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Hospital Drills in 2013

The San Joaquin County EMS Agency holds an emergency communications drill for hospitals and clinics at 1pm on the fourth Thursday of odd-numbered months. All licensed Amateurs are invited to check in and hear the kind of messages we might pass during a real emergency.

Dates in 2013 are:

  • 5/23
  • 7/25
  • 9/26
  • 11/28

The drill takes place on the 146.655 - PL 100.0 repeater. Please join us and participate.

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Wednesday
Jan262011

vCARD's Help ARES Members "Remember" Emergency Inf

This is an idea so simple that I am kicking myself for not thinking of it years ago: Distributing an ARES vCARD to members that contains contact information and the frequencies we might use during an incident.

Microsoft Outlook and Mac Mail support them, for sure, and I think Google Apps does, also. As far as I know, when you click on a vCARD pretty much any PC or Mac address book knows how to create a new entry containing the information. 

Since many people now carry copies of their address books with them, this could be an excellent way to make sure they have your emergency information available. (I am wondering, however, whether all address books pickup the “notes” field from the vCARD. Please tell me how this works for you!)