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County
of Orange RACES, an auxiliary communications unit of the Orange County
Sheriff's Department (OCSD), is administered by OCSD's Communications
& Technology Division. Members are registered as Disaster Service
Workers with OCSD's Emergency Management Bureau. They are trained to
provide voice, video, and data communications during emergencies, using
their own equipment on County VHF and UHF repeaters and simplex
frequencies. When activated, OCRACES provides emergency communications
support, handles messages between incidents and the EOC, or between
public-safety agencies and critical locations, and reports conditions from
the field to the EOC or Command Post.
Next OCRACES Meeting: June 3rd
The
next County of Orange RACES meeting is on Monday, June 3, 2013, at 7:30
PM, at 840 N. Eckhoff Street, Suite 104, in Orange. Newport Beach RACES
Member Peter Putnam, NI6E, will demonstrate packet transmission and
reception of a text-based ICS-213 form, using RMS Express software in
peer-to-peer mode.
A
new Information Manual will be distributed to all members at this
meeting. Members are requested to turn in their old Information Manual
when they receive the new edition.
OCRACES Rides Tall at Radio Rodeo
OCRACES
exhibited its emergency communications response vehicle at the California
Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee Southern Planning Area
"Radio Rodeo" in the Knott's Berry Farm Hotel parking lot in
Buena Park on Tuesday, October 9, 2012. Other Orange County Sheriff's
Department mobile communications vehicles included Samantha II, Incident
Support Trailer, and OASIS trailer. Three counties participated in Radio
Rodeo, including Orange, Riverside, and San Diego. Each set up at a
central location with individual agencies testing the equipment inside the
various mobile communications vehicles. Other agencies at the Knott's
location included the Anaheim Police Department, Cal EMA (MCV-1),
Caltrans, Huntington Beach Police Department, Newport Beach Police
Department, Orange County Medical Services, Orange County Fire Authority,
Santa Ana Police Department, and West-Comm. Additionally, the AT&T
Remote Mobility Zone Unit was on site for demonstration. All vehicles,
including the OCRACES van, participated in interoperability testing on
many public-safety frequencies from 0900 to 1100. Participating from
OCRACES were Chief Radio Officer Ken Bourne, W6HK, Radio Officer Harvey
Packard, KM6BV, Assistant Radio Officers Jim Carter, WB6HAG, and Chuck
Dolan, KG6UJC, Marty Oh, KJ6RWE, Tom Tracey, KC6FIC, and Applicant Tom
Riley, K6TPR.
OCRACES Participates in SRRU Exercise

OCRACES
van was parked next to the Incident Command Post, for easy interfacing
with SRRU leaders.
County
of Orange RACES participated in the OCSD Search & Rescue Reserve Unit
(SRRU) mutual-aid exercise on Sunday, January 15, 2012. Members functioned
as the communications dispatchers for the event, operating from the
OCRACES emergency communications emergency response vehicle positioned
next to the Incident Command Post. The location was east of San Juan
Capistrano. The drill scenario was to search for a downed aircraft and
victims in the mountain wilderness.
Tom
Tracey, KC6FIC, who wrote the communications plan for the exercise and
reviewed it with SRRU Capt Steve Riches, N6SOG (who headed the exercise),
served as Dispatcher 1. RACES Sgt. Chuck Dolan, KG6UJC, served as
Dispatcher 2. Both operated on law-enforcement frequencies on UHF and
800-MHz trunked. RACES Capt. Ken Bourne, W6HK, was the communications unit
supervisor, interfacing, along with Tom, with the SRRU leaders. Also
assisting was John Bedford, KF6PRN. Tom's communications plan detailed
personnel assignments, planned times of major events, and radio channels
and their functions. He also prepared various forms such as a check-in
list, clue log, incident communications team status chart, and
communications log.
Other
participants in the drill included the OCSD Aero Squadron Reserve Unit (ASRU),
about 70 personnel from San Diego County Search & Rescue, the Civil
Air Patrol, and Boy and Girl Scouts (some of whom were dressed as
air-crash victims).
RACES Wants You!
Experience
the most exciting and rewarding part of amateur radio. Being a
RACES member gives you the opportunity to sharpen your
operating skills and technical knowledge while volunteering your services
in public-safety communications. Get involved in emergency communications now. Click the
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OCRACES link for more information.
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Events
Calendar
May
20: 1900
OCRACES ACS Net
2 m: Ralph Sbragia, W6CSP
Pager: Chuck Dolan, KG6UJC
May
20: 1915
City/County RACES & MOU Meeting, 840 N. Eckhoff Street, Suite 104,
Orange
May
27: 1900
OCRACES ACS Net
2 m: Joe Selikov, KB6EID
Pager: Ernest Fierheller, KG6LXT
June
3: 1900
OCRACES ACS Net
2 m: Tom Tracey, KC6FIC
Pager: Harvey Packard, KM6BV
June
3: 1930
OCRACES Meeting
840 N. Eckhoff Street, Suite 104, Orange
June
10: 1900
OCRACES ACS Net
2 m: Brian Turner, KI6WZS
Pager: Ralph Sbragia, W6CSP
June
17: 1900
OCRACES ACS Net
2 m: Jack Barth, AB6VC
Pager: Ken Bourne, W6HK
June
22-23
Field Day, Craig Park
June
24: 1900
OCRACES ACS Net
2 m: John Bedford, KF6PRN
Pager: Jack Barth, AB6VC
August
18-21
APCO 2013: APCO International's 79th Annual Conference & Expo
Anaheim Convention Center
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