5/18 Team Meeting
Thanks to everyone who attended our May 18, 2022 Team Zoom meeting. After recapping our May In-Person meeting this past Saturday, we discussed the status of some of our projects and discussed SEMS (Standardized Emergency Management System) that California uses during emergencies. SEMS is the prototype that FEMA used to model and create their NIMS […]
Team Meeting…In Person
We will be holding our next in-person Team meeting on Saturday, May 14th from 0900 to Noon. Our meeting will working with Winlink (bring your radio, connection device and or cable, and your laptop) to ensure everyone can send and receive Winlink messages at least using a Telnet (internet) connection. Our goal is to have […]
2/16 Team Meeting
Thanks to everyone who attended our February 16, 2022 Team Zoom meeting. We covered the status of some of our projects and discussed SEMS (Standardized Emergency Management System) that California uses during emergencies. SEMS is the prototype that FEMA used to model and create their NIMS structure. The two are very similar, but in California […]
9/15 Team Meeting
Thanks to everyone who attended our September 15th Team Zoom meeting. We discussed our participation in and the results of the HEAR test from earlier in the day, recapped our first in person meeting at the end of August and had a general discussion about the upcoming OCRACES drill on October 2nd. The meeting was […]
8/18 Team Meeting
Thanks to everyone who attended our August Team Zoom meeting. We discussed how we plan to monitor various alternate radio frequencies during wide spread emergency events so that we can stay informed , our revised Net scripts that will bring more variety to our weekly net events, and we discussed our in-person meeting at CARE […]
6/16/2021 Team Meeting
A huge thank you to Kriss Larson (KR6ISS) for covering the Orange County Emergency Channels that can be monitored with your amateur radio or a regular scanner. You can watch the discussion here and read the details below. All Orange County city and county police, fire and paramedic communications are on one 800 mHz digital […]
OCHEART Team Meeting 2/17/2021
Our February OCHEART Team Zoom meeting was a terrific introduction to APRS lead by Ted Lavino (KG6LZP). Starting with the definition of APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System), Ted reviewed how APRS works (see APRS.org for additional details), the frequency we use here in the US (144.39) and the system’s architecture. From there Ted explained the […]
OCHEART Team Meeting 1/20/2021
At the OCHEART January 2021 Zoom Team meeting, Kriss Larson (KR6ISS) educated the Team about the non-Amateur communication tools that most U.S. medical facilities use today. He discusses how the staff members use the various communication devices and explores some of the options additional options available to hospital staff as well as some of the […]
OCHEART BOSS Team Meeting 12/6/2020
The OCHEART BOSS team held it’s first meeting to discuss the details for the upcoming simplex exercise. OCHEART members participating in these BOSS exercises will test the ability to communicate using amateur radio simplex channels from various medical facilities to various hilltop locations in Orange County. The results of these tests will be used to […]
Team Meeting July, 18 2020
We held our first Team meeting via Zoom on Saturday July 18th and had a good turnout. Nicki Harwood (Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, St. Joseph Medical Center in Orange) spoke to us about how important Ham operators are to the hospital when communications systems fail and what we will be doing when we respond to an […]