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The
Shingletown
Emergency
Radio
Emergency Radio Operations
Center TEAM
WARNING
- RADIO UPDATES REQUIRED (5/11/2022): Due to
continuing malicious interference
on Channel 10 (55) (Primary Ham Repeater), stations may only be able to listen, but not
transmit on that Ham Repeater.
Additionally,
5/28/2022 - due to continuing malicious interference on Village
9 (primary Village and inter-area relay), Operator Level 1, 2, 4,
and 5 radios for the Village, Midway, Long hollow and
other Areas relaying into the Village Core Net, must be
re-programmed. Failure to have your radios programmed for the
updates will result in your inability to communicate into the
Village Core Net operations (EROC). Only active participating
stations (i.e., monitoring. reporting into SER radio net
operations. and
participating in emergency tone outs - e.g., wildfires, etc... )
and which are following SER procedures and in good standing, will
receive the updates for their Operator Level. Others may be able
to listen; however, you may only be hearing summaries of net operations conducted by
other procedures. If there is not enough time due to
circumstances, you may not receive any information. In any case, you will
not be able to transmit
into Village Core Net operations. Call 530-474-3267 to
schedule radio updates (which are done at no charge). This
is all volunteer to help protect against raging wildfire risks.
Success totally depends on people helping out.
As of 1/27/2022, the SER Plan has been
modified to establish a volunteer Emergency Radio Operations
Center TEAM (EROC TEAM) with a purpose to continue
conducting regular practice drills and practices, and
conduct emergency communications. Due
to the local ham efforts (led by a few key persons in a
Club) to destroy the Shingletown Emergency Radio
Plan, we have had to recognize the
resulting SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED radio response and Area
assistance the SER Plan previously had. . The Area COORDINATION
goals for emergency wild fire (and other emergency) tone outs
have thus been reduced to reflect this reality. Only limited Areas are
presently being coordinated. Other
Areas, and Hams, are not participating and have not been
helping.
At
present, we have a great team of selected volunteer Hams and Non Hams who
regularly participate. This EROC TEAM (Non Hams and
Hams) is our focus for seeking
to achieve an Activation Ready group that can conduct and run
emergency radio communications (both on Ham and Area
Nets). Assistance is still needed. We only have 5 Ham
operators who are helping out. We need more.
As of 1/27/2022, the SER Plan has been
modified to establish a volunteer Emergency Radio Operations
Center TEAM (EROC TEAM) to continue conducting regular
practice drills and provide radio response BUT NOW WITH A
REDUCED coordination to
emergency wild fire (and other emergency) tone outs. THUS,
SER IS NO LONGER ATTEMPTING TO COORDINATE ALL OF
SHINGLETOWN. ONLY SPECIFIC AREAS ARE PARTICIPATING. Other
Areas were simply no longer participating or helping out. Attempting
to coordinate such Areas was a futile. Other Areas
previously set up still have their radios, and frequency
allocations. They can still derive benefit from the EROC Teams
activations. However, it is up to them to decide if they are
going to actually do something for their neighborhoods
The following Areas (and/or individuals
therein) are the Areas / Neighborhoods which regularly
participate, seek to monitor the scan plan 24/7, respond to
emergency tone outs and provide radio assistance; and follow the
SER Plan procedures. As such, coordination of emergency
communications is now focused on these EROC TEAM Areas
only: Village (Operations Center), Midway, Long
Hollow, Rest Area (ham operator); and Battle Creek (ham
operator).
If you desire and intend to actually
participate, please call 530-474-3267.
This EROC TEAM approach is necessary so that
the Emergency Communications System can continue to operate.
Without people who are willing to actually help out, the
system simply will not be able to survive.
With this Team approach, the goal is that wild
fire information can be made available to Shingletown. The EROC
Team volunteers plan on doing the best they can. However,
without a large geographic area to gather reports from (which we
previously had), this task has become much more. For example, if
the EROC Team volunteers internet fails, that vital information
source is gone. With the Ham boycott, other Areas which
may have internet are no longer participating.
Some reasons for this major modification
(which has resulted in substantial work to modify the frequency
plan; modify operational procedures; remove certain
formats; modify Formats; terminate projects (e.g.,
coordination with OES for alerting); rendering prior training
materials and videos out of date, etc...), are discussed
BELOW.
This EROC TEAM approach (with modifications to
the Frequency Plan and issuing multiple levels of restricted
frequencies and other defensive operation modes) is necessary so
that the Emergency Communications System can attempt to continue
to operate.
