Spring 2010 Exercise
The Section will have an exercise on April 10, 2010. The exercise will exploit the National Traffic System as well as the communications plans within the Districts.
The exercise will take quite a bit of planning on the part of the DECs and especially on the part of the VHF Net Managers.
On February 25, an online meeting was held with the District Emergency Coordinators to roll out the plans for the exercise. The slides used in that meeting are available here. (PDF 772k)
A detailed manual has been prepared for the DECs. That manual, in HTML form, is available here. A version of the manual focused on the needs of NTS Net Managers is available here.
The exercise will expect the District to contact each of the individual counties and get a response before returning a summarized response to the State EOC. There is plenty of time for individual counties to engage in activities needed within their jurisdiction.
Communication between the VHF nets and the Districts will be via FM simplex. This will require DECs and Net Managers to arrange simplex relays, in some cases, perhaps many simplex relays.
While the Districts may also use FM simplex to communicate with their constituent counties, and in fact are encouraged to do so, Districts may wish to use the opportunity to exploit other channels.
