On Saturday October 3rd, a major winter storm hit the Saginaw area. 10 inches of snow had fallen and more was expected. Workers were not able to get into work and infrastructure suffered failures. Large areas of the county were without power. Amateur radio was asked to supply critical communications between the EOC, hospitals, Red Cross, blood bank and health department.
All stations were running on emergency power.
This years local emergency test coincided with a State SET which tested the States ability to pass emergency traffic through HF, traffic nets and Hamgates.
Thanks to everyone evolved with planning and executing
this years event.
Band Plan
| Primary Net Control | 146.55 MHz simplex |
| Backup Net Control | 146.58 MHz simplex |
| Backup Net Control | 147.24 MHz repeater |
| Hamgate | 145.090 MHz simplex |
| EC Tactical Net | 220 Tac 1 |
| Hospital Packet Net | 220 Data 1 |
| 911-Red Cross Net | 220 Data 2 |
| State EOC Net | 3.932 MHz |
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The group getting their assignments |
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Dave, N8ERL manning the HF station at the Red Cross |
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The de-briefing session in progress |
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The group taking it all in |
Revised 01/17/21
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