from KC2WI; Pete Newell; ARES Section Emergency Coordinator, Northern New York
I am sending this to you for information and action.
Please pass this info on to all hams and please make every effort to
participate this weekend November 4~5, 2017.
People in the know are VERY concerned about the effect of a
large scale coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun, or of the EMP from
detonatioin of a nuclear weapon high in the atmosphere. The former is known to
have occured and is predicted to happen again. Given the current state of
political affairs, the latter is a distinct possibility either from North Korea
or if some terrorist organization gets control of a nuclear weapon.
Either would devastate the power grid and any equipment
connected to it. The result would be widespread loss of electrical power
and by extension virtually everthing else that society depends on. Most
unprotected electronics would be destroyed, especially if connected to any
external wires like power cords, the power grid, or antennas, or even ground
wires.
http://nnyara.net/COMEX17-4/Electronics_and_Communication_Vulnerability.ppt <<read this and you will see the potential
magnitude of the problem.
In the case of a CME we would have about 12 hours between
the event and when the effects hit Earth. I would get notice by email, text,
phone from MARS. I would try to pass it on to you. You would want to disconnect
absolutely everything from power grid and further protect
whatever possible.
It is assumed that at lease some hams would have advance
warning, could protect equipment ear or some would have spare equipment ,
and therefore could operate after the CME. Since virtually all other systems
would be inoperable, amateur radio could be the only method of gathering info
for initial damage assessment.
Therefore, MARS has been tasked by the DOD with contacting
Amateur Radio Operators to gather this info.
For the purposes of this EXERCISE, we assume that the CME
hits on Friday, you have been warned in some way or anther (consider this your
SIMULATED WARNING), have protected your equipment, and by Saturday
the electromagnetic radiation levels have decreased sufficiently that intact
radio equipment can be operated.
Commencing Saturday and continuing through Sunday, MARS
operators will be on HF, VHF, UHF ham bands using thier ham calls, and on 60
Meters using their MARS calls looking for QSOS with hams to obtain
informal reports of the status of critical infrastructure and services in every
county of the US. Repeater contacts are permitted, but jno use of Echolink of
other non-radio means.
Factual
information about local conditions are requested. Reports generated in
the exercise should not depict fictional or scenario based information.
Please make an effort to make thses contacts. I plan to be
on the NYS Phone Traffic & Emergeny net 3925 6PM Saturday night and the North
Country Group 3958 8:30 AM Sunday morning. I iwll also try to be on 3935
Saturday morning starting around 8:30 AM for the Carrier Net pre-net. If these
times and frequencies are not convenient, please reply and we may be able to
set up a diferent schedule.
Something to think about for your ARES/RACES group: For
purposes of this exercise, repeater contacts are allowed, but if this very bad
day scenario actually happens, amateur repeaters will be destroyed just as
easily as commercial and public service communications infrastructure, so
you better prepare for emergency communications using only point to point
simplex either on VHF/UHF or on HF.
EXERCISE************
EXERCISE ************* EXERCISE
l 4 Nov
1200Z (local Saturday morning) begin operations following Simulated solar
storm, and begin collecting and reporting county status reports.
A PowerPoint Presentation to help describe what might be expected
during a real "bad day" event caused by a CARRINGTON CLASS SOLAR STORM
can be downloaded from the Northern New York Amateur Radio Association web
site.
Your
participation is requested.
Pete Newell KC2WI
ARES Section Emergency Coordinator, Northern New York http://nnyara.net
Coordinator, Lewis County Emergency Coordinators Group http://lcecg.org
ARES EC / RACES RO, Lewis County
MARS - Military Auxiliary Radio System LMSC NNY - AFA2CQ
It is in fact a post to be shared. We are facing a large scale coronal mass ejection from the sun this has to be stopped. I will pass on this message among my friend circle. Wish you all the best.
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