Amateur Radio-Public Safety Communications Drill (NEWCOM) - Ham Radio Q&A
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- Our ARES/RACES group participated in a public safety emergency communications drill.
The sixteen counties of the Northeast Wisconsin Public Safety Communications group (NEWCOM) hosted mobile communications equipment from around the region and the state at Marathon County Park (Marathon County, City of Wausau). In this video we take a tour of some of the equipment and test the interoperability between different public safety agencies and amateur radio.
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Nice to see a large drill like this. We haven't had a big drill for a while.
This is an area of the hobby that I'm interested in getting into. I'd love to see more videos on this topic.
Also, love the teardrop. Maybe a tour of that beauty sometime, since many would love to travel and camp with their radio equipment. Thanks for the ARES/RACES demo video.
I did a walk through of the trailer three years ago, but we've done enough upgrades to it over the years that it warrants another. A new tour is coming in the next few weeks.
Thanks for the video!! This exercise looked like a great opportunity to network- knowing who to call and when is critical for emcomm and emerg mgt. 73 de N2MXX in NJ
Our group was there by invitation of our local emergency manager, and I did get to talk plenty about amateur radio and how its role fits into public safety emergency communications.
Liked the radio discipline demonstrated by the ham participants. Concise check ins, PLAIN language vs. Q-codes or other.
Appreciate you recording and sharing. I'd like to get into this someday when I have a bit more experience under my hat.
73 from KD9SEG
That was awesome ! Thanks for taking us along !
I would really like to see this in 2024. If I live in WI, could I just show up to learn stuff? So much radio tech all in one place!!! This would be heaven!
This is the first time I've heard of the term ACU. A hard term to search for... I would like to know more about such devices.
Seeing it 2024 as well, I have all the AARL books for radio theory. I’m interested in ARES/RACES/Auxxcomm
It is one thing to hear about what you can sign up for to help BUT to see it in action is WAY COOL and might help some out there and participate.
Also nice for people to see where some of their local tax money is going and I bet most don't even know that their local government has something set up. Very nice video, thanks for the share
What a boss, you have a secretary!
Very cool Michael! As a member of my local ARES, it's nice seeing a larger scale drill like this. 73
Very interesting to see this. Thank you for sharing.
Very interesting. Thanks KE8PAG
you guys are always ready looking at your gear is light years ahead to some of the communications used in Australia. it is improving as units are updated to p25. great video as always 73.
It hasn't been an overnight process, we are slowly learning. There has been over 20 years of natural disasters and other events that have reinforced the need of interoperable communications.
Very interesting event. Would love to join one day for networking and taking some ideas over to Europe. During recent floods in Germany public safety radio system has been damaged heavily in the disaster zone and also cell service was interrupted. As a small ngo we are always looking for new ideas to improve on communication.
Very interesting thank you for taking us along.
Skip - W5UTW - New Braunfels, TX CERT - Interop between agencies. Do you folk used different radios or mod HF radios to open those frequencies to other agencies? We're trying to set up an EMC trailer. How many/freq/height antennas required etc. Any guidance gratefully accepted.
What kinds of antennas did you use and can you tell me where i can purchase the antennas on ground by teardrop trailer and also how to set it up and the other thing is what do all the different radios you had out do and what is the best public safety radio to get.
The HF antenna is a Chameleon MPAS-2 vertical and the VHF/UHF antenna is my J-Pole antenna that I sell: www.jpole-antenna.com/ As for the best public service radio, that's a difficult question to answer, all I'll say is that it should be FCC Part 90 Type certified.
@@KB9VBRAntennas Thank you very much I am 16 trying to get my technician license and k am interested in emergency communications I love your content thank you
Really interesting coms. In Arkansas today we are doing an exercise just to get our hams involved in emergency communications and find out where we need to improve our interactions with the state agences.
Hopefully all of these rigs are emp protected
KB9VBR - Great idea to bring a camera along for this type of exercise! With so many new HAMS in the last few years (especially those getting tickets for prepper coms), perhaps glimpses like this will encourage more of us to get involved (and stay involved) in ARES and RACES. 73 K9PVM
I totally agree. Exercises like this are a good example of how amateur radio can fit into public safety emergency communications.
That's a pretty slick event.
Michael, how do you infer phase w/CERT in your state? Ty, KC7FBN
CERT is not very active in Wisconsin, just a few counties have active CERT programs. I think some use amateur frequencies and some GMRS. I believe any such interaction would be through the county emergency manager as both ARES/RACES and CERT would report to them.
As of 3:00pm on Easter Sunday of 2022 there has been an emergency service breaking in locally (NE Ohio) on gmrs ch2 462.5875. I heard them again at 7:00am this morning doing the same thing. They announced that they are the emergency service and tell police and other services not to reply, then they exit with call letters. Last night it was a man, this morning it was a woman, both sounded like they were definitely serious. I didn't get the call letters, but will be recording now. It seems that with what's going on in the East, they may have started something that I don't recall them doing before.
73s KE8OPY.
In SHTF situation there is a good probability that only simplex radioamateur analog simplex radio (VHF, UHF, HF) would work 😂😂😂
WOW keep enchanting , great bit rig with a lot of radios, but what about: antenna, filter, coupler mixer? in this environment how they interact ? see a trailer with over 10 radio inside but cant see relative antennas....
Antennas are not the problem 😀.
The big problem is bandpass filtering.
Without it, in a real world situation, it won't work 😀
(with infrstructure
Sorry...
