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FW: [ORARESD3] Re: RADO's needed for Lone Rock fire incident
****Official ARES Request**** A (1) radio operator is needed in Condon Oregon at the command post. -You need to be an ARES member in good standing. (legal reasons) - This is not being done under Union County, but under ARES. -This will not be on the amateur bands, but on government channels / radios, passing official traffic. - You must have experience passing traffic -Will be a very long day(s), with probably very little break time. -It might be intense. -You should supply your own sleeping arrangement. Tent, trailer…… -Start time is 5am in Condon Please read the below email from Stuart for anything that I might have missed. Please contact Stuart Bottom DEC ARES if you are available. sbottom@... If you are thinking about it or want to do it, please let me know. 541-910-2784 Tyson Brooks W7BL From: orares-district-3@... <orares-district-3@...> On Behalf Of Stuart Bottom Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2024 1:15 PM To: ORARES District 3 <orares-district-3@...> Subject: [ORARESD3] Re: RADO's needed for Lone Rock fire incident Hi all, here are some more details on this request. Operators will be working at the Incident Command Post located at the fairgrounds in Condon, Gilliam County. The work is to run agency radios in a dispatcher type role. The radios are already set up and they are looking for experienced "drop-in" operators who can handle communications and logging, and who are willing to work hard on a real incident. The Incident Command Post is operating 24 hours a day, and they are currently working 16-hour days with the day shift starting at 0500. (As previously mentioned, they are also looking for operators for the night shift). They are looking for operators starting with tomorrow's day shift (beginning at 0500 on Friday July 19). It's a camping type situation for the responders, so the recommendation is that you plan to camp or bring a trailer so you have your own self-contained accommodations if you are planning to work multiple days. (You are welcome to set up today, and work as many days as you like until the incident is over.) They do have sleep trailers available as an alternative. Please let me know if you are still interested. Thanks very much, Stuart K7FG From: Stuart Bottom <sbottom@...> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2024 11:12 AM To: ORARES District 3 <orares-district-3@...> Subject: RADO's needed for Lone Rock fire incident Greetings all, Incident Command for the Lone Rock fire is requesting 4 radio operators to fill a RADO role in ICS. 2 on day shift, 2 on night shift. If you are interested please reply directly to me at sbottom@.... Thank you! -Stuart K7FG Get Outlook for Android -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ORARES District 3" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to orares-district-3+unsubscribe@.... To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/orares-district-3/EA2PR84MB33734B54B576B69F6FBEC527DFAC2%40EA2PR84MB3373.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.
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Thursday night VHF net 3
What is everyone's thoughts on moving the net to 6pm? I'm going to be a little bit more busy this summer and 6pm might make it easier on me. Tyson W7BL
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May 14th Meeting
Tonight we will discuss and plan for the Set this coming weekend. Tyson W7BL
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Tonight’s meeting 4/9/2024
We will be going over the SET that is slated for May 18th and the work to be done on the trailer this Saturday. Tyson W7BL From: OregonARES@groups.io <OregonARES@groups.io> On Behalf Of Bonnie / AB7ZQ Sent: Monday, April 8, 2024 4:58 PM To: OregonARES@groups.io Subject: [OregonARES] Exercie document for May 18th Hi everyone, I attached the exercise document. There are two things I want to point out: 1. Don't get confused by the references to messages coming from emergency management in real-world events. We can send practice messages during an exercise. During a real-world event, no messages would be sent to ODEM without the approval of local emergency management. Also, requests from cities will need to go through the county; however, ODEM is fine with being copied on messages from the city to the county so they know what will be coming and can get prepared. Specifically what Doug Jimenez stated is that based on ORS 401, OEM can only work with the county, UNLESS the county is unable to, or unwilling to respond to an emergency. 2. Don't get overwhelmed by the lists of tasks. To summarize those tasks, in preparation for the exercise, the EC will need to determine what is a likely scenario in their county that will require activation. That can be done by personal knowledge and experience, by reviewing the county emergency plan, or by discussions with emergency management. The second thing the EC will need to do is to determine whether there are any tasks they need to complete locally within their county and ideally, identify a performance objective to show whether or not the task was completed successfully. I will be providing some additional documents. Half of my active group in Polk County is fairly new to ham radio so I will be distributing a document that shows the steps to make sure the forms are updated on the WinLink station and looking up the correct forms for the exercise. Bonnie AB7ZQ
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ARES hours are due today!
