| September 18, 2011 |
The next Shadow drill is coming up this September 18th. We will be supporting PD as well as FD this year. Please plan to attend. We’ll need all the people we can get.
| July 21, 2011 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 1:00 pm |
A Motorola radio will be installed in the Senior Center July 21 @ 9am. Please let us know if you’d like to help.
| April 16, 2011 8:00 am | to | April 17, 2011 9:00 am |
The Huntington Beach RACES Baker to Vegas Communication Team will provide mobile communications support to the Huntington Beach Police Department Running Team’s participation in the 27th Annual Baker to Vegas Relay Race.
HB RACES looks forward each year to providing the best communications resource for the Huntington Beach Running Team. We use this event as an opportunity to practice implementing a reliable communications net in a difficult environment and fostering our working relationships with the Huntington Beach Police Department. This year 12 RACES communicators will provide radio communication support to the running team. This year HB RACES is coordinating with the Nevada Amateur Radio Club (NARC) and testing cutting edge Internet linking of several repeater systems including our local Santiago Peak 2-meter machine. HB RACES communicators should keep an ear on our local machine if they’re not headed out of town this weekend.
HB RACES provides live tracking of the runner’s position via APRS ham radio equipment during the race. The position reports are available via any Internet connected PC at Huntington Beach Runner Position Report Huntington Beach has a 3:30pm (PDT) start time on Saturday, April 16th.
HB RACES communicators follow the Huntington Beach runner and are available at the upcoming stages to provide updated position reports and assistance to runners waiting for their leg to start. The stage communicator will have the unofficial leg times for the running team and any special instructions relayed from the team captain.
HB RACES Communicators are available at the Hunting Beach Running Team’s Staging Suite at the Hilton – Las Vegas. Runner status information and unofficial leg times are available. Call the room and ask for the RACES communicator. We can assist you in getting messages to the racecourse runners. Cell phone coverage is spotty along the course, but our ham radio resources provide 100% coverage of the racecourse allowing voice communication to all participants and the follow van.
| April 11, 2011 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Reminder that The Baker to Vegas team has a mandatory meeting Monday at 6pm in the EOC. We are still in need of some 2nd shift communicators. If you are even thinking about it please join us in the EOC Monday.
Questions please give me a call at my number in the roster.
Margaret
| April 16, 2011 | to | April 17, 2011 |
Huntington Beach RACES Baker to Vegas Communication Team will provide mobile communications support to the Huntington Beach Police Department Running Team’s participation in the 27th Annual Baker to Vegas Relay Race scheduled for April 16 – 17, 2011.
HB RACES looks forward each year to providing the best communications resource for the Huntington Beach Running Team. We use this event as an opportunity to practice implementing a reliable communications net in a difficult environment and fostering our working relationships with the Huntington Beach Police Department.
HB RACES provides live tracking of the runner’s position via APRS ham radio equipment during the race. The position reports are available via any Internet connected PC at Huntington Beach Runner Position Report. Huntington Beach begins their relay run in Baker, California on Saturday, April 16th and finishes on Sunday, April 17th in Las Vegas, Nevada
HB RACES communicators follow the Huntington Beach runner and are available at the upcoming stages to provide updated position reports and assistance to runners waiting for their leg to start. The stage communicator will have the unofficial leg times for the running team and any special instructions relayed from the team captain.
HB RACES Communicators are available at the Hunting Beach Running Team’s Staging Suite at the Hilton – Las Vegas. Runner status information and unofficial leg times are available. Call the room and ask for the RACES communicator. We can assist you in getting messages to the racecourse runners. Cell phone coverage is spotty along the course, but our ham radio resources provide 100% coverage of the racecourse allowing voice communication to all participants and the follow van.
Plans are being developed to provide radio communication support to the running team. Contact Margret Cerecedes, KE6OAR if you would like to participate in this communication event and be sure to attend the upcoming General Membership Meeting on March 7th, 2011 to learn more.
Web links to learn more:
http://www.bakervegas.com/
http://www.b2v.org/
http://tracking.b2v.org/
http://b2v.findu.com/
| September 19, 2010 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
Huntington Beach RACES, (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services), a volunteer emergency communications amateur radio group that is part of the Huntington Beach Fire Department Office of Emergency Services and Homeland Security, will conduct a yearly communications exercise to demonstrate it’s preparedness to provide the fire department with an independent backup radio system to dispatch resources and maintain solid communications should there be a complete failure of the 800mhz radio system.