Briefly, immediately following the initiation
of and continuation of destructive work by the President of the local ham club
(Dar Walker, W6IO) (including: his making repeated false
statements about Non Hams and emergency use of Ham frequencies
to save human life;
his seeking to remove the 2 backbone repeaters from the SER
system which was operating; his making false and deceitful statements about the 8 o'clock
monitoring procedures designed to facilitate 24/7 monitoring);
the take over attempt; and the Ham "followers"
boycott; the SER Plan went from being able to
activate (within seconds) over 100+ to 150 square miles of Area
(and almost immediately provide coordinated emergency wild fire
net reporting), to the present situation where one Ham was on
the radio requesting help for an active fire net while hams
listened, but none of them assisted. The destructive
work done by W6io, and his followers, has destroyed a
community emergency communications system for wild fires that
took approximately 7 years to build.
11-29-2020
SER
Scan Plan - STARC 165 repeater removed. Read HERE More recently, during the early part
of 2022 (on the Air) w6io boasted about his tactics to avoid
paying for a TV cable his family member had ruined due to a burn
pile. He bragged that "well, I am a devious
person". Well, such a devious person (his own words)
has intentionally destroyed an Emergency Communications
Plan which took years to build and which was working extremely
well. Why a "club" would even have such a person be
its "President", much less be allowed to be a
member, is beyond comprehension. It certainly does not
reflect well upon any "club". Now, we are
struggling to keep the system operational as fire season is
here, and we can fully expect a bad fire season. [See FAX
December, 2020. See also, FAX of September,
2021 confirming emergency use by non ham reasonable to save
life (FCC Acting Chief Counsel, Umair Javad (per FCC
website), is the person who advised the Congressman's office
staff of this position); also see SER
POLICY PROCEDURES - NON HAMS IN EMERGENCIES - FCC regulations
and FCC response:].
Thank God for the 4 Shingletown hams that are currently helping. If they are
absent (remember, this is all volunteer and we can't be here all
of the time), the entire Ham
portion of the system collapses and its resources and benefits
rendered useless during an emergency. Thus, emergency wild fire
information gathering, processing, and sharing between
neighborhoods, as well as ground teams viewing of a fires location
and progress, etc..., is removed. The local ham club boycott is such that
requests for assistance during wild fires is simply ignored,
while such ham operators listen and do nothing. During one Fire
Net, a ham came on to advise that he had a radio with all of the
Cal Fire frequencies in it. When asked to assist by monitoring a
Cal fire Tactical (we needed help) - the ham would not
help. So, being a "Ham" is all about the toys
you have and bragging about them during a Fire Net, but refusing
to help. When I first started this project years ago, I
was told by a public safety official that they didn't like to
work with Hams. The "emergency" service aspect
which Hams love to talk about appears to be window dressing, at
least in Shingletown.
We
additionally have continued to be subjected to emergency
communications blocking both on Ham and Neighborhood nets during
actual fires, in addition to being subjected to keying of the
repeater during the night and pre-dawn hours which destroys the emergency 24/7
monitoring for all of Shingletown.
In order to at least attempt to avoid becoming
another "Paradise" fire situation, immediate changes
were necessary. We have been at the point that it became
clear that it was delusional to think that Shingletown could
"rely" on local hams or that they would
assist.
Thank you to those 4 Hams
that are helping out!
As a result, the EROC TEAM of NON
HAMS AND HAMS (IF AVAILABLE) WILL CONDUCT EMERGENCY
COMMUNICATIONS. IF THERE ARE ONLY NON HAMS AVAILABLE FROM THE EROC
TEAM AT THE TIME OF A WILD FIRE EMERGENCY, THEY ARE TO
RUN THE EMERGENCY NET (EITHER ON VILLAGE 1 MURS AND/OR HAM
FREQUENCIES AS NECESSARY TO SAVE LIFE). The objective is to
have a TEAM that works together and functions as a cohesive unit
in the time of stress, potential panic, and when the need for
critical information is "NOW". All of this
is volunteer. So, if people don't help out, then there is no
system of communication and no warning for that fast moving wild
fire when all cell and landlines stopped working and we never
got that reverse 911 call.
For those who continue to be of the viewpoint
that a wild fire does not constitute an immediate threat to the
safety of human life and/ or immediate threat to property, ...
you can view photos of Paradise and other Wild fires - HERE.
For
Information, the following
matters are no longer being worked on and/or removed from web
site, as result of above situation.
SHINGLETOWN
EMERGENCY RADIO
COMMUNICATIONS
OPERATIONS MANUAL
[
S E R C O M ] - HERE (IN PROCESS) (WORD VERSION)
Radio
SER Plan Frequencies - progam into your radios (due
to intentional interference with the emergency communications
plan - removed from web site).
