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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:
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Test call up procedure and staging operations (operators meet before
call up)
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Test 2-meter communications utilizing the 147.24 and 145.33 repeaters
from incident scene to 911, backup EOC, hospital ER locations
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Test Hospital Packet system – including incident scene, 911, backup EOC
and hospital ER’s
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Test DMR HT communications from incident scene, 911 and backup EOC
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Test APRS site identification from incident scent and backup EOC
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Test mobile communications trailer functionality, including generator
runtime and systems functionality (radios, packet, computers and
printer).
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Test mobile voice and APRS communications from Bus to Net Control
Operators
KC8YVF, Ron Huss
W8DW, 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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