WICEN Vic: Friday 10th Sept - Digital Playground Training Exercise

[Tony Langdon]

Unfortunately, evenings are a non starter for me, and due to an
impending house move, all HF is off air for up to several months (I'm
outside VHF range).

On 7/9/21 6:05 pm, Mark Hudson wrote:
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> Good afternoon everyone,
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> If your around Friday evening between 1930hrs ~ 2130hrs please join us
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> We’ll have an open Zoom session running as well as a digital emergency
> training exercise.
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> *Zoom Details*
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> Topic: WICEN Digital Playground N#2
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> Time: Sep 10, 2021 19:30 Australia/Melbourne
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> Join Zoom Meeting
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> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88448188662?pwd=Snoyc2FLRlU3NE8xV3dDN0JkNXZXQT09
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> Meeting ID: 884 4818 8662
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> Passcode: 428339
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> *Friday Nights Training Exercise – NOTE – This is not how I usually
> write a emergency training exercise or SOP’s but due to timing and the
> informality of Friday night here it is.*
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> The Aim & Objective - The aim of this week’s exercise is to see how
> many WICEN stations we can get on air with VARA Winlink. The objective
> will be the successful passing of several messages by each field
> station. This exercise also tests having two Melbourne Metropolitan
> control stations using single frequencies (both on HF & VHF). 
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> *The scenario*
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> At 1930hrs all internet & phone communications fail across the state
> of Victoria due to a unknown “issue” in the states telecommunications
> systems. This means all agencies are without their usual voice and
> data systems. A State Emergency Management Plan has been enacted
> written for this scenario. You have set up your station at your
> assigned local Police Station. At the Police station senior Police,
> Fire, Ambulance and possibly SES leaders have assembled.
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> Your WICEN standard operating procedure says as follows (for this
> exercise).
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>  1. If connecting with VARA FM connect to either VK3EQ or VK3MDH and
>     send a message (email) using VARA FM P2P that you are at your
>     assigned location (please specify your location) and confirm your
>     fully operational. You will get a message back from the Net
>     Control Station acknowledging your message. The NCS will need to
>     reconnect to your station.
>  2. If your using VARA HF Chat, connect to either VK3EQ or VK3MDH.
>     Leave a message that you are at your assigned location (please
>     specify location) and that your fully operational. You will get an
>     acknowledgement back via chat and then the NCS (Net Control
>     Station) will disconnect.
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> At approx. 1945hrs ~ 2000hrs. the NCS you logged into will send you
> Message 1. Via the same radio frequency (method) you checked in on.
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> It’s now 2000hrs and at this stage as power has not been affected.
>  Local VHF comms using fire appliances (simplex VHF) have been used to
> coordinate local responses to any immediate urgent needs for
> assistance. There is a concern that a long outage could cause the
> public to panic.
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> At approx. 2030hrs you will receive message 2. Again you will need to
> respond to this message.
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> Note: Your WICEN Vic standard operating procedure for this event
> states, Rik VK3EQ and Mark VK3MDH will have their Winlink stations on
> the air on 145.200 in Vara FM P2P mode. For HF they are using 3581khz
> dial freq using *VARA HF Chat.*
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> Let’s test the plan and any questions please let me know.
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> Also few interesting radio video from this week’s lockdown binge.
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> P25 Presentation – Emergency Agencies Tasmania
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE98s0ezgdM
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> Winlink Portable Operation
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE98s0ezgdM
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> Cheers,
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> Mark
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> *Mark Hudson*
> State Ordinary Member & Membership Officer
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> WICEN Victoria
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> *Mobile *+61 409 500 414  <tel:+61%20409%20500%20414>
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> *Email *vk3mdh at gmail.com  <mailto:vk3mdh at gmail.com >
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> *Website *www.vic.wicen.org.au  <http://www.vic.wicen.org.au/>
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73 de Tony VK3JED/VK3IRL
http://vkradio.com

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