{"id":808,"date":"2017-11-03T05:54:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T09:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scheart.us\/?p=808"},"modified":"2024-02-02T04:52:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:52:48","slug":"scheart-ares-exercise-november-15-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/scheart-ares-exercise-november-15-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"SCHEART-ARES Exercise November 15, 2017 Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, November 15, 2017, South Carolina will be conducting its annual Full Scale Exercise (FSE) in conjunction with a national GridX drill.\u00a0 South Carolina will be the first state to participate in GridX which represents an attack on the national power grid from unknown actors.\u00a0 Wide scale and long duration power outages will disrupt normal communication systems.\u00a0 In this type of an event, Amateur Radio will play a significant role in providing communication continuity.<\/p>\n

From 0730 until 1730 the SCHEART network will be configured to support this exercise.\u00a0\u00a0 All Amateur Radio Operators are encouraged to monitor the SCHEART network along with their local ARES Tactical frequencies for opportunities to check in and provide reports.\u00a0 Operators may be asked about power status, battery or generator status or possible support status to operational locations.\u00a0 You may find additional information about emergency communications plans in the latest edition of the South Carolina ARES\/RACES Tactical Communication Guide on the ARES website http:\/\/ares-sc.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

EXERCISE DETAILS ————————————————————<\/p>\n

ARES \/ County EOC Participation<\/b>
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SCEMD would like each ARES Emergency Coordinator to contact their respective County Emergency Manager and request access the County Amateur Radio equipment on November 15th.\u00a0 SCEMD will coordinate with their field Regional Emergency Managers who, in turn,\u00a0 will contact County Emergency Managers to ensure they are aware of this official request.\u00a0\u00a0 The following information should be collected and relayed to Net Control during the GridX exercise:<\/span><\/div>\n
1. County reporting
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2. Amateur Radio Equipment status- (connected, missing, broke, etc.)
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3. Transceiver make and model number<\/span><\/div>\n
4. Type of antenna in use (base, mobile, magnetic mount, etc.)<\/span><\/div>\n
5. Does the county have functioning HF equipment
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6. Call sign of individual making the report<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThis information maybe relayed to the SEOC anytime between 0800 AM and 0500 PM on Wednesday, November 15th.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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If the county doesn’t have Amateur Radio equipment or the equipment is non functional, the EC or their designated person should contact the SEOC and provide status via their personal radio.\u00a0\u00a0 If a county elects not to allow access, pass that information to the SEOC during the day.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Approximately 24 counties will be participating in some fashion for this exercise.\u00a0 Some counties are doing special communications exercises in conjunction with this event.\u00a0 Only the following counties have elected to active their County EOC:<\/span><\/div>\n
Pickens<\/span><\/div>\n
Anderson<\/span><\/div>\n
Spartanburg<\/span><\/div>\n
Lancaster<\/span><\/div>\n
Orangeburg<\/span><\/div>\n
Barnwell<\/span><\/div>\n
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ARES and general amateur radio participation <\/b>
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All radio operators can participate in one of the scheduled statewide nets
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SCHEART Analog nets are scheduled for 0930 and 1430 on VHF\/ UHF repeaters and HF.<\/span><\/div>\n
SCHEART Digital nets are scheduled for 1130 and 1600 on DMR<\/span><\/div>\n
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Operators report by their county with the following information:<\/span><\/div>\n
1) County<\/span><\/div>\n
2) Power status<\/span><\/div>\n
3) How long can they operate on emergency power if the electric grid is lost.
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4) Call sign of reporting station
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The SCHEART system will be linked and in emergency operations mode during the day.\u00a0 Non ARES members are welcome to participate in the exercise.\u00a0 SCHEART would like to thank everyone in advance for their cooperation and support for this exercise.<\/span><\/div>\n
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On Wednesday, November 15, 2017, South Carolina will be conducting its annual Full Scale Exercise (FSE) in conjunction with a national GridX drill.\u00a0 South Carolina will be the first state to participate in GridX which represents an attack on the national power grid from unknown actors.\u00a0 Wide scale and long duration power outages will disrupt … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scheart.us\/staging\/9284\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}