU, retired public safety communicator with the
Florida State University and Tallahassee police departments, along with
Curtin, covered basic voice Radiogram message transfer and capturing
radiograms into the ICS-213 form, the message format employed in the
Incident Command System. A simulated net session demonstrated message transaction practice from message origination to sending, receiving,
and finally, delivery.

The academy's ARES Forum was conducted by newly appointed Northern
Florida Section Emergency Coordinator Arc Thames, W4CPD [the day was
started with a moment of silence for former SEC Karl Martin, K4HBN, who
passed away three weeks ago]. A recurring theme of the forum was the
critical importance of the healthy relationship between the ARES member
and leadership, with the local/county emergency management and other
served entities including public event coordinators. "Our job is to
offer our help if they want it; to perform any task they need done,
even if it's not directly related to radio-communications," Thames
said. "We serve them, not the other way around." Thames was joined by
West Central Florida SEC Christine Duez, K4KJN, who discussed the CERT
program in her section and the challenges and rewards of managing a
large ARES community.

A riveting AUXCOMM forum on the theme of integration of amateur radio
emergency service groups featured the comments of the newly-appointed
Florida SWIC, the Georgia AUXCOMM coordinator, two AUXCOMM class
instructors, and two-term former FEMA administrator Craig Fugate,
KK4INZ, which was expertly moderated by Leland Gallup, AA3YB. Gallup is
a lawyer who served in the US Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps and
then as a civilian attorney for the Federal government. The panelists
laid out their visions for the future of the amateur radio role in
AUXCOMM, as discussed above. Administrator Fugate spoke to the fact
that no other aspect of emergency support functioning can occur without communications.

Lead instructor Gordon Gibby, KX4Z, an electrical engineer,
anesthesiologist, and high school advanced chemistry teacher who has
galvanized Alachua County (home of the University of Florida campus in Gainesville) radio amateurs with his regionally and now nationally
recognized training exercises conducted strictly under the ICS
protocols, opened his session with a brief discussion and demonstration
of Winlink emergency communication tools. He quickly turned to getting
students in the room to be able to download the Winlink software,
register with the network, and send a short message via Telnet Winlink.
It was a challenge for many students, but a stroll around the room
revealed 75-80% of the laptop screens displayed Winlink up and running.
Some chaos added to the fun!

Curtin and Gibby gave an educational - and wildly entertaining
demonstration - program on emergency antennas: guidance on
field-expedient antenna systems, NVIS propagation, and RF exposure
compliance. This session was a particularly big hit with conferees.

Rounding out the incredible day was an expert overview of emergency
power sources, including the advantages of Lithium Iron Phosphate
batteries, by Earl McDow, K4ZSW, who worked in medical research
computer data acquisition and analysis, and later, in the Oak Ridge
nuclear complex and research universities in Tennessee.

Conclusion: Signs of Success

It was a long day for presenters and students alike, but by 5:00 PM, no
one had left their seats: a sure sign of success and engagement. The
panelists and instructors also happily noted that "The evaluations from
the audience were excellent (scored 4.4 average out of 5) and provided
lots of ideas for further improvement on what were very well-regarded
talks."

Notes:

The program that was implemented for the communications track is at https://qsl.net/nf4rc/2022/EmCommTrainingTrack0106.pdf

Talking points of presentations can be found at these links:
Amateur Radio & Disasters -- M. Curtin <https://qsl.net/nf4rc/ARRL/Overview%20of%20Amateur%20Radio%20Response%20to%20Disaster.pdf>
Basic Voice Traffic -- Curtin & Straughn <https://qsl.net/nf4rc/ARRL/Basic%20Voice%20Traffic%20Handling_%20Mechanics.pdf>
Hands On ICS-213 Traffic -- Curtin & Gallup & Straughn <https://qsl.net/nf4rc/ARRL/Hands-On%20Voice%20Traffic%20Net_%20Transmitting%20ICS-213%20by%20Radiogram.pdf>
Data Comms -- Gibby <https://qsl.net/nf4rc/ARRL/WINLNKPresentation.pdf> Emergency Antennas -- Gibby & Curtin <https://qsl.net/nf4rc/ARRL/EmergencyAntennas.pdf>
Emergency Power -- McDow & Capehart <https://qsl.net/nf4rc/ARRL/2022%20ARRL%20National%20Convention%20Emergency%20Power.pdf>

See also the full set of presenters' powerpoint slides here <http:// https://arrl-nfl.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-ARRL-National-Convention_EmComm.pptx>.

