Emergency Management BC is holding a major earthquake response exercise this coming week from 08:00 June 7th until 12:00 June 10. We are not directly involved, as the focus is on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. However, I expect our Winlink HF email gateway (VE7RBH) will see a lot of use - it has become the ¨go-to¨ gateway for many southern BC and west coast USA stations. I believe there is a co-occuring exercise in Washington State. We will be keeping a close eye on it to see how well VE7RBH copes!
All Amateur stations are welcome to monitor the exercise or check in to the event net to be run from Kamloops EMBC station VE7KAZ. We are asked not to try contacting VE7PEP or other official stations in the ¨affected area¨ , unless requested to do so, so as to not impede traffic and add demands on stations staff.
More details on the radio operations can be found at www.percs.bc.ca/news . More info on Coastal Response generally can be found at http://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/public-safety-and-emergency-services/emergency-preparedness-response-recovery/embc/exercises/coastal_response_update_one.pdf
All Amateur stations are welcome to monitor the exercise or check in to the event net to be run from Kamloops EMBC station VE7KAZ. We are asked not to try contacting VE7PEP or other official stations in the ¨affected area¨ , unless requested to do so, so as to not impede traffic and add demands on stations staff.
More details on the radio operations can be found at www.percs.bc.ca/news . More info on Coastal Response generally can be found at http://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/public-safety-and-emergency-services/emergency-preparedness-response-recovery/embc/exercises/coastal_response_update_one.pdf
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