Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Drill Kawailani ‘Ino Hawaii (Heavenly Water Storm)

ARES® Hawaii News Release

Hawaii Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) will conduct a training EXERCISE on April 16th, 2022 between 9 AM and Noon that will exercise and train using the Incident Command System Structure. This EXERCISE will simulate a 4-day period of catastrophic rain and wind covering the Hawaiian Islands from Kauai to the Big Island with loss of power, internet and cell towers in order to train ARES® members and non-members in radio operations and procedures.


ARES® is made up of Amateur Radio operators, who register their equipment and qualifications with the ARESwww.arrl.org/sections) This web page serves the Hawaii Section, covering the entire state of Hawaii, managed by the ARRL Pacific Section Manager (SM).


Hawaii ARES® is segmented into four counties. Each County is organized into districts, each having an assigned District Emergency Coordinator (DEC). Each district may be further divided into communities, having a Community Emergency Coordinator (CEC).


Amateur Radio is not a replacement for normal communications channels (such as phone and internet) used by Public Safety or governmental agencies; it acts to serve agencies in a subordinate capacity when those channels have been destroyed or compromised. It thus enables Public Safety agencies to focus on their primary role, maintaining critical services. It also serves private agencies such as American Red Cross and Salvation Army whose disaster relief efforts would be hampered by not being able to communicate effectively.


In recent history, Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly Dominica, Saint Croix, and Puerto Rico. Amateur Radio proved to be a vital resource for Fire, Police and local Government and private agencies in providing communications across the islands when phone lines, power lines, and cell towers were almost completely blown away.


There are over 778,000 amateur radio operators in the United States, Guam, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and over 3,800 in Hawaii.

#HIARES

 

It is great to see this posting on QRZ.Com. If you are an FCC part 97 licensed operator in Hawaii, please sign up for this COMEX at https://hawaiiares.net. More details will be posted there, including the participant materials. You may also add your name to the Hawaii ARES groups.io reflector. Visit https://groups.io, click 'Find a Group, and enter hawaiiares into the search box. Join the group main@hawaiiares.groups.io if you would like to receive updates.
73

 

An essential and valuable Exercise in this beautiful but isolated Island chain.

'Heavenly Water Storm' is what happens when I fall off my Surfboard !

G3SEA/KH6

 

Educational as long as operators are training without ANY USE of the internet and repeaters !! HF is and will always be the backbone !
Rick wh6lu

 

What Rick (WH6LU) said.

 

BIG Mahalo to all the planners! This is going to be a good event to train many people!

 

Ditto what Rick said.

 

mi nombre es Benjamín hernández y soy radioaficionado mexicano con el indicativo XE2JHN. Esta idea de capacitar a la radioafición para los casos de desastres naturales y otros aún que no sean extremos me parece formidable. asi que van mis felicitaciones de antemano tanto para los coordinadores como para los participantes en el evento, esperando que los resultados sean publicados en este mismo medio para ponerlos en ejercicio en otras areas del mundo, donde se han presentado fenómenos naturales extremosos; y así los radioaficionados los puedan poner en práctica para amortiguar los daños de perdidas tanto humanos como de daños materiales.

 

Thats great to know. Also, if anyone in the club loves to do portable set up, please look in to doing Pota parks in the air all one word. Alot f us on Pota need Hawaii and it will be an honor.
73s
de n3lou

 

I want to participat

73 JF1IRQ

 

COMEX details are all being fleshed out between the COMEX planning team, Hawaii County Civil Defense, and other Hawaii Emergency Management Agencies on each island. Details will be published soon at hawaiiares.net. All Part 97 FCC-licensed amateur radio operators in Hawaii are invited to sign up. The signup link is: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzVLdAOjuD8r6paeyKaIj8hwag4AtSX2Vg-QjnUQSlaukW7Q/viewform

The last question on the COMEX signup form is 'Will you be able to participate?' (Yes, No, or Maybe) If you change your mind later you can use the 'Edit response' button in the confirmation email message you are sent after submitting the form.

Everyone is working together to define communication pathways via ICS-205 Incident Radio Communication Plan.
Does everyone remember PACE? (P)rimary, (A)uxilliary, (C)ontengency, and (E)mergency? Repeaters are included in plans, yet of course, simplex paths are as well via multiple bands (HF/UHF/VHF), and voice (FM, SSB), as well as digital modes, are included.

We want to include the less experienced operators who may not yet have HF and digital capabilities at their station, as well as the experienced operators who do.

 

We are also able to get a slot on the local news, local meaning the entire State sees the news.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/...ators-could-offer-key-communication-lifeline/

 

Complimenti per l'iniziativa per l'esercitazione dalla quale si evidenzia l'importanza del Radioamatore ,,,,buon lavoro de IOBYR