The Eastern MA Section Amateur Radio Emergency Service conducted an operations exercise to test its capability in establishing communications with stations within its section and outside it under simulated emergency conditions. The operational exercise called “Incoming” tested the ability of several home stations, EOCs (Emergency Operations Centers), possible field sites and other stations to communicate. The exercise attempted to build upon the lessons learned from our past operational exercises.
The exercise was based on the scenario of the National Winlink ETO (EmComm Training Organization) exercise being held the same day.
Exercise "Incoming" Scenario:
On November 11th, hundreds of asteroid fragments resulting from a distant collision began entering the Earth’s atmosphere and impacting the northern Hemisphere and especially North America. These fragments varied in size from a few meters across to just pebbles. The larger fragments began impacting and causing heavy damage over parts of the US, Canada and Mexico. Several impact explosions in the low kiloton range have occurred in the US. Similar strikes in the ocean have caused localized damaging tsunamis in Puerto Rico and Oahu in HI.
Cape and Islands ARES Exercise Results from Frank, WQ1O:
"We conducted our ARES SET exercise on Saturday, November 12....Exercise had mixed results, but with very good elements as well. HF, especially 60m was stellar. We had some 2m VHF noise issues at our main field site, but operators in surrounding areas provided assistance to carry out the drill. My thanks to all of our people who performed well on Saturday."
The photos below are courtesy of Frank, WQ1O.
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Nationwide "Operation Incoming" Semi-Annual P2P Drill Results
The Point to Point target stations received 795 messages of all types from stations across the United State and Puerto Rico. Messages for the drill were the FSR (Field Situation Report) and the ICS213 (General Message) with an optional image. The results
Total FSR messages received: 360, images: 0
Total ICS messages received: 361, images: 204
The connections diagram below illustrates the national coverage of the exercise. Red markers indicate a Target(receiving) station and blue markers indicate a Field (sending station).
If you are interested in more information re: Cape and Islands ARES, contact Frank, WQ1O on wq1o at comcast.net
If you are interested in the nationwide Winlink/VARA-HF exercises, see https://emcomm-training.groups.io/g/main/topics for information.
