Re: [SARES] two more lessons learned from the drill

Hi James,

Thanks for all your hard work putting this exercise together.  It was good
practice for me.

With regards to your second point, I agree but would suggest the following:
Rather than sending a message like "there is debris in the street" (as my
script indicated) try to include IMPORTANT details such as: "there are tree
limbs blocking the east bound fast lane on Arques near Fire Station 2"

Or am I wrong about this and you really do want messages as terse as "there is
debris in the street"??  Granted I had previously checked in from FS 2 so the
location was known but I would think a certain amount of additional detail is
required.  The debris could have been on Arques or Wolfe, all lanes blocked or
only some, etc.

One other thought that I had:
For the next drill, what do you think about having those assigned to fire
stations actually going inside and operating with the fire station antenna. 
This would help to familiarize us with the location of antenna drops, verify
that the antennas are properly connected and give us an opportunity to interact
with some of the fire fighters.  I spoke with 2 of the guys at FS2.  They knew
what SARES was but did not seem to know that we were having a drill.  Now I
wish I had gone inside and used the fire station antenna.  Maybe next time.

Just my 2 cents worth,

Fish KG6RHQ


OBFUSCATED> wrote:
> The repeater coverage is not like the ones on mountain sides.  Parts of 
> town are in dead zones and it is best to have the batteries for your HT 
> that run it at 5W out and also have the 3 ft long antenna.
> 
> Another thing noticed was the human nature feature of not liking 
> unknowns.  This surfaced as the very common traffic feature of embellishing 
> the message with things not required by the recipient.  Condense messages 
> to the minimum information that the receiver needs to function 
> properly.  Say "a fire is in progress at 123 Main St."  Do not say ":A 
> Scottish person wearing English upper class clothes has come by on roller 
> skates and told me that a fire is in progress at 123 Main St.  From his 
> accent I would place him as coming from Glasgow but immigrated to Campbell 
> when he was in his teens." 
> 
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