(with infrastructer down you can only use simplex.
And then you find that those radios don't work at the same time)
It's not even worth doing any shit like this been there done that with amateur radio emergency services which was totally BS they don't like people that are handicapped and they jam people well they don't like screw them let it no longer have a license‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Very good overview of an EMCOMM demonstration. Thank you. 73 de KM4VRW from Tampa Bay, Florida.
Usa has many radio oprator so ypu can make thos type of activity but india we are only 22000 radio oprators and we get low progring invetation
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Interesting video. I can't understand why - in many places - more time and effort isn't put into training.
Also, I just had to say it -- I believe there are auctioneers out there who wish they could speak as rapidly as Amateur Radio Operators giving their call signs.
Can you get in to doing that with a technician classes license?
Yes you can. Amateur radio operators with a Technician license can be an ARES/RACES member. The great majority of ARES/RACES operations are done on VHF and UHF.
Very Interesting. However you can not legally link a public service band to an amateur radio, because you must have a license to operate on amateur radio, for public service you are granted the privilege to use the public service by the SWIC of the State in question. Next you can not legally use your amateur radio call sign on any other band, including Marine, GRMS, or public service. This is where the amateur radio net control person becomes valuable. Having been a police officer for twenty-one years and a ham since 1991, part of the time I was a police officer, I see the value of interoperable communications. I wonder what they will do in a true communications disaster where the Internet goes down, and there is no FirstNet and maybe no satellite access?
Those ACU interconnect units offer a wealth of flexibility when it comes to interoperability, but you are correct, there are legal issues involved. It would be better for net control or a liaison be issued a radio with the necessary public safety frequency to interface with the Incident command.
@@KB9VBRAntennas I agree. when we worked the Ocean City (MD) Air Show, we were given an 800 MHz radio on the talk group of the Section we were working under, in our case Operations. We worked as a single resource (common frequency with a supervisor) watching persons in the crowd. Good practice with ICS! In Delaware, only one county really values amateur radio enough to put a full station in their Mobile Command Unit (MCU). I am a certified COMT and learned the value of the ACU, however only with bands under control of the SWIC. No amateur radio!
Those inter-link systems are priceless in multi jurisdictional response, and came more out of necessity after 9/11 where fire/pd/ems were all on different frequencies and couldn't communicate with each other. Most first responder radio's are pre-tuned to certain frequencies and cannot go outside that range. Even Hurricane Sandy, which was a decade later, most of the north east had non-functional repeaters after a few hours after the battery backup were used up.
Most of the time, you just get issued another radio for the other agency. That works when the number of people are limited, it doesn't help if the volunteers outnumber federal/local/state workers at the scene and they only have their own HT's.
how are they useing lowfrequency to create microwave hearing voice to skull medusa silent hearing?
How often does this group do this exercise? I'd love to participate next time.
I have had some difficulty getting in touch with our local ARES/RACES team I really need to try again as I am very interested in getting involved.
I'm trying to change those radios over to regular frequency
I'm looking for a program to program Motorola's the Motorola mtx8250
73. Good luck 👍
very nice to see newcom safety drills ,like also in the Netherlands called Dares dutch amateur radio emergency society.
adriaan pa1ad
Low band radio?
That com truck from the CST had a lot more room than the one we worked out of here
Wyd
I had no idea the DNR had such a nice set up. I was wondering how they communicate in the North. Cell service can be very sketchy.
It used to be that once you got north of Hwy 8, cell service would disappear. I've been amazed, over the last couple years, of how many place I can go and still get a signal.
Thanks. Interesting to see the Wisconsin perspective here in Illinois.
I sometimes wonder why we need ham radio for emergencies when we have setups like some of the large comms trucks have? I know not every community has these but alot more do than they used to.
There are never enough during an emergency
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Big Blue has some gear! Nice video!
Impressive 👍🏻✌🏻🇨🇦
can a tech license or gmrs license join ARES and RACES.?
To be a member of ARES or RACES you do need a Technician or higher amateur radio license. A GMRS license, in addition to an amateur license, would be helpful but not necessary.
I want to get back to radio but im moving very slow.... its still pricey for me...
No, it is not.
You can restart on a tight budget, and later evolve...👍
I feel you on price. But as the saying goes, "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time." Save up a bit at a time and you'll eventually have what you need.
@@lonewolf025 yes... im getting ready with my QRP set up... hopefully I can go on air soon...
Good work, amazing equipment. Hope someone knows how to operate it!
When those response trailers roll, they are usually staffed with trained personnel
AWSOME 👍👍👍
wish my area did something like that
Sometimes it just takes someone talking to a couple of people to get them interested in getting the ball rolling. Two organizations might get together in the beginning, then a third might join in next time, etc. The important thing is that if nobody tries it, it won't happen.
Awesome video…. Love it….. Do you folks use dmr for ares or races?
We don't locally, just about everything we do for ARES/RACES is analog. But that should be a consideration because if another group nearby is using DMR or another digital mode, you should be prepared to operate with them if mutual aid is requested.
@@KB9VBRAntennas I would support the use of all available tools for local communication and interoperability with other groups. Where I am there is a DMR network used to talk to my area NWS office to support severe weather events. Most of the rf is analog otherwise. I have ability to use the DMR and local fm during a weather net. If packet is available, or winlink, etc., have that available as well. Thanks
Very cool, I am involved with ARES here in central Iowa, so this is wonderful to see.
Now that was some great stuff. Thanks for taking me with you Michael.