NEW ENGLAND ARES, SKYWARN MOBILIZES FOR MAJOR WINTER STORM AND

BLIZZARD

Amateur Radio operators across New England were active with a major
winter storm and blizzard causing several feet of snow, hurricane force
wind gusts at the coast, tree and power line damage from the
combination of wet snow and damaging winds in portions of East Coastal Massachusetts, particularly Cape Cod and the Islands, and minor to
moderate coastal flooding at the time of the high tide cycle. The
blizzard broke various records and placed in the top 10 of major snow
events in the cities of Boston and Providence.

"It was a long weekend of ARES-SKYWARN operations with extended ARES
operations over Cape Cod and the Islands," said Rob Macedo, KD1CY,
Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator and SKYWARN Coordinator.

Western Massachusetts ARES and SKYWARN supported a Western
Massachusetts Emergency Net on 3944 KHz throughout the entire day, open
to all amateurs in New England with over a dozen nets yielding close to
100 reports of snowfall and other conditions. This was coordinated by
Net Manager Tom Kinahan, N1CPE, and his team of net controls at the
discretion of the Western Massachusetts ARES SEC, Bob Meneguzzo, K1YO.

The New England Echolink and IRLP reflector system
<http://new-eng.com/> was also utilized, with many SKYWARN reports
relayed on that system. Close to a dozen repeaters had rolling Amateur
Radio SKYWARN Nets gathering snowfall reports, damage reports, and
current conditions from around the region. DMR was utilized for SKYWARN
efforts both in Southern New England and across portions of the state
of Maine.

"The Amateur Radio nets provided a tremendous amount of situational
awareness regarding snowfall accumulations and the high rate of
snowfall that was occurring, storm damage and wind gusts that were
reaching hurricane force gusts across East Coastal Massachusetts, Cape
Cod and the Islands, and moderate coastal flooding at the time of high
tide. Over 115,000 customers were without power in Massachusetts, with
outages centered over Southeast Coastal Massachusetts and especially
Cape Cod and the Islands where the combination of wet snow and damaging
winds caused the most damage. The information was shared with the
National Weather Service, Massachusetts Emergency Management, and the
media providing an up to date situational awareness picture in near
realtime of what was occurring as the blizzard affected the region,"
Macedo said. Read a post-blizzard message summarizing most of the data <http://wx1box.org/2022/02/01/post-blizzard-coordination-message-1-late-friday-night-1-28-22-through-early-sunday-morning-1-30-22-historic-blizzard/>.

Cape Cod ARES Operation

In addition to rolling Cape Cod ARES-SKYWARN nets every 2 hours, Cape
Cod ARES supported operations at the Barnstable County Emergency
Operations Center (EOC) supporting the Multi Agency Coordination Center
(MACC) operations at the EOC as well as regional shelters. Close to a
dozen radio amateurs supported the ARES operation and SKYWARN efforts.

"We had operators supporting shelters in the towns of Falmouth and a
regional shelter at the Barnstable Middle School in Barnstable,
Massachusetts," said Frank O'Laughlin, WQ1O, Cape Cod ARES District
Emergency Coordinator. "In the town of Sandwich, operators staffed the
town EOC as well as two warming centers while I staffed the county
EOC", said O'Laughlin. "A key issue we had was various generator
failures at some sites that extended shelter operations into late
Sunday Afternoon before commercial power was restored sufficiently
where our operations stood down late Sunday afternoon."

