By J.M. Rowe, N5XFW Section Manager, Arkansas ARRL
Hello all:
Well, I had a wonderful time at the Batesville hamfest. The food was good, the weather was outstanding, the fellowship was great, and it all appeared effortless! I talked to KE5NZY about that, and he tells me they used the Incident Command System and the planning "P". http://www.region5-6.org/forms/assets/PlanningP.pdf
I think that is marvelous. Imagine actually putting ICS to use in real life! John says now that they know how to plan, they can do a big one! Take a lesson from the Batesville group: this stuff works, and we should include those concepts in planning for any event.
I was given the opportunity to serve as a VE as well. A very polite 8 year old fellow told me he came there to take a test. He said he had been doing practice tests online, and his grandfather said it was OK to come take the test. Long story short, he walked out after passing the Tech test with flying colors! His CSCE was signed by the Section Manager, the Delta Division Vice Director K5UZ, and the President of the BARC KE5NZY. I can tell you all three of us were thrilled to see that young ham's face when we told him he passed! He is now on the road to a lifetime of enjoyment in ham radio.
Listen up! Wayne WA5LUY (the engineer) with help from Bob W5LVB, Phil WA5VRQ and J.M. N5XFW, ( the lifters and toters and go-getters) completely changed out the 2 meter repeater in Hot Springs. What was the 146.760 machine is now the 146.880 machine. That means you guys doing the linking over RF may need to reprogram. The IRLP and the EchoLink numbers remain the same, howvever. This change was necessary to solve a mixing issue, and it appears to have worked. I conducted range tests while coming home from Batesville, and it sounds great! The 146.760 will go where the 146.880 was, as soon as WA5LUY finishes his maintenance.
Let me hear about upcoming hamfests, events, or other stuff you would like to get publicized. I wll be happy to include them in a Section Manager email. They will also go on the Facebook page and the http://ar.arrl.org website.
That's all I have for now.
73,
J.M
Monday, October 4, 2010
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Thanks to everyone that was involved in the SET Exercise over the weekend. There are some things to work on as always. However, I would feel comfortable that my fellow hams know how to get the job done during a emergency. One thing Lindy mentioned and I agree with is we need a mutual list of surrounding states and their emergency plan frequencies. Most of what is listed online is out of date or wrong. When the earthquake hits (note I said when) most of our supplies will be trucked or flown in or from the west. Simply because most if not all of the bridges across the Mississippi river to our east, will be broken or closed for a length of time for inspection. Therefore we need to start working hard with our fellow hams around us and make sure we are all on the same page. Just my two cents worth. As I always say.."You can have the best radio on the market, but is useless if you don't know how to use it! 73 and God Bless N5ARK Troy
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