Picture taken at the end of the Demonstration by the Security Guard for the Hospital and I’m not sure whose camera he used…
Anyway Left to Right… Earl VE3IMP EC SDG ARES, Tracy VA3TXN SAR Global 1 , VA3QV Bob , Louise Quenneville Glengarry Memorial Hospital Emergency Planner, Guy Vaillencourt Township of North Glengarry CEMC, VA3JSF Stan SDG ARES, VA3JO John SDG ARES and VE3HTR Doug SDG ARES
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If you remember back to my post of last Friday where I mentioned…
Earlier today I participated in a COMMS Demo for the Glengarry Memorial Hospital in Alexandria Ontario. The demo was to give them a view as to what equipment might be available to them to assist with communications in a emergency situation if they were to partner up with the Amateur Community…
The DEMO included 2m fm (analog), 2m fm (DSTAR) 2m fm (APRS) and 40m ssb. The VHF Bands were stronger than the HF Bands so everything worked as expected and their Emergency Prepardness Officer has lots of info now to continue with her tasking.
For us it was a group from the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (SDG ARES) and a Group from Ottawa coming together to successfully demo what I concider to be a great hobby and public safety resource.
I think it went well and a new partnership (GMH and SDG ARES) has been formed…
You might also remember that I had made mention of several cameras being there and as soon as I could find some copies I would share them with you…
So here they are…
Louise (left), Bob (center) and Guy (right) discussing the mornings events
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Earl (left), Doug (center) and Louise (right) discussing the event.
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The portable APRS station of VA3TXN
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Left to right Guy, Louise, Tracy, Bob and Earl at the HF Radio Station.
Rig was a FT 897 with a Par End Fed antenna running off the Luggage Rack on the SUV
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Now I am sure that there are more pictures out there but… so far they have not made it to my inbox and I wanted to share what I had with you while it was still a current event rather than History so the above is what I had available and now you have it…
I am also believing that this week we might be getting some Press about this courtesy of the local Glengarry News which is a weekly paper. If this happens I will share as many details as I have with you…
I would also be amazed if someone did not write this up for TCA in the near future…
73bob
Tags: Alexandria Ontario, amateur radio, Amateur Radio Emergency Services, Comms Demo, Glengarry Memorial Hospital, SDG ARES, TCA Magazine, The Canadian Amateur Magazine
