May 8th 2010 NWMOARES Meeting

Called to order by KC0QLU

Attendance

KC0QLU
KC0YEJ
KD0JVR
KC0PIK
KD0KMJ
KG0CX
WD0HHJ
KD0AFL
NJ0Z
KC0ZJK

After Action Review of Search and Rescue on May 2nd.

Things went pretty well. Needed code to link the 2M/70cm on Osborn.

Should we get group vests? Tractor Supply carries for about $20.

Financial Report

$738.09, received none, disbursed none last month.

Repeater Desense Issue

Need to spend a little money and buy the right jumpers for the repeater. Suspect the adapters in use now are part of the problem.

Motion to purchase proper adapters
KD0JVR
WD0HHJ

Pass unanimous

Contact info added to the website for those here. Can set up emails for everyone.

Field Day Plans

New truck unveiling for Plattsburg FD is on Field Day. Their event runs from 4PM to 8PM that night. They’ll be selling pork sandwiches, chips, cookies, soda pop.

List of what we’re going to set up? More bring something out and lets try it out.

Ron will do the QSL cards again.

Generators provided by group and by county.

Bug problem? Not really a problem the last couple years.

Need to talk to Porter and ask if he’s coming this year and bringing cooking materials

WINLINK is running at CRMC. 145.090 simplex.

Future meetings showcasing some of these special modes or equipment. Things like APRS, WINLINK, etc. Next meeting, we’ll set up the logging program and get it ready for field day.

Suggest we have an Extra training class. The meeting after field day, we’ll have a class afterwards, then another class the week after, then take the test. Blair will see if he can get the powerpoint slides. Then George will look into getting the manuals.

Month after, do a kit build. The TinyTracker 4? Will look into the costs associated. Individuals might buy their own kit, or we might get a price cut for a bulk purchase.

Remove the 2x on the Emergency or Priority traffic in Net Control script. Also drop the “On this frequency at this time”. Relays okay, but not proxy check-ins.

Meeting adjourned.

AAR for Missing Person Response May 2nd 2010

Responders:

KCØQLU Trevor Black
KCØYEJ Brian Lusk
NJØZ George Pease
KCØZYX Bernie Cassidy
NØSWP Steve Polley
KCØIMF Toby McMullen
(3 other members responded for their Public Safety entities.)

I received a call from the Clinton County EMD Blair Shock at approx. 2200 Sunday May 2nd 2010. The request was for manpower to attempt to locate a missing person south of Cameron, MO. Public safety and local Fire Departments had been searching since 7pm. We were requested to meet at the Elk’s Lodge 2 miles south of Cameron on 69 HWY were we would get our assignment. I began calling members of the group that had training in Search and Rescue. I also made an announcement on the local repeater for anyone that was able to respond. KCØQLU, KCYEJ, NJØZ, KCØZYX, NØSWP, KCØIMF were able to respond. I sent an email to the SEC and ASEC to inform them of our call out request. Upon arriving at the staging area (2245) we were put in standby until IC gave us an assignment. All members checked in with the Staging manager. At 2330 all volunteers were told to report to the IC for a search assignment for an area from 326th street to the Fireworks stand at I-35. After about 25 min. all volunteers were instructed to go back to staging area and await orders. We arrived back at staging area at 0012 hours and were informed there would be a de-briefing shortly. 0023 all search personnel were informed that the missing person had been recovered. Everyone was thanked for responding and dismissed at 0025.

Total Manpower hours:

7 x 2.5 = 17.5 hours

All in all the response went very well. I was very encouraged with the response especially given the time of day and there were storms in the area that would have made things difficult. The storms stayed to the north of our location.Steve Polley, NØSWP gave weather updates for the first 30 minutes of the event Everyone that responded brought water, flashlights, and rain gear and hand held radios. We ran a very relaxed net on the Osborn repeater as we were all within simplex range. There were only minor issues with signals to the repeater. The location of the staging area was in a low area that caused some repeats but not enough to hamper communications.

Lessons learned:I don’t have everyone’s number in my phone. We have just updated our website so contact info is not complete. We will fix this at our next meeting May 8th. Need to have someone outside the event to run net and keep track of people.

I was very happy with the response and professionalism that our group showed. Each one was there to help in anyway they could and would do it again when called upon.

Trevor Black
KC0QLU
NWMO ARES Group