1. MAY 2016 Washington County ARES Membership Meeting

2. Visitors New Members

3. DO YOU KNOW THESES PEOPLE Kenneth Gies K7IQI Patrick Flanagan KE7NVB James Buxton W7BUX Dean Carlstrom KC7LAP Joesph Curtin AE7LD Douglas Foran WA7LET William Hood W2FEZ Nyla Whitehead KE7UXB We have their Red Cards

4. Coming Events SEA-PAC June 3,4,5 Cascadia Rising 2016 June 7-10 Field Day June 25,26 Air Show Aug 5,6,7 Hillsboro July 4 th Parade

5. Sea-Pac Bar-B-Q

6. Mesh Networking Meetup Wednesday, May 25 th 7pm-9pm Wash. Co. Sheriff’s Office (Upstairs Training Room) 215 SW Adams Ave, Hillsboro, OR 97123 Parking garage across directly across Adams Ave. More information on http://WashCoARES.org/ (under Operating Modes, HSMM). Contact Chris Arnesen, ku7pdx@arrl.net, with questions or comments.

7. How the RMS Post Office Works 1.The gateway is disconnected from the internet 2. The gateway is now a post office 4. The inbound message is held 5. Addressee must call the post office to pick up their messages 3. A station sends message to the post office addressed to another station 6. When the internet returns the gateway returns to normal use

10. What about Delivery & Replies Request Read Receipt sent back to the PO ---- Do not use Post Office holds the read Receipt until it is picked up Adds overhead and storage space No guarantee of a reply from the EOC

11. Questions?

12. Cascadia Rising 2016 Check the programming of your radio Use the current Ham Radio Template Update RMS Express software Use current RMS Templates Use Tactical call signs ie. EOC - Tigard Voice Messages read slowly and speak clearly Type addresses carefully WC7EOC not WC7OEC

13. Cascadia Rising 2016 Who’s Playing WCSO –LEC WCSO – East WCCCA LUT Beaverton Forest Grove/Cornelius TVF&R – CBOC TVF&R – NOC Tigard Banks City** Sherwood Tualatin Tuality Hospital – HIO Tuality Hospital - FG CERT Who’s not Hillsboro Banks Fire Joint Water Commission Hillsboro Water Distribution St. Vincent Hospital Intel King City Gaston Schools

14. Cascadia Rising 2016 Frequencies Repeaters 147.360 Primary Repeater 147.320 Misc. contacts/Resource Net 146.900 Secondary Repeater 147.400 Primary Simplex Post Office(s) 144.980 WC7EOC-10 145.550 KC7PMU-10 Salem 146.400 Simplex HF Voice 3.964 80M Net (Primary) 7.248 40M Net (if needed) HF Pactor TBD

15. Cascadia Rising 2016 SimCell Located at TVF&R NOC Injects for Non-Players Injects from County and State

16. Cascadia Rising 2016 Emergency Managers Create/Inject Messages from their Agency

17. Cascadia Rising 2016 Time Line: 09:00 Earthquake occurs 09:05 EOC activation 09:09 Comms failure 09:30 – 1600 Injects & Messages from ?? 17:00 End of play day 1 Days 2 – 4 No Amateur Radio except EOC standby

18. Questions ?

19. Special Request OOEM Needs our help Contact Lynn Burrell

20. NO Second Saturday in June

21. No Station Managers Meeting In June

22. Tuesday Net 146.900Mhz T127.3hz Check in for latest details on Cascadia Rising 7:00 PM

23. Remember Learn By Doing Participate Have Fun

24. Questions Comments

25. www.washcoares.org Sign up NOW One Last Thing

26. That’s All Folks