Announcements for "Operation Noah"
The Comm I trailer will also serve as the Incident Command for the exercise.
We will have the following agencies as participants in the exercise, NWS Blacksburg, the Virginia Defense Force at two locations (Comm Trailers), the Virginia Baptist Disaster Relief communications trailer, Carroll County RACES Trailer, the Woods River Chapter of the American Red Cross, Grayson County Emergency Management, operators and shelters from Franklin County and Pulaski County, Roanoke Red Cross, the Virginia EOC, Virginia Capital ARES District, Twin County E-911 and Skywarn operators from various locations. We are awaiting firm commitments from other agencies.
The National Weather Service in Blacksburg Va will provide a map with rainfall amounts and flooding conditions. There will be a Skywarn net operating throughout this event. Skywarn will have situation reports and will receive reports on weather, road closings, rivers and creek flooding and areas of risk.
Winlink Coordinator for the exercise: Bill Wells, W4BOT from Franklin County will be the Winlink Coordinator and will communicate important Winlink information via email, to all Winlink stations.
Instructions
You will receive an email with attachment that has messages for you to send during the exercise. You may choose to send these via voice or Winlink. If you are sending by Winlink, be sure the receiving station has an operational Winlink in the exercise. These messages will have a statement at the head and closing stating "THIS IS A DRILL, THIS IS A TEST". Read this statement as part of each of your messages.
A number of messages will also be sent to your location during the exercise that will require a reply back to the originator. You will also receive replies back from the messages that you send out. Agency personnel that you supporting may also want to originate messages from their agency and they are encouraged to do so.
Plan to take a digital camera with you to your assignment and save your photos in a JPEG format and email them to w4ghs(AT)arrl.net. Include the names and the order they appear in each photo. These will be posted in the photo section of this website.
Thanks,
Glen Sage, W4GHS