Just a friendly reminder that the monthly hours are due today. I will be processing them at 9pm tonight. https://unionares.org/monthlyreporting W7BL
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Tonight's topics 2
I. Open issues a) Charge batteries in EOC b) ARDEN / HamNet i) Tyson and Mike got some antennas c) Winlink Wednesday d) Work on comms trailer. i) Install cell antenna and wifi II. New Business A. Polk County is looking for some 40m contacts on March 16th a. 10:30 local on 7.248mhz B. Spring SET / EOSAR a. May 18th, SOO EOC will be doing a set i. Doug and Bonnie are working out the details still. ii. Eastern Oregon SAR conference is that weekend. iii. Thinking that we hooked up with them and set up a station at their location. C. Winlink P2P testing a. Once a month, I can set up my radio for the full day.
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Form 2 DEC/EC Report for Oregon, February, 2024
Good Evening, Here is what I have submitted to the ARRL. I did have to move a few hours around to different columns, but they are all there. Form 2 - ARES Monthly DEC/EC Report The following information was submitted by Tyson Brooks, W7BL, OR EC for Oregon, February, 2024 at 2024-03-07 04:47:01 Jurisdiction: Union County D3 Total number of ARES members: 10 Number of ARES net sessions held: 9 Number of ARES net sessions held with NTS liaison: 0 Number of participants in nets: 79 Number Person-Hrs ------------------------------------------------------- Exercises this month: 1 6.00 Training events this month: 1 8.00 Public service events this month: 0 0.00 Community service events this month: 1 31.00 Emergency events this month: 0 0.00 SKYWARN events this month: 0 0.00 Meetings this month: 1 8.00 Unclassified events this month: 4 31.50 Activity Details: ---------------------------------- Union County ARES 75m net and Union County ARES VHF net. Administrative and Other Comments: ---------------------------------- Manned a booth at the La Grande Gun Show for two days. Showing and discussing ham radio to people walking by. Made several contacts including DX contacts in front a group.
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February ARES Hours are due today 3
If you haven't done so already, please post your training hours by 8pm tonight. https://unionares.org/monthlyreporting Totals so far for February. Operator Exercise Hours Training Hours Public Event Hours Community Event Hours Emergency Event Hours SKYWARN Event Hours Meeting Hours Unclassified Event Hours Non ARES Net Hours W7BL 0 0 0 19 0 0 2 2 7 W7JSN 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7JG 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7DB 0 5 0 2 0 1 1.5 0 36 KG7ENC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 W7FSB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KK7MA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7CEM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KJ7WHF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Winlink to SMS Gateway
Good Evening, Michael Phelps (NA7Q) has created a Winlink to SMS gateway. He lives over on the west side of Oregon. He wants us to give it a try. In Winlink send an email to: KE7DOV@... In the subject line enter the phone number you want to send the message to. In the body, Just type what you want to send. This will work both ways. If you want to send a message to a call sign, just send a text to 503-994-1970. In the message you need to do a @callsign then the message. Something like this. @W7BL This is only a test. Give it a try! W7BL
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Monthly Hours are due!!
If you haven't done so already, please log in and report your hours for January. I need to submit them tonight. https://unionares.org/monthlyreporting The following call signs seem to have all or some of their hours in. W7BL KD7JG KJ7WHF W7BL W7JSN Tyson W7BL
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Recent email from Groups.IO is not a scam 3
Good afternoon. Everyone should have received an email from Groups.IO today. This is not a scam. The email that they sent you, please reply to it. You do not need to add anything to the email. Just hit reply on your favorite email program, then hit send. That will verify your email address in the system and allow you to continue access. Tyson Brooks W7BL
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The ARES Letter for January 17, 2024
If you are having trouble reading this message, you can see the original at: http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/ares-el/?issue=2024-01-17 January 17, 2024Editor: Rick Palm, K1CE ARES Letter Archive ARES Home ARRL Home Page ARES? Briefs, Links Letters: USGS Thanks Winlink Amateur Volunteers for Shakeout Service National Hurricane Center's WX4NHC SKYWARN Recognition Day Operations Successful FEMA: Results of 2023 National Household Survey on Disaster Preparedness. Ham Radio Comms Trailer Decisions Florida Pair Travel to Serve New York City Marathon K1CE For a Final: Subscribe to The NTS Newsletter ARES? Resources ARES? Briefs, Links The Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC) is now archiving issues of QST NFL, the newsletter of the Northern Florida ARRL Section. DLARC is a project of the Internet Archive, the not-for-profit online library. DLARC is growing to be a massive online library of the past and present of ham radio and related communications. It is funded by a grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications, a private foundation that exists to support amateur radio and digital communication science and technology. - ARRL