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TICP EXERCISE
AD5FE

On July 28 the Dona Ana County ARES Team took part in an exercise with the
Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Doña Ana County,
Luna County, Grant County, and the cities of Las Cruces, Deming and Silver City
to demonstrate Interoperability of Communications along the border area.

This was an exercise demonstrating the ability of multiple jurisdictions to work together using interoperable communications equipment in times of disaster, terrorism and all hazards the State of New Mexico prepares for. The exercise started with a participant briefing at 08:00 with the Ham part starting at 09:30, end-exercise came at about 13:30.
The Ham part was to demonstrate that we could communicate with all the different venues as well as the State EOC in Santa Fe. Conditions did not favor HF but VHF was no problem, using the Mega-Link, as well as local repeaters, we found that the “ARES Repeater” on Caballo Mtn. has quite good coverage.

For Dona Ana County we supported 5 different “venues” with Ham operators, this included 5 hams from the Las Cruces Team and 4 from the El Paso ARES Team. The Team members from Las Cruces that participated and where they were located are; the DAC/CLC EOC was manned by Henry Schotzko (AD5FE) and Kevin McNelis (K5KMC), in Rincon the NMSU PD Mobile Communications Unit (MCU) was supported by George Kopp (KD5OHA) and Wilson Moore (KF5EJS), the DASO MCU located on Hwy 9 was supported by Brad Sacca (KC5SKE). Supporting from the El Paso Team was; Ed Wood (KD5MFS) supported the LCFD MCU out at the Fairgrounds, Warren Beadle (KE5APX helped Brad at the Hwy 9 venue, and at the Chaparral DASO Substation venue were Lew Maxwell (KB5HPT) and Dale Colburn (KD5YBG).The hams that worked the exercise did a fine job and got “rave reviews” from the other participants, demonstrating that we can provide communications when other means have failed.
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MONTHLY BOARD MEETING
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MONTHLY BUSINESS MEETING
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TREASURER'S REPORT
WB4AEJ
July Income
Breakfast & Drinks   $15.00
Contributions            $0.00
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Total                       $15.00

July Expenditures
Miscellaneous Items     $6.50
Repeater                     $76.00
Electricity                    $48.26
P. O. Box                   $60.00
Water                        $14.45
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Total                          $205.21


FOR SALE
Kenwood TS-480 I am upgrading the remote base to an Elecraft K3, making my current
Kenwood TS-480 available. It recently came back from Kenwood Service
Center after a complete checkup and new firmware.

Contact Keith,W7DXX 526-2200
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OFFICERS
Pres             Vern Vonheeder     WV5N     510-909-0069     vern@wv5n.com
VPr             Cash Olsen             KD5SSJ         382-1917       kd5ssj@arrl.net
Sec              Melanie Jack           KD5UZF       
Treasurer     Fred Atkinson         WB4AEJ                              fred@wb4aej.com
BOARD
Communications       Henry Schotzko      AD5FE 526-1922     schotzko@comcast.net
Education                 Evan Salazar           KE5ZRZ
Special Events          Terry Angle             KF5DNS 640-9669  kf5dns@gmail.com
Newsletter               Alex Burr                 K5XY 522-2528       k5xy@arrl.net
Clubhouse                Bob Bennett            AD5LJ 382-0148       rpbennett1@comcast.net
Repeaters                 Robert Truitt           KE5OFK 649-4173     robtruitt@zianet.com


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