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June Section News - From K1EIC
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Section Leadership:
Section Manager (SM) Betsey, K1EIC
Assistants (ASMs): Emeritus Al, W1FXQ; Jim, KD1YV; Larry, K1HEJ
Official Observer Coordinator (OOC) Chuck, K1DFS
Public Information Coordinator (PIC) Dana, KA1WPM
Section Emergency Coordinator (SEC) Wayne, N1CLV
Assistants (ASECs): Rod, N1FNE; Brian, K1BRF; Art, AF1HS; Ron, K1VSC;
Bill, W1GTT
State Government Liaison (SGL) Jon, WF1H
Section Traffic Manager (STM) Anne, K1STM
Section Youth Coordinator (SYC) Douglas, WA1SFH
Technical Coordinator (TC) Steve W1SMS


This year is certainly a year of many changes with the retirements of
President Craigie, CEO Dave Sumner and COO Harold Kramer. I, too, am
retiring as Section Manager after just one or two months short of 25
years in this position. My retirement is effective October 1. I have
very much enjoyed leading the ARRL Field Organization in CT; together
we have accomplished much. I will talk more about our history in this
news over the next few months.

On October 1, Chuck Motes K1DFS of Plainville will be our new Section
Manager. ARRL will make this announcement at the end of august when
the election cycle for SMs whose term ends on October 1 ends. Chuck
Motes, K1DFS, earned his first license as KN1DFS in Westerly, Rhode
Island in mid-1950. An Extra Class licensee, he has served as
Connecticut’s Official Observer Coordinator for the past 8 years.
Chuck is a member of Air Force MARS in Connecticut, and previously
served in Navy MARS dating back to the 1970’s. His experience in
emergency communications dates back to Civil Preparedness in Windsor
Locks in the early ‘60’s, and as Chief Operator of the Farmington
Red Cross station in 1993. Chuck has served as Planning Section Chief
and Deputy Commander of the Connecticut Disaster Medical Assistance
Team and deployed to Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He
also volunteers in the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary as a Flotilla vice
Commander (Westfield, MA) and a Qualified Communications Watch stander.
Currently he serves as Director of Health for Bristol and Burlington,
Connecticut and as President of the North Central Connecticut EMS
Council. He served as treasurer of the Insurance City Repeater Club for
about 26 years and is currently a member of the Charter Oak Radio
Society, an affiliated ARRL club. Chuck and his wife Rita N1KCJ live
in Plainville, CT. You can read an article with picture on our Section
page http://ct.arrl.org.

Please join me in congratulating Chuck and thanking him for stepping up
to this important leadership position. You can email k1dfs@arrl.net.

For my part, I plan to assist Chuck and offer my service in some
different leadership capacity. I’m sure I will pursue new projects
both on the Amateur radio and personal fronts.

Our focus during these next few weeks is preparation for Field Day.
You can be sure I’ll be looking forward to working as many CT ops as
I can. I really get excited when I hear club and individual calls I
know from the Section!

Thinking about making contacts, Region 5 ARES supported the Litchfield
Hills Road Race with 1500 runners over a 7 mile course using simplex,
not an easy feat in this Section. Paul KB1TOR coordinated this effort.


DEC Douglas WA1SFH reported a very successful communications effort
with the Tour de Cure race in Durham, even with a shorter volunteer
staff than usual.

Did you read the article in June QST about the history of the National
Traffic System (NTS)? Very recently during the FEMA-sponsored exercise
called Cascadia Rising involving operators mainly in the northwestern
part of the country, (partly covered in the June 9 issue of The ARRL
Letter), NTS was very active in addition to ARES. The simulated
disaster involved a 9.0 magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia
Subduction Zone (CSZ) and the resulting tsunami. There were about 40
operators handling traffic on digital, voice and CW. Operators in
Alaska participated with their “special ops” CW nets. One goal was
to get messages quickly from 7-land across the country in a timely
manner. Transcontinental Corps (TCC) operators who routinely move
message traffic between the Pacific area and the Eastern area delivered
the traffic within 15 minutes, mostly on c.w. because of the poor HF
conditions. There was particular interest in getting messages to
Washington D.C. Some traffic had to be uploaded to the FEMA National
Response Coordination Center (NRCC) website. Now these messages were
very different from the normal—they consisted of numbers and letters,
not words. And because of the very poor conditions, traffic from 7-land
to the transcontinental corps ops was handled mainly on c.w. Accuracy
was measured at 99.9%! Bravo to the NTS and ARES ops who participated.
Both services, ARES and NTS, spent hours coordinating and executing the
exercise. Congratulations to all.

This is yet another opportunity for those of you interested in public
service communications to participate. We have some wonderful traffic
nets here including c.w. in CT; you can find them all listed on
http://ct.arrl.org as well as on the ARES web page http://ctares.org.
For more information on this program write our Section Traffic Manager
Anne K1STM, k1stm@arrl.net.

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ARRL Connecticut Section
Section Manager: Betsey M Doane, K1EIC
k1eic@arrl.org
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