QST NFL, January 2024 issue, Marty Brown, N4GL, editor [After more than eight years as editor, Brown is retiring with the gratitude of Northern Florida ARES and other amateur interest communities across the section and state. Well done, thank you and good luck, Marty. - Ed.] Orlando HamCation? -- the ARRL Florida State Convention -- is next month, February 9 - 11, at the Central Florida Fairgrounds. There are a number of forums and meetings of interest to ARES and other emergency communicators: Disaster Response Communications and Auxcomm Florida; Training for Net Operations; SARNET; ARES Forum; New Directions in MARS; and What is SATERN. These forums are conducted by nationally-recognized leaders and practitioners. See you at HamCation! Letters: USGS Thanks Winlink Amateur Volunteers for Shakeout Service "We at the USGS really appreciate the work of the Winlink amateur volunteers who contributed to the recent ShakeOut earthquake scenario exercise as well as contributing to the USGS Did You Feel It? (DYFI) system since 2020. Winlink volunteers have sent in more than 6,000 responses for exercises and actual events. We anticipate that your contributions will help us provide critical situational awareness in the minutes and hours after a significant earthquake. You have a rather unique capacity to communicate after a damaging earthquake. Hence, the connection between amateur radio operators and the USGS' post-earthquake information tools is a natural yet impressive handoff. "I've been really impressed with the enthusiasm and professionalism of all the amateur radio operators we've worked with over the past few years who have been ready and willing to develop the interface to connect directly to USGS via the DYFI system and to the many operators who have sent in felt reports. Fantastic! "Lastly, I also want to thank Vince Quitoriano (USGS contractor) for making all the connections between Winlink and USGS work so smoothly." -- David Wald, PhD, Supervisory Research Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey National Hurricane Center's WX4NHC SKYWARN Recognition Day Operations Successful On December 2, 2023, Amateur Radio station WX4NHC operators at the National Hurricane Center were on-the-air on HF (40 and 20 meters) for the SKYWARN Recognition Day (SRD) event from 9 AM to 6 PM EST. WX4NHC was also on the VoIP Hurricane Net on EchoLink WX_TALK Conference (Node 7203)/IRLP 9219 from 4 PM until 6 PM EST. WX4NHC has participated in this annual event since its inception more than 20 years ago. This event is sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and is excellent practice for ham radio operators as well as NWS staff to become familiar with the unique radio communications available during times of severe weather. The event was open to all stations in the US and worldwide. WX4NHC total SRD contacts: 144 NWS Stations contacted: 19 Farthest stations contacted: Brazil (PY3BI) Coldest Temperatu
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Polk County mini-Set this Saturday
If anyone is interested in helping Polk County ARES. It shouldn't take too long for us outside of their area, They are looking for some 40m voice contacts and get some winlink traffic. Tyson W7BL From Bonnie Hi all, On January 20th 1000-1200L, my ARES group is going to have a mini-SET and some neighboring counties may participate as well. Following are what we would like to accomplish: Test the HF antenna on the comm van on 40 meters. Practice sending and receiving ICS-213 forms on voice and WinLink. Involve the newer members and interested hams in message handling. Test reliability of contacts on VHF simplex. To help us accomplish these things, if anyone would like to contact us on 40 meters, on or about 7248 kHz, please do so. We have set up the HF antenna on the comm van but have not used it. Normally we use the ham radio and SAR frequencies in the comm van on VHF only. A couple of the members of our group will be taking the comm van to the Polk County Fairgrounds (backup EOC location) and setting up the antenna there - one experienced with the comm van and one new to the comm van in training. If you would like to contact me at the EOC Radio room, I will be on or about 3964 kHz. We have HF antenna issues at the EOC but we can easily get messages to OEM via VHF/UHF so our EM isn't too concerned about that. We do have a vertical antenna on 80 meters but we are in a bit of a hole at the EOC. We aren't going to be using 80 meters as part of the plan for this SET but I will be monitoring it. Jason N7IME (in this group as the Polk County ARES AEC) will be at the EOC as well but may be playing around with mesh networking, at least part of the time, so if anyone uses that, you might connect with him on it. Also if anyone would like to send Winlink messages to W7PLK, please do that as well. We are simulating a severe windstorm with a power outage. I appreciate your help! Bonnie AB7ZQ
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Meeting tonight 5pm in person or Zoom
Good morning, We do have a meeting tonight, but you do not have to come to the office. I will have a zoom meeting set up for those that can't make it in. We will be going over a document that came out on Sunday, Oregon ARES Overview: A New Direction. This made by Bonnie Altus, AB7ZQ our Oregon ARES Section Emergency Coordinator. There is some important info that we will need to get in line with I have posted it in the files section of Ham Club Online so you can review it earlier if you wish. Zoom meeting info Zoom : 815 205 76188 passcode:468 Tyson W7BL
