Frank’s WQ1O Cape and Islands ARES 2M simplex “Summer Strike” exercise will begin at 1030 am on Sat. August 2nd.
The operating procedure for this exercise will consist of a roll call format. The Net Control station will do a staggered priority and geographical call up.
1st call will be for any EOC stations in our district (including the Islands) and for any mobile stations.
The second call up will be for home stations by order of zones in sequence (Outer Cape, Lower Cape, Mid Cape, Upper Cape, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard).
Last call up will be for stations outside the Cape/Islands district. After the initial call up, NCS will designate one station in each zone (if available) that will call out for any stations that the NCS could not hear. NCS will then poll all individual check in stations which will read aloud those stations they could hear on the net. We will evaluate successful communications paths based on that data.
All stations will keep a log of whom they can hear and send it to the ARES DEC (Frank wq...@comcast.net) after the exercise. Mobile units (if any) may call NCS outside of the roll call when any mobile operators feel the necessity of doing so.
When participants are recording/reporting the received signals of incoming stations, we will use terminology similar to that used in the Upper Cape Falmouth ARES simplex net.
Signals will be reported by:
1. No signal/unreadable 2. Weak readable
3. Good readable 4. Strong readable
Charlie/K1CB, Secretary, Falmouth Amateur Radio Association