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Upcoming meetings/UCB emergency exercise 2010
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Here the finalized dates of events leading up to the UCB emergency exercise:
1) Monday, May 10th 6-6:30PM – NALCO (Northern ALameda COunty) ARES/RACES ‘training’ scheduled for fire patrol
Cedar street Alternate Emergency Operations Center (AEOC). For more information: http://www.pdarrl.org/ebsec/nalco/
(This meeting is specifically for city of Berkeley Fire Patrol training and is of only very limited value for other emergency events. Nevertheless, any/all training is valuable and NALCO is happy to accommodate anyone interested in participating.)
2) Thursday, May 27: 6pm – Discussion of emergency communication support using amateur radio: local procedures and protocols
508-20 Evans Hall (Seminar room of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience)
This discussion is specially arranged for the campus community amateurs who wish to be involved in any local amateur radio emergency communication operations, including the UC Berkeley campus.
The discussion will include an introductory description of procedures, protocols, frequencies and facilities for local emergency communications including the UC Campus, Berkeley, Albany as well as Tang and Alta Bates/Herrick/Summit hospitals.
Note that this is just an *introduction* to help UC hams become familiar with what is available and how it all functions in this specific local environment. The information will be necessary and hopefully sufficient to permit active involvement in the amateur radio communicationportion of the UCB emergency exercise on June 17th.
The discussion will be led by Mal Raff who has participated in UCB emergency exercises for many years, including 2009. In addition, he has been involved in amateur emergency communication for over 40 years and in the Berkeley area for over 30 years, having been a founding member (and presently EC/RO) of NALCO (Northern ALameda COunty) ARES/RACES. He has been an active participant in W6BB activities since he was a grad student at UCB in the early 1970′s.
3) Thursday, June 17th, 2010: 8am-11.30am – Annual emergency exercise at UC Berkeley
Location and other details will be announced through the W6BB mailing list.
Members of W6BB are explicitly asked to participate in the event. If you are interested in participating actively in emergency communication, please attend one of the preparatory meetings. You can also participate as an observer which does not require any preparation.
Please forward this mail to any radio amateurs on campus who might not be on the W6BB mailing list. (To sign up for the W6BB mailing list go to http://www.w6bb.org/, click CONTACT and follow the instructions under “W6BB mailing list”)
For questions contact: Fritz, k6ee@arrl.net