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Last Chance to input hours for 2023. Totals by month 2
Here are this 2023 hours for everyone minus Decembers. If you need any help, please contact me tomorrow. Tomorrow is the last day to input 2023 hours without me manually entering it. Tyson W7BL 2023 Total Exercise Hours Total Training Hours Total Public Event Hours Total Community Event Hours Total Emergency Event Hours Total SKYWARN Event Hours Total Meeting Hours Total Unclassified Event Hours Total Non ARES Net Hours January 7 1 1 72 1 0 4.5 1 31.05 Operator Exercise Hours Training Hours Public Event Hours Community Event Hours Emergency Event Hours SKYWARN Event Hours Meeting Hours Unclassified Event Hours Non ARES Net Hours W7BL 0 0 0 72 0 0 1 0 3 W7JSN 7 0 0 0 0 0 1.5 0 2 W7ODL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7JG 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20 KJ7MFV 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7DB 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 6.05 KG7ENC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 W7FSB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KK7MA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7CEM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2023 Total Exercise Hours Total Training Hours Total Public Event Hours Total Community Event Hours Total Emergency Event Hours Total SKYWARN Event Hours Total Meeting Hours Total Unclassified Event Hours Total Non ARES Net Hours February 2 9 3 0 0 0 6 3 59 Operator Exercise Hours Training Hours Public Event Hours Community Event Hours Emergency Event Hours SKYWARN Event Hours Meeting Hours Unclassified Event Hours Non ARES Net Hours W7BL 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 W7JSN 2 8 3 0 0 0 1.5 0 6 W7ODL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7JG 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 20 KJ7MFV 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7DB 0 1 0 0 0 0 1.5 0 30 KG7ENC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 W7FSB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KK7MA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7CEM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2023 Total Exercise Hours Total Training Hours Total Public Event Hours Total Community Event Hours Total Emergency Event Hours Total SKYWARN Event Hours Total Meeting Hours Total Unclassified Event Hours Total Non ARES Net Hours March 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 9 25 Operator Exercise Hours Training Hours Public Event Hours Community Event Hours Emergency Event Hours SKYWARN Event Hours Meeting Hours Unclassified Event Hours Non ARES Net Hours W7BL 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 W7JSN 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 W7ODL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7JG 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 20 KJ7MFV 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7DB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KG7ENC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 W7FSB 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 KK7MA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7CEM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2023 Total Exercise Hours Total Training Hours Total Public Event Hours Total Community Event Hours Total Emergency Event Hours Total SKYWARN Event Hours Total Meeting Hours Total Unclassified Event Hours Total Non ARES Net Hours April 29 25 0 0 0 0 6 62 81.71 Operator Exercise Hours Training Hours Public Event Hours Community Event Hours Emergency Event Hours SKYWARN Event Hours Meeting Hours Unclassified Event Hours Non ARES Net Hours W7BL 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 W7JSN 4 20 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 W7ODL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7JG 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 40 KJ7MFV 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7DB 25 3 0 0 0 0 1 10 28.71 KG7ENC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 W7FSB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50 10 KK7MA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7CEM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2023 Total Exercise Hours Total Training Hours Total Public Event Hours Total Community Event Hours Total Emergency Event Hours Total SKYWARN Event Hours Total Meeting Hours Total Unclassified Event Hours Total Non ARES Net Hours May 4 0 0 0 10 0 6.5 30 27 Operator Exercise Hours Training Hours Public Event Hours Community Event Hours Emergency Event Hours SKYWARN Event Hours Meeting Hours Unclassified Event Hours Non ARES Net Hours W7BL 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 W7JSN 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 W7ODL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7JG 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KJ7MFV 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7DB 0 0 0 0 10 0 2.5 30 24 KG7ENC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 W7FSB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KK7MA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7CEM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2023 Total Exercise Hours Total Training Hours Total Public Event Hours Total Community Event Hours Total Emergency Event Hours Total SKYWARN Event Hours Total Meeting Hours Total Unclassified Event Hours Total Non ARES Net Hours June 42 14 0 29 0 0 10.5 40 48 Operator Exercise Hours Training Hours Public Event Hours Community Event Hours Emergency Event Hours SKYWARN Event Hours Meeting Hours Unclassified Event Hours Non ARES Net Hours W7BL 0 14 0 29 0 0 4 0 2 W7J
