Section Report for May 2011

Jun 7

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Please pass this along to your EC’s and members of the ARES organization
My sincere thanks to all that helped during the many Emergency Operations during the month.
We had 50 Emergency Operations for a total of 2920 Ham Hours.
(for reference last month the total hours for everything was 2056)
It is humbling to see so much support from our ARES section.  Again my Thanks to each and everyone.
Some food for thought –  While getting volunteers to help in Joplin to support the CERT teams as well as the SATERN group a frequent problem arose.    I would get an email listing all the “stuff” a person had — Securly mounted in their vehicle but nothing that was field deployable.  Unfortunately, that person could not be used.
We needed people that had a mobile that could be taken into a SATERN supply truck and plugged in to the cigarette lighter and stick a mag mount on the vehicle.  Or a handheld w/extra batteries to walk the debris field with a CERT team.   You don’t always get to use your personal vehicle.
With some newer vehicles finding a place for a mag mount can be a problem.  I purchased a 2 cup suction device and mounted an “L” bracket with a NMO mount that will stick on a window, fiberglas body, etc. and with a 1/2 wave antenna (no ground plane reqd) your in business.
The total Section report for May is listed below
MISSOURI ARES SECTION REPORT FOR MAY 2011 SEC
DISTRICT A B C D E F G H I TOTAL
# Counties 13 16 12 18 13 13 9 15 6 115
# Reporting 6 6 6 11 7 2 2 2 2 44
# Members 253 176 245 163 74 61 13 28 60 1073
Plus / Minus 58 0 45 6 1 0 4 11 14 139
# Train-Drills 26 31 34 56 21 11 9 3 5 196
Hours 868 156 314 572.5 62 17.6 42.5 16.5 33 2082.1
# Public Svc 34 1 2 6 6 2 3 2 0 56
Hours 855 25 178 249.5 26 188 17.5 116.5 0 1655.5
# Emer Ops 9 0 4 30 3 0 0 2 2 50
Hours 356 0 83 2379.5 28 0 0 49 24 2919.5
# Total Ops 69 32 40 92 30 13 12 7 7 302
Total Hours 2079 181 575 3201.5 116 205.6 60 182 57 6657.1
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If you have any questions or comments please feel free to send me an email   w0krb@yahoo.com
73
Ken

 

Joplin Tornado SITRIP 5-27-11

May 27

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Please see the attached Situation Report for 5-27-11
73,
Ken

 

doc iconSit Report 5-27-11.doc

Joplin Tornado SITRIP 5-26-11

May 27

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Please see attached situation report.

ARES Section — Additional info regarding help needed under separate email

73

Ken

 

doc icon5-26-11 SITRIP.doc

Joplin tornado Response

May 27

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Thanks to all that volunteered to help provide radio support for the Joplin tornado.
Last night Amateur Radio was used to provide comms between Freeman hospital (in Joplin) to the hospitals in Springfield to help provide information about resources needed in Joplin.
We also had a link-up for Red Cross between the main office in Springfield and the satellite office in Joplin.
John K0VET activated the MESN net and it was up until 23:00 hours last night and ended up steering a lot of people to the proper website that were interested in health and welfare messages.
The hospital requirements for radio comms was terminated at 9:00 am this morning and at 5:00 pm tonight we are on a standby status for Red Cross between the two locations.
We still have a couple of the Jasper County ARES and Newton County ARES members providing comms between the Red Cross Shelter and the HQ for Red Cross that was set up away from the normal chapter office as this is now on a national level for Red Cross response.  It is anticipated that this need will be fulfilled by noon tomorrow.
Again, Thanks to all of you for asking if you could help and especially for not self-deploying which ends up adding to the problem.  Our professionalism again came shinning through.
73
Ken