[SARES] [Fwd: [Scc-ec] Info about April Drill]

All,
    Below is the latest, and greatest, information about the upcoming 
Santa Clara County ARES / RACES quarterly drill / exercise.  Our 
District Emergency Coordinator (DEC) Larry Carr attended our March 28th 
meeting and several SARES members completed the Santa Clara County 
Disaster Service Worker (DSW) form.  The completion of this form will 
not assure your response outside the City of Sunnyvale.  SARES has an 
established list of those that have passed a background check and have 
been approved.

    Those that are interested in becoming a MAC, please feel free to 
indicate so to me at my e-mail address. 

    Members that would like to participate in the below described 
exercise MUST advise me via e-mail.  I have somethings that must be put 
in place for your participation, so notification is strongly requested. 

Bob ~KG6MOL~
EC

INFORMATION ABOUT THE APRIL 21 ARES/RACES DRILL

The drill will start at 0900. ALL the cities in the county are urged to 
participate. The drill will be based on a call for mutual aid from one of 
the cities in the county (called "Santa Mara" for the purposes of this 
drill). This call for mutual aid will require the response by ALL the Santa 
Clara County ARES/RACES MACs, as well as all those who would like to become 
MACs.

The drill will be based on a scenario where all the city EOCs are staffed as 
part of a nationwide Red alert. Therefore, ECs are expected to be monitoring 
the Santa Clara County ARES/RACES Message net at the start of the exercise 
at 0900. The announcement requesting mutual aid will be made on the Message 
Net. ECs should then start contacting their MACs, to obtain a MAC to be 
released by the city for this drill.

NOTE: Each EC should contact his/her city Emergency Manager, or designate to 
obtain permission to release this MAC. If the EC is able to establish this 
contact, the EC should advise the Emergency Manager that the drill is in 
progress, and that hams from the city will be responding as part of the 
drill. If the EC is not able to make the contact, the EC is to leave a 
message for the Emergency Manager, and proceed with the drill, releasing the 
MACs and MACs-to-be as requested by Santa Clara County ARES/RACES. (I 
strongly urge all ECs to contact their Emergency Managers prior to the drill 
to arrange for this authorization.)  I will need to hear from each city EC 
prior to the drill, so that I will know which cities are participating - 
please email me ASAP.

The drill will be a RACES training event, and the request for RACES 
activation will be based on a call for hams to actually report to the 
assigned location. Therefore, the responding MACs must receive a formal 
assignment, be given the RACES activation number, and be registered as a DSW 
in order to participate in the drill. All responders will be covered as DSWs 
under Santa Clara County RACES activation, so city RACES activation will not 
be necessary for this drill.

The Message Net will operate on: 147.360(+) PL 110.9
The Command Net will operate on: 442.500(+) PL 100.0
The Resource Net will operate on: 146.115(+) PL 100.0
 with possible link to 145.27(+) PL 100
We will accept packet messages on: 144.910, 223.660 simplex

Larry Carr
District Emergency Coordinator, ARES, Santa Clara County
Chief Radio Officer, Santa Clara County OES
(Cell/pager) 650-269-9638
lwcarr@INTERNET. alum.mit.edu

 


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