Category Archives: Training

ARRL 2015 Hurricane Webinar now on YouTube

If you were not one of the 360 attendees to the 2015 ARRL Hurricane Webinar, you can watch it online! ARRL posted the Webinar to YouTube in late July. Be sure to tune in and take notes.

The first segment of the webinar is on PR. Make sure that you’re following the guidelines mentioned, including reaching out to your media reps and elected officials, if you haven’t done so already. While we always hope for a quiet hurricane season, as the webinar presenters note, there have been several storms that have hit during years predicted to be quiet. Make sure the media knows who you are and what your group does before the storm.

Vital Information for Informal Messages

Stations are often requested to pass informal messages as part of routine communication during an event. Below is a list of questions to be asked and verified before sending or acknowledging an informal message.

Vital Info for Informal Messages

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Get a better signal out of your handheld radio

thumb1 “We’ve all done it. Standing on our tippy toes. The dance, slowly swiveling around, alternating holding our arms up in the air and hands close to our ears. I’m talking about the weird contortions we do until we get the best signal out of our handheld radio.”

Read the full article from KB9VBR

US National Grid

Last week, the Clay County Emergency Operations Center held a training on the US National Grid. This is a a common geographic framework for response. Unlike confusion that can be brought about by the use of Latitude and Longitude measurements, a USNG coordinate can only point to one specific location.

Clay County is in the process of rolling this out to all of their departments –police, fire, emergency management. As they roll this out, ClayARES will also need to be aware and ready to use the USNG.

We will cover the USNG in upcoming ClayARES training sessions.

For a general overview and more information, you can go to http://usngcenter.org

Net Control Training

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Training for all net control operators will be held after the regular March ClayARES meeting. The regular meeting will end early enough so that the training will not go late.

This training is for all current Net Control Operators as well as anyone interested in being a net Control Operator.

Please contact Scott Roberts (KK4ECR) or Joe Basset (W1WCN) with any questions.