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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of kd4e
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: USA: No Advanced Digital HF Data Comms
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It is true when I served as ARRL SEC for the West Central FL
Section there were challenges in recruiting, though some of
that was the result of endless political feuding here, some
the reputation of the Red Cross and EOC's for ignoring Ham
volunteers.
Its bad enough that the NGOs fight amoungst themselves but hams,
ARES and RACES also do.
My personal experience volunteering to serve various agencies
was not encouraging. The Red Cross was poorly led and poorly
trained in the use of Ham ops. One school located the Ham
site three buildings away from the Red Cross site with no
means of intercommunication!
It is not uncommon for NGOs to not know how to utilize communications
operators. Here is where AREA of a local ham club if doing the
recuiting
needs to have a standard MOU between the club/clubmembers )ARES and
ARES
members) and the NGO that they service. I should be perfectly clear
that
the radio operators are members of your organization remain members of
your organization and are providing communications services to the NGC.
You need to let the NGO know what kind of support you can provice,
local,
state wide, or nation wide, communications where the communicator(s)
must/
should be located with respect to the NGOs operations/management staff.
Reports from many Hams is that they show up and do nothing,
other than occasional busy work, it frustrates good workers
and they do not return.
If that is the case, and an MOU has been signed, then the operator
needs to
let their orgaization know and the incident manager for your
organization
needs to get with the NGOs personnel and discuss the matter....if you
don't
need our guy for communications, someone else does.
I believe that the tasks and training of both Hams and the
served agancies must be closely aligned and that volunteers
be fully used, properly reported, and treated with respect.
Yes and an MOU will help both entities understand their training
needs.
Before we hope to recruit more volunteers the equipment,
modes, and roles need to be more clearly defined and the
served agencies properly trained to leverage valuable
volunteer resources.
And this may have to be defined in an MOU.
The DMAT organization is an example of how it is done right.
Pretty muchly right.
73, Walt/K5YFW
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Thanks! & 73,
doc, KD4E
... somewhere in FL
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