SER FREQUENCY ALLOCATIONS
AND SCAN PLAN HERE UPDATED
Please call 474-3267 for coordination and
don't use another Areas frequency allocations. Objective is for
all Areas to be able to run emergency nets at the exact same
time without interference; and at the same time Have Ham Nets
Operating with all Nets being Coordinated (i.e., Hams and Non
Hams - using Area Coordinators). Procedures are important
for this to work. System is designed to handle 80 plus station
reports from 10 or more Areas, and have all results mapped and
Triangulated with a summary report being completed - all within
approximately 30 MINUTES! (the area is over 100+square miles -
showing who can't dial 911; who has no power ....; earthquake
magnitudes; with all areas having completed a Brevity Fire Watch
report. Non Hams merely have to plug in and follow the simple
base level reporting. The SER system handles the rest. But, we
need volunteers - that's you!
Area
Channel 1 - Inter-Area Communications (Fmt Romeo 15) (MURS
RELAY HUBS - INTER-AREA COMMUNICATIONS) (due
to intentional interference with the emergency communications
plan Format removed from web site)
MURS RELAY HUBS INTER- AREA
COMMUNICATION . FMT ROMEO 15 HERE.
updated 11/15/2021
CH 1 INTER-AREA COMMUNICATIONS. RELAY
REPORTING - PROPAGATION
TESTING. ALL AREAS MUST DO TESTING.
Removed.
. SER
PLAN - COORDINATING WITH CAL FIRE AND OES.
Read HERE
. NOTE: THESE EFFORTS TO COORDINATE OES ALERTING THROUGH THE SER SYSTEM
HAVE STOPPED.
SER
- PROPOSED ALERTING
PROCEDURES WHEN
EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION RECEIVED FROM OFFICE OF EMERGENCY
SERVICES - SHASTA COUNTY. WHAT HAMS
AND NON HAMS ARE
TO DO.
SER POLICY WAS
HERE.
NOTE: THESE EFFORTS TO COORDINATE ALERTING WITH OES HAVE
STOPPED.
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TRAINING
AID VIDEOS / PDFs; and RESOURCES
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TRAINING
AID VIDEOS / PDFs; AND RESOURCES HERE
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No longer updating
WHICH ONE WILL HIT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD -
REFUSE TO BE A VICTIM
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FIRE SEASON
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POWER OUT, SNOW
BOUND, NO 911
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SER
FREQUENCY ALLOCATIONS AND SCAN PLAN
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REMOVED FROM WEB SITE.
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FREQUENCY
ALLOCATIONS AND "SCAN PLAN" (AKA
"SCAN") - Frequency plan revised.
Forced to design multiple frequency plans used
for the EROC Team; and the need to have
restricted and limited distributions to seek
to avoid the malicious interference with
emergency communications (e.g., forest fires,
etc...).
12/29/2021
due to intentional interference with the
emergency communications plan, interference
with actual radio communications, false radio
emergency signals on plan frequencies, radio
and TV noise while PTT held down, ETC..., the
linked documents have been removed.
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HAM
FREQ. PLAN BLOCK 1 & 2: FMT
NOVEMBER, Procedure
for Designating Primary Frequency / Alternate
Primary Frequency when low battery, bad
weather, non operating repeaters and other
situations on page 2 of Format November.
IF A SITUATION ARISES, SER PLAN NETS MAY
BE ACTIVATED BY ANY PARTICIPATING HAM STATION
OPERATOR AT ANY TIME (24/7). SCAN THE
PLAN FOR ACTIVATION ALERTS. Your radio must be
turned ON, and Scanning the Plan (or be on the
Alert Frequency), to make the plan work.
NEIGHBORHOODS SHOULD SCAN THE PLAN FOR HAM
ACTIVATIONS SO THAT THEIR LOCAL AREA /
NEIGHBORHOODS (CH 1 - NON HAM FREQ ) CAN BE
ACTIVATED IF NECESSARY.
NEEDS
TO BE UPDATED FOR REMOVAL OF 165 REPEATER -
SEE FMT YANKEE 4 BELOW.
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YANKEE 4 - NON HAMS PROGRAM THESE FREQUENCIES
INTO YOUR RADIO
11/29/2020 / UPLOADED SUCH
CONFORMING CHANGES 1/20/2021]
UPDATED
10/29/2021 11/1/2021
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YANKEE 5 AREA
/ NEIGHBORHOOD FREQ ALLOCATION [MURS
/ FRS] UPDATED
7/16/2019 SEE YANKEE 5A BELOW FOR
ALLOCATIONS NOT CURRENT CALL NATHAN
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YANKEE 5A SUMMARY OF AREA
/ NEIGHBORHOOD FREQ ALLOCATION [MURS / FRS]
UPDATED
8/25/2020
NOT CURRENT CALL NATHAN
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