The county, after many years, has a new EOC facility and it includes a Amateur Radio Room.
We are currently designing the layout of the room and working on checklists and guides.
If anyone has any guides/checklists I would appreciate copies.
I am starting with a clean slate, so any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
That’s good news, Mike! When I get back from vacation, I’ll email some drawings and suggestions. WC-ARES was instrumental in the design of the ARES room in the Williamson County Emergency Services Operations Center in Georgetown. I can share what worked and what could have been improved. I plan to be home on October 5.
Ken Malgren K7MAL PIO2
District 7 Emergency Coordinator ARRL South Texas COML, RESL(T), SITL(T), ARRLSTX
WC-ARES Board Member
LeeCares Vice President
LSARA President
kmalgren@gmail.com
Mike,
I’ve been “quite absent” from all EM functions for years with family problems, et all. In my younger days, I ran almost headon into political messes that had nothing to do with EM communications. Thus, I hope you have circumvented the dolts who wanted everything for themselves, causing too many fine people to walk away in disgust. With luck, some local folks in my area can help out “sooner than later”, thus at least reducing the death, injury, destruction rate. Good luck!!
73’s
Gil WA5YKK Former Dist. 31A coordinator
That's good, but which county?
This mailing list is for the whole South Texas section ARES.
73 de WX5U
Hays County
Jim Hester
K5HTK
When we investigated the radio room at the local (Wilson County) EOC back in 2012 or so, we followed a feed line out and found it attached to a chain link fence. No tuner, either. Not clear on the antenna concept, apparently.
Robert, KF5SAR
Harris County Homeland Security and Office of Emergency Management,
aka "Transtar" or N5TRS has five operating positions with two
dedicated V/UHF FM one V/UHF phone/winlink, one HF and one
multipurpose, Red Cross, Coast Guard etc.
We are just down the hall from the EOC so its a good fit. Typically
we only have two positions filled unless we're just starting up for an
event or heavy into the middle of one like Harvey then we will have a
third mostly during the days. We have a newly appointed dedicated
station manger badged as an Asst DEC. They are currently updating all
of our station specific training. At a min you must have IS100 /
IS200 / IS700 & IS800 plus Station Specific Training. One of the two
operators on duty must have done AuxCom as well.
Robert,
What “headless horseman” did that transmission line goof? Perhaps his intent was to fulfill a “contract”, with no idea of the use for an antenna? In a hurry, I’d suspect that licensed operators would fire up the rigs, not tune for minimum smoke, then burn out finals!!
Any answers yet?
73’s
Dil WA5YKK