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	On 
	Thursday May 16, 2019 members of the Saginaw County ARES group participated in 
	the MBS Airport/Saginaw Country  simulated emergency exercise.  
	The ARES group provided supplemental communications and tracking for the bus 
	transportation. The 911 radio room, communications trailer, Covenant Cooper 
	ER, St Mary's ER and bus was staffed for the event. 
	Streaming video was provided from the incident scene at MBS airport to the 
	EOC's in Midland and Bay counties as well as the 911 net control station and 
	communications trailer.  Our Objectives: 
		
		Test call up procedure and staging operations (operators meet before 
		call up)
		Test 2-meter communications utilizing the 147.24 and 145.33 repeaters 
		from incident scene to 911, backup EOC, hospital ER locations
		Test Hospital Packet system – including incident scene, 911, backup EOC 
		and hospital ER’s
		Test DMR HT communications from incident scene, 911 and backup EOC
		Test APRS site identification from incident scent and backup EOC
		Test mobile communications trailer functionality, including generator 
		runtime and systems functionality (radios, packet, computers and 
		printer).
		
		Test mobile voice and APRS communications from Bus to Net Control
 Operators
 
	
	KC8YVF, Ron HussW8DW, Dave 
	Paquette
 WB8LZA, 
	
	Mary Paquette
 KD8MMH, Mike Dougherty
 KC8YVD, Gordy Schram
 KE8KUD, 
	Bob Janz
 KC8VOA, Rick Schattilly
 N8OSL, Joe Tuscher
 N8EUI, 
	Tom Schmidt
 KB8SWR, Jeff Metiva
 N8RDZ, 
	Brooks Ehlert
 K8AVJ, Mike Elias
 
 
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