[Ccarc] FW: [Inares] July Statewide RACES Communications Test

[Tom Murray]

To: dwest at dhs.IN.gov
From: dwest at dhs.in.gov
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:55:40 -0400
Subject: [Inares] July Statewide RACES Communications Test
























All Indiana
EMA Directors,                                                          cc:
RACES & ARES Groups

 

Please find attached the detailed results of the Summer
Statewide RACES (RADIO Amateur Civil Emergency Service) Test conducted July 26,
2008.

 

Executive Summary –

 


 While we are still less than
     50% participation in the summer test, participation this summer was up
     from 15 counties to 44 counties, nearly 200% increase.
 Total number of Amateurs
     participating was 246, vs. 106, last summer.
 We included Packet (Text
     messaging via amateur radio) in this test, but the results were disappointing.
     Issues contributing to the poor results were: The packet test was hastily added
     at the last minute, it did not include the RMS version of Packet, and much
     of the equipment needed to participate is still in the distribution
     process. We are committed to an “error checking text messaging”
     format such as conventional Packet and RMS Packet, as an integral part of
     a viable Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Plan for Indiana.  


 

Despite the results of the “Packet Experiment”,
the IDHS RACES Team is extremely pleased with the overall results, especially
considering the very poor band conditions on the High Frequency bands on that Saturday. 
If the participation continues to increase at the present rate, the Winter Test
scheduled for January 17, 2009.

 

(Special thanks for all the support from ARES and MARS
members throughout the state.)

 

Best regards,

 

Don West

 

Communications Director

Response & Operations Division

Indiana Dept of Homeland
Security

 

317-232-3849



 







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