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December training hours total so far
2023 Total Exercise Hours Total Training Hours Total Public Event Hours Total Community Event Hours Total Emergency Event Hours Total SKYWARN Event Hours Total Meeting Hours Total Unclassified Event Hours Total Non ARES Net Hours December 0 1 0 4 0 0 2 1.5 2 Operator Exercise Hours Training Hours Public Event Hours Community Event Hours Emergency Event Hours SKYWARN Event Hours Meeting Hours Unclassified Event Hours Non ARES Net Hours W7BL 0 1 0 4 0 0 2 1.5 2 W7JSN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 W7ODL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7JG 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KJ7MFV 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7DB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KG7ENC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 W7FSB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KK7MA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KD7CEM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 These are the training hours that have been submitted so far this month. Please input your hours for the month at the link below ARES Monthly Reporting Tyson W7BL
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Fw: The ARES Letter for December 20, 2023
Just in case I'm the only person that receives this. W7BL ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: ARRL Web site <memberlist@...> To: "tyson.brooks5@..." <tyson.brooks5@...> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 03:50:04 AM PST Subject: The ARES Letter for December 20, 2023 If you are having trouble reading this message, you can see the original at: http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/ares-el/?issue=2023-12-20 December 20, 2023Editor: Rick Palm, K1CE ARES Letter Archive ARES Home ARRL Home Page ARES? Briefs, Links Successful ShakeOut 2023 Exercise and Winlink DYFI Reports SCARES Members Receive Awards for Tunnel 5 Fire Response Letters: Wilderness Heart Attack Emergency Handled by Winlink Neighborhood Radio Watch: Ideas Radio Room Dedicated to Veteran Emergency Coordinator K1CE for a Final: "ASAP" - Short Feed Lines Feedback ARES? Resources ARES? Briefs, Links In The ARES Letter for November 15, 2023, the Winter Field Day dates are incorrectly listed as January 23-24, 2024. They are actually January 27-28, 2024. - Thanks, Jesse Brumm, AJ7F FEMA released its 2023 National Preparedness Report, highlighting the state of the nation's preparedness at all levels of government while examining the risks the nation faces and the capabilities available to address them. With the cost and frequency of disasters increasing markedly over previous decades, emergency managers must continue to adapt, forge new partnerships, and anticipate challenges to help individuals and communities. Climate change continues to increase the frequency and severity of weather, which compounds the challenges that emergency managers face in addressing an increasingly complex risk environment. The report highlights how to adapt and forge new partnerships to face those challenges and achieve a more prepared nation. This year's report provides a data-driven picture of national preparedness and emergency management trends with focused discussions on four core capabilities: Fire Management and Suppression. Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Public Health, Healthcare, and Emergency Medical Services. Long-Term Vulnerability Reduction. This year's report provides concrete recommendations that partners and stakeholders across the whole community can take to increase the nation's resilience. Successful ShakeOut 2023 Exercise and Winlink DYFI Reports The ShakeOut 2023 exercise was an extremely successful demonstration of worldwide amateur radio, CISA SHARES, and Air Force MARS operators providing "ground truth" reports to USGS during a simulated earthquake. Over 1,500 reports were submitted through the Winlink system using the "Did You Feel It" (DYFI) form developed by the Winlink team in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS.) Reports were received from the US, several European countries, Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. The reports were sent directly to USGS and distributed to several other agencies including South Carolina Emergency Management Agency, which generated maps and reports for FEMA. The DYFI reports were processed by the Winlink Express program, which has built-in capabilities for analyzing and mapping many types of reports. The reports were displayed on a map generated by Winlink Express with markers indicating the severity of the earthquake. Winlink Express also wrote real-time updates to a comma separated value (CSV) file which was used by ArcGIS? and other third-party GIS programs to generate additional maps, charts, and reports. The locations of reports shown on Winlink Express maps and passed to third-party GIS programs were very accurate. To achieve maximum accuracy, Winlink Express uses a hierarchy of methods for determining the position: The user explicitly specified latitude and longitude (not a default value) GPS position from form or message header (inserted automatically by Winlink Express) Google street address lookup to determine latitude and longitude If no user-specified or GPS location, and the street address is not valid (for example, street address but no city or state), then user's grid square. Using the gri
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