Overview
As announced by Radio Amateurs of
Canada, this years SET will be held October 6-7 2007. The Province-wide
portion of the SET will be conducted on Oct. 6th from 10:00 to 14:00 and
18:00 to 21:00 hrs ET. All ARES Groups are encouraged to participate
in Province-wide SET activities and pass traffic to the Provincial Emergency
Operations Centre as well as other ARES Groups, RAC Officials and Government/Support
Agencies through-out the Province.
SET 2007 will be an official test
of the Ontario ARES under the direction of Emergency Management Ontario,
all ARES Groups are requested to participate. If your ARES group is planning
to conduct SET on a different date please have a representative available
for the province-wide portion as this is an official test of the Ontario
ARES by Emergency Management Ontario. Our focus this year will be on formal
message handling, some helpful tools are included further down in the SET
instructions.
Clubs or groups with installations
on CBC tower sites participating in this years SET will receive letters
of conformation from Emergency Management Ontario. In order to receive
conformation of participation a radiogram must be sent from your club to
the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre (VE3EMO) during the SET exercise
followed by a request for conformation via e-mail to EMOARES@ontario.ca
, please included your full mailing address as conformation will be sent
via regular mail. CHECK YOUR CBC CONTRACT FOR DETAILS.
Example Message
To: VE3EMO
Provincial Emergency Operations
Centre
The Manitoulin Amateur Radio Club
is participating in the simulated emergency test 2007 x We have five operators
participating monitoring 3.742 and IRLP 9206 x
Signed: Allan
Boyd VE3AJB Club President
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Guidelines
ALL operations and traffic should
follow the guidelines as outlined by Radio Amateurs of Canada www.rac.ca/fieldorg/ARES_set.htm
This year it is very important to maintain accurate logs as scoring has
been introduced into this years exercise, please visit the RAC site for
details, SET Report Form: http://www.rac.ca/fieldorg/setform.htm
When signing into the SET please
inform Net Control of which ARES Group you represent, your title if any
(example: SM, SEC, DEC, EC, AEC), if you are operating with emergency power,
also inform NCS if you are operating from an Emergency Operations Centre.
All stations should stay on frequency
for traffic routing unless excused by the net control station, please advise
NCS if you must leave.
Modes utilized for this exercise
include; HF, VHF/UHF linked repeaters, simplex, IRLP, PSK31 and Packet
via the Airmail program.
SET Province-wide Schedule
(October 6th)
Day Time Session (10:00
to 14:00 hrs ET)
3.742 Mhz (Ontario Phone Net VA3OPN)
14.140 MHz. for stations out of 80/40
metre range (Northern Ontario)
IRLP Reflector 9206 (linked to ARES
Procom Net)
VE3WIK 443.675 (131.8Hz) Carlisle
VA3WAJ 442.425 (107.2 Hz), 224.180 (107.2
Hz) Niagara
VE3SNM 442.850 (136.5 Hz) Balentrae
VE3SED 442.200 (131.8 Hz), 53.370
(131.8Hz) Baden
VE3YYZ 443.050 (103.5 Hz) Toronto
VE3PLF 444.725 (107.2) Fonthill
VE3MXR 444.975 (103.5) Cobourg
Simplex 146.460
PSK31 (freq: 7.070 MHz. USB) NCS will
send and repeat < CQ ONT ARES de VA3EOT >
Packet via Airmail program (EMOARES@ontario.ca)
Evening Session (18:00
to 21:00 hrs ET)
3.742 Mhz (Ontario Phone Net VA3OPN)
IRLP Reflector 9206 (linked to ARES
Procom Net)
VE3WIK 443.675 (131.8Hz) Carlisle
VA3WAJ 442.425 (107.2 Hz), 224.180 (107.2
Hz) Niagara
VE3SNM 442.850 (136.5 Hz) Balentrae
VE3SED 442.200 (131.8 Hz), 53.370
(131.8Hz) Baden
VE3YYZ 443.050 (103.5 Hz) Toronto
VE3PLF 444.725 (107.2) Fonthill
VE3MXR 444.975 (103.5) Cobourg
Simplex 146.460
PSK31 (freq: 3.580 MHz. USB)
Packet via Airmail program (EMOARES@ontario.ca)
Special EOC Session
A special session of the SET is
also scheduled for Wednesday October 3rd 2007 (09:00 to 12:00) to accommodate
Emergency Operations Centres stations which only have site access during
normal business hours. The early hours have been chosen to make full use
of 80 metre band conditions (3.742 MHz.), IRLP (channel 9206),
and the ERA network (see freq. list on EMO ARES website). Special
arrangements can be made for EOC's within the simplex coverage range of
the PEOC, please contact jim.taylor@emoares.org
Useful SET Tools
For your convenience generic radiograms
and logsheets used by the EMO and Toronto EOC stations are available for
download on the EMO ARES website. The radiogram is full-page print-out
providing space for extra details and information. The logsheets have only
12 entries per page providing ample room for additional information.
Radiogram: http://emoares.org/radiogram1.pdf
Logsheet: http://emoares.org/logsheet.pdf
Easy Guide to understanding Radiograms:
http://emoares.org/easygram.shtml
ARL Numbered Text: http://emoares.org/arlnumbered.shtml