Amateur operators in the Cape Cod ARES activation included Tom Wruk,
KB1QCQ, and Jason Ludwig, KC1MLQ, at the Barnstable Middle School
shelter. For the town of Sandwich, operators included Bill Lapine,
W1WAL, who is also the Deputy EMA Director for the town of Sandwich,
Chris Ranney, WA1CMR, and Dennis Driscoll, N1RDN, for the Sandwich
Warming Centers and Heather Gallant, K1BOH, at the Sandwich EOC. For
the town of Falmouth, Henry Brown, K1WCC, operated from the shelter
with Mel Trott, KC1ELB, staffing the town of Falmouth EOC. Many other
operators provided SKYWARN reports from the Cape Cod ARES group with
Lem Skidmore, W1LEM, and Barry Hutchinson, KB1TLR, acting as Net
Control stations for the SKYWARN Nets. - Thanks, Rob Macedo, KD1CY,
Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator and SKYWARN Coordinator

K1CE FOR A FINAL: OBSERVATIONS OF THE ARRL EMCOMM ACADEMY

It was a pleasure and a real privilege to observe the panelists and
instructors do their thing at the ARRL Emergency Communications
Training Academy session described above. In over 40 years of running
and participating in these kinds of programs for ARRL volunteers, this
one was far and away the finest, most effective and engaging conference
I've ever been involved with. The key to success was the diverse panel
of subject matter experts who served as the panelists and instructors;
they captivated the audience with their knowledge, experience, and
enthusiasm. The audience was also a diverse group, from many different interests and disciplines. I spent a lot of time observing the students
during the course of the day -- their engagement was manifest.

One of the main takeaways from the conference for me was the sense of affirmation of the ARRL's commitment to excellence in emergency
communications programs and training, which goes back more than a
hundred years (read the "Emergencies" chapter in 200 Meters and Down,
by Clinton B. DeSoto, published in 1936, for examples).

In addition to the February 10 training program, two other recent
actions affirm ARRL's embrace of its emergency communications and
public service administrative responsibilities to its volunteers in
ARES and other amateur radio emergency and disaster response groups and volunteers:

· The recent hiring of Josh Johnston, KE5MHV, new ARRL Director of
Emergency Management. Johnston has 16 years of experience as Director
of Johnson County (Arkansas) Department of Emergency Management.
Johnston is also certified in FEMA NIMS as a CISA AUXCOMM-prepared Communications Unit Leader (COML). He holds a Bachelor of Science in
Emergency Administration and Management from Arkansas Tech University.

· And, the addition last year of new ARRL Field Services Manager Mike
Walters, W8ZY, who helped coordinate the Winlink Thursday training
sessions that have taught hundreds of Winlink operators about the
nuances of the popular hybrid email/RF system. Mike has a history of
service in ARES in the Connecticut ARES program, serving as District
Emergency Coordinator for the state's Region 5.

It was a pleasure meeting these two personable, highly qualified new
members of the ARRL Headquarters staff. They bode well for ARRL's
agenda of support for its Field Organization ahead of this year's
disaster situations and responses to come. - Rick Palm, K1CE

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ARES Resources

· Download the ARES Manual [PDF] <http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Public%20Service/ARES/ARESmanual2015.pdf>

· ARES Field Resources Manual [PDF] <http://www.arrl.org/files/file/ARES_FR_Manual.pdf>

· ARES Standardized Training Plan Task Book [Fillable PDF] <http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Public%20Service/ARES/ARRL-ARES-FILLABLE-TRAINING-TASK-BOOK-V2_1_1.pdf>

· ARES Standardized Training Plan Task Book [Word] <http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Public%20Service/ARES/ARRL-ARES-STANDARDIZED-TRAINING-TASK-BOOK-V1_2_2.doc>

· ARES Plan <http://www.arrl.org/ares-plan>

· ARES Group Registration
<http://www.arrl.org/ares-group-id-request-form>

· Emergency Communications Training <http://www.arrl.org/emergency-communications-training>

The Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES) consists of licensed
amateurs who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and
equipment, with their local ARES leadership, for communications duty in
the public service when disaster strikes. Every licensed amateur,
regardless of membership in ARRL or any other local or national
organization is eligible to apply for membership in ARES. Training may
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How to Get Involved in ARES: Fill out the ARES Registration form <http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Public%20Service/fsd98.pdf> and submit
it to your local Emergency Coordinator.

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