Southern Crescent Amateur Radio Club

On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Public Health and Public Safety Personnel will be conducting an exercise to test response for a bioterrorist event. Volunteers will be needed to make this exercise as realistic as possible.

If you are interested in participating please join us for an informational luncheon to learn more about the exercise and your role on:

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Henry County Health Department

135 Henry Parkway, McDonough, Georgia

• What is a Point of Dispensing?
• Why are volunteers needed?
• What is the role of a volunteer?
• What training is available for volunteers?

Please RSVP to Glinda Scott gascott@dhr.state.ga.us or Carla Heath cpheath@dhr.state.ga.us or call (770) 288.6143.

If you are interested in volunteering but cannot make the luncheon please call. We would love to have you participate.

Georgia ARES monthly report for August, 2010
Reported by:  Clayton/Henry County EC, Roy Baker, AJ4GT
Report submitted by: AJ4GT, Roy Baker – EC

Total number of ARES members in your group is: 40
Change since last month: 0
Name of your Local ARES Net: SCARC/CARES Training Net
Net Frequency: 444.875  +  PL  100
Day of the week:  Monday
Time of the Net: 9 PM Local
Total of Nets this month: 5
NTS Liaison: GA ARES, GTN
Drills, Tests and Training sessions: 6
Drills, Tests and Training Man Hours: 74.5
Public Service Events: 2
Public Service Man Hours: 36.5
Emergency Operations: 0
Emergency Operations Man Hours: 0
Misc Activities: 1
Misc man hours: 2
TOTAL ARES OPERATIONS: 9
TOTAL ARES MAN HOURS: 113

We got a chance to help in training with the Piedmont K9 Search and Rescue team. They are mostly all Hams and have very well trained dogs. We had four nets and our monthly general meeting at the Henry County EOC. Last month we had our meeting at the Clayton EOC. Henry County Hospital has approved funding for a ham station to be set up at the Henry Medical Center. We will have another tech class at the end of the mouth and with all the places that want us on board, another recruiting surge. Its great to have problems like this.

Georgia ARES monthly report for August, 2010
Reported by:  Butts County EC, Buzz Kutcher, K3GWK
Report submitted by: K3GWK, Buzz Kutcher – EC

Total number of ARES members in your group is: 9
Change since last month: 0
Name of your Local ARES Net: Spaulding & Butts County Communicator Training Net
Net Frequency: 146.910   -    88.5
Day of the week:  Sunday
Time of the Net: 21:45 UTC
Total of Nets this month: 5
NTS Liaison: GA ARES, GTN
Drills, Tests and Training sessions: 0
Drills, Tests and Training Man Hours: 0
Public Service Events: 0
Public Service Man Hours: 0
Emergency Operations: 0
Emergency Operations Man Hours: 0
Misc Activities: 2
Misc man hours: 17
TOTAL ARES OPERATIONS: 2
TOTAL ARES MAN HOURS: 17

The Butts County CERT HamCram scheduled for September 25 is full.  Testing will be conducted by the Newton County VE Team.  The MOU with Butts County was approved by the county BOC but has not yet been signed.

Amateur Radio HF Frequencies – (single sideband mode)

Correct posting to FCC site is:

http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db0714/FCC-10-124A1.doc

The FCC has amended the rules concerning Amateur Radio operations in
emergency drills as follows:
“A station licensee or control station operator may participate on behalf of an employer in an emergency preparedness or disaster readiness test or drill, limited to the duration and scope of such test or drill, and operational testing immediately prior to such test or drill.  Tests or drills that are not government-sponsored are limited to a total time of one hour per week, except that no more than twice in any calendar year, they may be conducted for a period not to exceed 72 hours.”  See
http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db0714/FCC-10-124A1.pdf
We hope that the restrictions here will prevent commercial use of Amateur Radio or our equipment by employers.  Keep tuned as ARRL  studies implications of this new ruling.    Gene W4AYK