[MARA_announcements] Eastern MA ARES Annual Simulated Emergency Test

[n1xtb]

Folks,
Eastern Massachusetts ARES will be doing its Simulated Emergency Test 
(SET) for Saturday 11/12/22 at 1000 AM-1200 PM coincident with the 
national Winlink exercise. Our scenario will be customized from the ETO 
National Winlink exercise. Details of the exercise are provided on a 
link within the Nov 6 latest news posting on 
https://ema.arrl.org/category/emcomm/

The South Shore ARES district will be conducting a voice net on the 
Bridgewater .18 repeater. For those that want to participate please tune 
up the NOAA weather radio channels during this week to get the data 
requested in the drill document.
I would suggest listening long enough to get the callsign and frequency 
also. We will ask for the callsign or frequency since different radios 
have different channel/frequency standards.

The exercise doc has the form for the data we collect during the net:
Reporting station, location, NOAA WX1, NOAA WX2, NOAA WX3, 
Indoor/outdoor antenna used. Signal strength would also be useful.

If you can participate, please check in to the net between 10 and 12 and 
provide your report. A long time commitment is not required. We are just 
looking for participation.

For those that have a schedule conflict or want to do more than a local 
voice check in, I would suggest sending a field situation report form 
via winlink to N1XTB or participate via the many other means listed in 
the exercise doc.

Net operations will also be conducted on the Dartmouth 147.000 repeater.

Thanks for your interest in public service and emergency communication.

-- 
73,
Phil McNamara
Emergency Operations Center Communications
508-947-9950 (office)
508-947-9947 (home)
n1xtb at powersrvcs.com
n1xtb at winlink.org