Affectionately called the “Shadow Drill,” RACES communicators will setup amateur radio equipment and be stationed at the Huntington Beach Police Department 911 communications center, the Fire Department Operations Center, and at each of the 8 fire stations throughout Huntington Beach. Radio operators will also install temporary amateur radio communications gear on each fire apparatus in the city.
Fire 911 calls will be intercepted at the PD comms center by RACES communicators and relayed via HAM radio to the Fire Operations Center, where the supervising Fire Department officer will assign units to respond to the call. Those units will then be dispatched using HAM radio calls to the RACES communicators at the stations and riding on the fire apparatus. Status and availability, as well as citywide tactical communications, will be maintained via RACES amateur radio emcomm.
Since this is a “Shadow” exercise, MetroNet will continue to dispatch in it’s normal manner. In years past, RACES amateur radio emcomm dispatch has been better or equal to the MetroNet dispatch times, and in fact based on previous RACES Shadow Drill experience, modifications have been made to the actual 800mhz MetroNet dispatch protocol to improve Fire department response times.
RACES communicators are all volunteers who provide their own amateur radio equipment in support of emergency communications for the City of Huntington Beach, and as such, amateur communications (“HAM radio”) will always function even during a complete disruption of telephone and electrical services.
With the emergency communications support from Huntington Beach RACES, the citizens of Huntington Beach can be assured that the Fire Department will be dispatched to their calls even in the event of a catastrophic citywide commercial communications failure.
Technical details of ham radio antennas on fire apparatus: antenna_concerns_-_k5pz_fire_vehicles
For further information contact:
Steven R. Graboff MD
W6GOS
Huntington Beach Fire Department
Chief Radio Officer
ocbonedoc at gmail dot com
| September 13, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
EOC Officer’s meeting. New RACES Fire hat and decal will be available for pickup if you have not already done so. (Remember, the old “orange” city of HB hat is no longer the official uniform hat for HBRACES and you need to have the new hat)
| September 11, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 1:00 pm |
Shadow Drill MANDATORY prep meeting at Gothard station – FDOC parking lot. Talk-in on channel 1. We will discuss all the details for this year’s shadow drill, including assignments and radio protocol. Bring all the gear that you plan to use for the shadow drill. From 0900-1000hrs we will practice on the engine from station 1, and then from 1000-1300hrs you will go to your assigned station/apparatus and install your radio gear to ensure rock-solid communications. Help will be available to you to setup and install your gear.
| April 26, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
HB RACES and CERT communicators are invited to our monthly skills workshop program on April 26that 6pm in the EOC. This month Peter Barbour, N6RAS and Steve Albert, KE6OCE will be presenting a workshop on Communications and Messaging. We will be discussing and having a hands-on skill building exercise to help you create, send and receive messages appropriate for emergency communications work. This is another in the great series of workshop’s HB RACES training officer Jim Hanson, KG6ZDP is providing for both HB RACES and CERT communicators in 2010 to enhance our skills. Come join the group on Monday night, we’ll start at 6pm sharp.
| April 17, 2010 5:00 pm | to | April 18, 2010 9:00 am |
Huntington Beach RACES Baker to Vegas Communication Team will provide mobile communications support to the Huntington Beach Police Department Running Team’s participation in the 26th Annual Baker to Vegas Relay Race.
HB RACES looks forward each year to providing the best communications resource for the Huntington Beach Running Team. We use this event as an opportunity to practice implementing a reliable communications net in a difficult environment and fostering our working relationships with the Huntington Beach Police Department. This year 12 RACES communicators will provide radio communication support to the running team.
HB RACES provides live tracking of the runner’s position via APRS ham radio equipment during the race. The position reports are available via any Internet connected PC at Huntington Beach Runner Position Report Huntington Beach has a 5pm (PDT) start time on Saturday, March 17th.
HB RACES communicators follow the Huntington Beach runner and are available at the upcoming stages to provide updated position reports and assistance to runners waiting for their leg to start. The stage communicator will have the unofficial leg times for the running team and any special instructions relayed from the team captain.
HB RACES Communicators are available at the Hunting Beach Running Team’s Staging Suite at the Hilton – Las Vegas. Runner status information and unofficial leg times are available. Call the room and ask for the RACES communicator. We can assist you in getting messages to the racecourse runners. Cell phone coverage is spotty along the course, but our ham radio resources provide 100% coverage of the racecourse allowing voice communication to all participants and the follow van.
