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June Section News - From K1EIC - N1API - 06-18-2016 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ARRL Connecticut Section Section Manager: Betsey M Doane, K1EIC k1eic@arrl.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- |