Events & Meetings

OCHEART Team Meeting June 15, 2022

6/15 Team Meeting

OCHEART Team Zoom meeting for June 2022 includes an update on what our Leadership Team has been discussion, a conversation about the recent county wide Winlink exercise and some finding from our recent simplex net. We also welcomed Bob Smith from San Bernardino County who is working to create a hospital emergency communication support team […]

OCHEART Team Meeting May 18, 2022

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 […]

OCHEART Team Meeting May 14, 2022 - In Person

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 […]

OCHEART Team Meeting February 16, 2022

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 […]

OCHEART Team Meeting 2021 06

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 […]

July 18, 2020 Team Meeting

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 […]