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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.
Winlink Survey
Initial procurement
of Winlink equipment for County and City RACES units will begin in July.
It will provide e-mail capability to our served agencies, MOU members, and
RACES/ACS members, without relying totally on the Internet. The equipment
will also provide a ham-radio-based TCP/IP connection from the County EOC
to remote sites. Furthermore, this project will also establish a
packet-based bulletin board, probably using Outpost. Each City RACES unit
will need to make sure that an outbound network port is open where the
Winlink station is set up. Skilled people will be needed for installation,
assembly of hardware and cables, installation of software and initializing
system desktop computers, and to initialize the provided server. City
RACES leadership will need to designate lead persons as contact points
during implementation and operation of the system, and backup support
persons. A specific ham radio call sign, name, and address must be
provided by each City RACES unit. This is needed to register the TCP/IP
addresses that are specific to the TCP/IP over radio portion of this
project. Each City RACES Chief Radio Officer (or his designee) is asked to
click on the following link: WINLINK
PARTNER SURVEY.xls. Please complete the form, which will provide the
information mentioned above, and submit to OCRACES Radio Officer Scott
Byington, KC6MMF.
Next OCRACES Meeting: July 6th
The
next County of Orange RACES meeting is on Monday, July 6, 2009, at 7:30
PM, at 840 N. Eckhoff Street, Suite 104, in Orange. RACES Sgt. Jim Carter,
WB6HAG, will give a presentation on "How to Become a Mesonet Weather
Station for NWS San Diego." Jim will describe how his Davis weather
station communicates information directly to the National Weather Service.
OCRACES Supports Baker to Vegas 2009

Chuck
Dolan, KG6UJC (left), and RACES Lt. Ralph Sbragia, W6CSP, install DC
cables in follow van for Baker to Vegas
OCRACES
members, under the leadership of Radio Officer. Ralph Sbragia, W6CSP,
supported the 25th Annual Baker to Las Vegas Challenge Cup Relay, March
14-15, 2009. Helping Ralph with pre-race follow-van installations were
Chief Radio Officer Ken Bourne, W6HK, Chuck Dolan, KG6UJC, Randy Benicky,
N6PRL, and Steve Sobodos, KN6UX. Radio Officer Scott Byington, KC6MMF,
prepared radios, TNCs, antennas, etc., for the Pahrump Command Post, which
was manned by Assistant Radio Officer Jack Barth, AB6VC, Chuck Dolan,
KG6UJC, and Martin La Rocque, N6NTH. This year we supported eight teams
with APRS, including the four Orange County Sheriff's teams (up from three
in previous years), two Orange County DA teams, the California Department
of Insurance Fraud Investigation Unit, and the Arizona AG Team. Our
Pahrump Command Post was also there to provide communications support via
the linked UHF repeaters we monitor.
RACES
Activates for Fires
County
of Orange RACES activated on Saturday, November 15, 2008, in response to the Freeway Complex
Fire, and provided EOC communicators and assistance to the Orange County
Fire Authority at the Incident Command Post or with Red Flag patrols. City
RACES units activated in support of their own communities or responded to mutual-aid requests from OCRACES and nearby cities.
OCRACES was deactivated at 12 noon on Monday, November 17th..
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 Contact
OCRACES link for more information.
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Events
Calendar
Jul.
6: 7:00 PM
OCRACES ACS Net
2 m: Nancee Graff, N6ZRB
Pager: Jim Carter, WB6HAG
Jul.
13: 7:00 PM
OCRACES ACS Net
2 m: Ray Grimes, N8RG
Pager: Chuck Dolan, KG6UJC
Jul.
18: 9:00 AM
Southwest ACS Meeting, Cal EMA REOC, Los Alamitos
Jul.
20: 7:00 PM
2 m: Walter Kroy, KC6HAM
Pager: Ernest Fierheller, KG6LXT
Jul.
27: 7:00 PM
2 m: Martin La Rocque, N6NTH
Pager: Harvey Packard, KM6BV
Aug.
7: 5 PM-11 PM
Orange County Fair, OCRACES at Ham Radio Booth (with SART)
Aug.
10: 7:00 PM
Huntington Beach RACES Meeting, OC EOC
Aug.
19
SONGS Dress Rehearsal Plume Exercise
Sep.
23
SONGS FEMA Graded Exercise
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