Alert: ICS 205s

2024-Oct-16: Please see and print out the latest ICS-205 forms which contain OR Emergency Management frequencies for when comms are out.

The latest in-person meeting notes are under the Presentations tab.

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Gaston Fire District 2024 ARES Field Station

Images from our Gaston Fire District 2024 Emergency Preparedness Fair.

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Bill, KD7EFP staffs the main table.
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Gaston P2P and Digipeat Mini-Exercise

Washco ARES members have gone out on two weekends to test propagation from Gaston to other useful points. Check back for more information. The first photos is of N9PPand antenna the first weekend. The next three are from the second weekend.

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New! ACES class registration open

Update! Registration is now open at: http://www.oregonaces.org/.     Basic Course Outline Add’l Basic Info

Note that there are three courses that same weekend (Hillsboro in Washington County, Lincoln County, and Bellingham WA); make sure you sign up for the correct one!

Washington County Emergency Management is sponsoring an ACES Basic certification course. The course fee is $35 with the workbook or $15 without the workbook.
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Your Radio Can Tell Winlink Your GPS Location

Well, some radios.

This last week two of our members used an other-than-the-usb-puck or dongle to access their GPS location. Continue reading

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2024 Shakeout Amateur Radio Community Intensity Map

The Amateur Radio Community Intensity Map (ARCIM) (pronounced ‘arc’ ‘i’ ‘m’) is now live!

The ARCIM is a project for hams by hams and open to all interested in sending DYFI for 2024SHAKEOUT!

Here’s the project website Shake Out Dashboards

We have included Step-by-step instructions for 2024SHAKEOUT in an easy to use PDF format. Continue reading

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Training

When do you want YOUR next training opportunity? *Flash* See Training Page updates!

Whether you attended or missed the recent P2P exercise we can get a group together to work on anything the group wants. It could be the same, it could be a mini exercise or focused lesson. We could meet in person or by video for questions and answers.

We could meet at a different time from the traditional 0900 Saturday morning. We could meet Sunday late am or Sunday early afternoon. Or we could meet {fill-in-the-day-here}.

It could be a 30–45 minute short lesson or Q&A. It does NOT have to be a “No-Notice” knock on your door at 0430 for a 60-hour retreat in the woods!

Let me know.

Is anyone interested in Digipeating? I am considering setting up my radio/Winlink to be turned on 24-7 to one of our P2P channels.

Standing by to hear from you. Over.

[“Over” means it is now your turn to talk.]

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Monthly In-Person Meetings

Email notice of the meeting and online viewing invitations will be sent out 24hrs prior to the meeting. If you have not received an email by the morning of the scheduled meeting, contact our EC KD7EFP at his washcoares.org email address (KD****@wa********.org).

Notice for September 16th has been emailed. If you did not receive it, email above to receive it and allow us to debug.

Also see new page Winlink – Resources to Learn.

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Bald Peak Field Exercise pre-AAR

We had nine battery operated Winlink Express stations set up at Bald Peak Scenic Viewpoint. One of the stations generated all needed power with solar. Another station tested it’s Honda generator. Continue reading

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RSVP to Bald Peak P2P Exercise

Please RSVP to kd7isa at washcoares dot org (or kd7isa at winlink.org) for Saturday’s training event.

Please download

Document Notes
2024 Sep 14 v3c Print out at least the 2 log pages.
Incident briefing 2024 09 14 Incident briefing 2024 09 14 I have listed our activities by the clock.
map of Bald Peak Scenic Viewpoint Close up map
Close up map close up map.
Sign off worksheet P2P CERT ARC. 4a print out in case I do not have enough
Sign off worksheet Mappable v. 4a print out in case I do not have enough – may print out on back of above form

A clarification: Our voice channel(s) will be:

81 WC 5 147.400 — — Washington Tac 1 Simplex We will use this channel unless it is too busy.
82 WC 6 147.500 — — Washington Tac 2 Simplex
83 WC 7 446.025 — — Washington Tac 3 Simplex

Our P2P frequencies will be:
89 WC 13 145.600 — — P2P-1
90 WC 14 145.680 — — P2P-2
91 WC 15 145.700 — — P2P-3

Current and Planned Objectives:
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