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Monthly DEC/EC Report ______________________________________________________________________________________ Jurisdiction: Month: Year Suwannee District September 2007 ______________________________________________________________________________________ AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY SERVICE® Total number of ARES® members: 63 Change since last month: +1 (+,-, or same) Local Net Name: Suwannee District Emergency Preparedness net Total sessions: 4 Alachua County ARES® Total sessions: 4 Dixie County ARES® Total sessions: 4 Gilchrist County ARES® net Total sessions: 4 LC-ARES® (Levy) Total sessions: 4 Suwannee Valley ARES®/SKYWARN NET (Columbia) Total sessions: 4 NTS liaison is maintained with the Northern Florida AREC Net and Northern Florida Phone Net Number of drills, tests and training sessions this month: 28 Person hours 122.5 Number of public service events this month: 1 Person hours 32 Number of emergency operations this month: 0 Person hours 0 Total number of ARES® operations this month: 29 Total Person hours 154.5 Comments: Suwannee District The district wide net, held on Thursdays at 8:30pm on 146.820 MHz (-) PL123.0 Hz., is averaging around 24 check-ins a week. This is about the same as last month. Please encourage EmComm members in your county to check in. Thanks to everyone who participated in the SET on October 6. I spoke with ARES(R) members in seven counties. Two pieces of traffic were passed on to the SEC. I got good reports from all of the EC's who participated. A big thanks goes out to Jeff Capehart W4UFL for planning the SET. The seven counties I contacted were Alachua, Columbia, Gilchrist, Levy, Suwannee, Union, and Hamilton. Alachua County Alachua County ARES held four nets this month, averaging 21 member check-ins, which was a 75% increase from last month’s average of 12. The increased check-ins were directly attributable to use of the Dialogic automated calling system to remind members by a cell phone or home telephone call to check in to the net. For the month, members earned service credit of 43 hours for ARES nets. At our monthly ARES training meeting, we had a presentation on the EMWIN system attended by 10 hams for a total of 20 hours service credit. Seven Alachua ARES members participated with and 15 hams checked in to the annual SET on |