Chatham County ARES Tornado Drill

Georgia ARES will be having a statewide tornado drill this week on Wed, Feb 4th at 9:00am. Net Control will begin taking checkins at 9:00am on 3.975Mhz. All are encouraged to check in.

In conjunction with this statewide drill, we will be having a local 2 meter net on our primary ARES frequency of 146.970. This net will begin at 8:00am. I'll be the Net Control Operator and KF4LMT will be the backup. This net will be our local "resource net" and everyone will check into this net and provide some information about location, capabilities, availability, etc. Based on this info I may move you over to a local "tactical net". We will have a tactical net operating on the 147.330 repeater. This net will primarily provide support for portables and mobiles. Mac, KF4LMT, will be the net control operator. We will exercise several methods of comm between the two net control stations including Echolink, UHF Repeater, and 2 meter simplex. We plan to run some scenarios simulating losing Internet connectivity, losing commercial power, and losing certain repeaters.

I'd welcome any of you that can participate to do so, even if it's only to check in and out. If you can be available to "deploy" to certain locations around town mobile or portable let me know. That will help the scenario as well.

Guy McDonald, K4GTM
ARES Emergency Coordinator
Chatham County GA
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