EMCOMM U in ARRL E-LETTER

Thank you to Dennis Dura, K2DCD, and Rick Palm, K1CE, for the nice mention in the current ARRL E-Letter.

The first EMCOMM U was a success!

About 45 people attended the first EMCOMM U, held yesterday at the Ag Center in Stockton. People came from as far as Lassen County to the North and Fresno County to the South. I haven’t yet sent an email asking for attendee feedback, but will do so shortly.

Putting on the event was a lot of work and really needed more than I was able to contribute. Doing future events will require more assistance, but at least now I know what assistance I’ll need.

I want to especially thank our fine speakers for making the event interesting and enjoyable. And special thanks to the San Joaquin County EMS Agency for making the event possible and providing the location.

There were some things that could have worked better at the event, but they were minor. Overall, I was pleased and hope the attendees were as well. I learned a lot from the event and hope everyone else did, too.

Final EMCOMM U Program

EMCOMM U is this Saturday, March 14th, at the San Joaquin County Ag Center, 2101 E. Earhart Ave., Stockton CA 95206. If you Google map this, yes, it does show an open field—the building is that new.

Talk-in will be on 146.655 - PL 100.0 using K6EMS as the callsign. My cell is 209-740-7515 if you really get lost. (We are on the Highway 99 side of the Stockton Airport, take Arch Lane to the west and look for the new building on the left with the big—not tall—antenna structure).

Here is the “final” program for this Saturday’s EMCOMM U event:

Note the 0800 start time!

0800 Opening

0815 Dennis Dura, K2DCD, ARRL HQ (on the phone with video)

0900 Break

0915 Jim Opfer, KN6PE, “Introduction to OutpostPM”

1000 Break

1015 Tim Barrett, K6BIV, “An Introduction to D-STAR in EMCOMM” (includes video from Gary Pearce, AVRN)

1115 Phil Cook, San Joaquin County EMS Agency, “California Medical Volunteers and Using CAHAN For Amateur Radio Alerting”

1200 Lunch (Provided)

1300 Jim Oberhofer, KN6PE, “Advanced OutpostPM”

1345 Break

1400 Concurrent sessions: 1) Planning an Emergency Exercise (Cook, Fey, Greenwalt, Coursey) 2) APRS and EMCOMM (Harris)

1445 Break

1500 Kelley Shelley, KS6Z, “Winlink 2000 in the Real World”

15:45 Break

1600 Cedric Reese, “Integrating CERT and Amateur Radio: The Fresno Story”

1630 EMCOMM Forum — Open Discussion and Q&A hosted by David Coursey, N5FDL (We may put the speakers at tables and let people visit with them)

1730 We must be done.

If you arrive early/stay late we need volunteers to help with setup and teardown. I have ordered 60 lunches, which should be enough, even with a few late registrants. See the form on this site.

Questions? Send me a message.

See You There!

David Coursey, N5FDL
EC, San Joaquin County ARES

EMCOMM U Program Update

Hello:

Below is the draft program, as it sits at this moment, for EMCOMM U, to be held next Saturday (3/14), from 8a-4p (note earlier start) in Stockton. I have left an open slot at 2pm with the idea that someone has one or more program suggestions/ideas that really need to be presented. I have thoughts about how to fill this time, but would also be happy to do multiple breakouts if I can get some speakers lined up. If there is something you’d like to see presented—we are very digital-heavy at the moment—respond to this email with the topic and a suggested speaker and I’ll make the additions.

I also need some technical help to get Dennis Dura’s presentation off the computer and onto the big screen and into the PA system. I think I know how to do this, but if you have done it, please drop me a note. Worst case, we can have Dennis on voice-only, but I’ve sent him a camera and I know we’d like to see what he looks like. :>

We can add more digital stuff (Winlink 2000) or some emergency management training, or how to plan exercises, etc. It has been hard to get speakers volunteers are available on Saturdays and government workers aren’t. I can teach people how to organize a HamCram (in a breakout session) if you’d like.

This is your conference, so I’d like to make some additions that make it as useful and interesting as possible.

Here’s the program:

8:00 am Opening

8:10 am Dennis Dura, K2DCD, ARRL HQ (Need some tech help with this teleconference)

9:00 am Break

9:15 am Jim Oberhofer, KN6PE, Introduction to OutpostPM

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Tim Barrett, K6BIV, D-STAR: An Introduction and Use in EMCOMM

11:15 am Phil Cook, KI6OAG, San Joaquin County EMS, Ham Radio and California Medical Volunteers and Using CAHAN for Emergency Alerting

12:00 pm Lunch (Provided) Show-and-Tell Time

1:00 p.m. Jim Oberhofer, KN6PE, Advanced Outpost PM and Network Building

1:45 pm Break

2:00 pm Open Slot

2:45 pm Break

3:00 pm EMCOMM Forum: Planning For Our Future

4:00 pm Close

Please help us clean up after ourselves so we may use this facility in the future.

Thanks and 73,


David Coursey, N5FDL
EMCOMMU.org