On Thursday May 7, 2025 members of the Saginaw County ARES group participated in the MBS Airport/Saginaw Country simulated emergency exercise.  The 911 radio room, communications trailer and Covenant Cooper ER was staffed for the event.

Our Objectives:

1. Test call up procedure and staging operations (operators meet before call up)
2. Test 2-meter communications utilizing the 147.24 repeaters from incident scene to 911 and Covenant hospital ER location
3. Test Hospital Packet system – including incident scene, 911 and hospital ER’s
4. Test DMR HT communications from incident scene and 911
5. Test mobile communications trailer functionality, including generator runtime and systems functionality (radios, packet, computers and printer).

Operators

KC8YVF, Ron Huss
D8MMH, Mike Dougherty
KC8YVD, Gordy Schram
KC8VOA, Rick Schattilly
N8EUI, Tom Schmidt
KE8MYJ Renee Paquette
KE8QCO, Fred Bolger

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