ALL: DOD COMEX 22-2 is now underway. Monitor WWV at 10" past the hour, and please see the forwarded message below from C. Matthew Curtin KD8TTE.
If you are at all interested in emergency communications or operating HF on 60 meters, this is an important practice event. Matthew has a great YouTube video that explains how this works! See the link in his email, below. Hope to hear you on 60m this week! 73. Gus Bernard, K5GMB ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Roy Walker WA5YZD SRO 1A <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 6:10 AM Subject: [TexasRACES] DOD COMEX 22-2 To: <[email protected]> All: Are you planning DOD COMEX 22-2 participation in your area? I've asked the "emergency communications" operators and have found shockingly little engagement. Any HF-capable amateur operator should be able to participate on at least some level, but there seem to be lots of assumptions about. "I'm not in MARS." [This part isn't for MARS, it's for you.] "I don't have 60m." [Are you sure? Even if you really can't, there are options.] "It's over my head." [It's just voice. Have you actually looked at what it takes?] I made a video to try to encourage amateur participation, and have an accompanying station plan that helps to make sure you get the critical tasks done day by day, and even to coordinate with others so you can work as a team in case one operator can't cover all of the different things to do. Interoperability is a critical capability and I'm growing concerned that lack of engagement by the amateur "emergency communications" crowd will feed the argument that the amateur radio community simply isn't up to the demands of operating post-disaster or emergency in a meaningful and coordinated way. I hope the video and accompanying plan template encourage participation. Please share it if you think it will. I have no inside information here (I'm not a MARS operator) but I'm happy to answer any question I can. I did attend the briefing (linked from my video's description) and have a fair bit of experience in cross-service exercises on 60m. ARES / RACES / AUXCOMM in DOD COMEX 22-2: https://youtu.be/7cGabqIXnaM C. Matthew Curtin KD8TTE https://twitter.com/kd8tte https://www.youtube.com/KD8TTE _._,_._,_
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