TO: ALL WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS AMATEURS
ALL NON-WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS AMATEURS
FROM: KEN HARRIS WA8LLM
WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS INCORPORATED
WOOD COUNTY BULLETIN NR 15.30 DATE: July 26, 2015
SUBJECT: LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE.
Assisting with events like the Half-Marathon, parades, walking, running, biking, or boating events, has a multiple purpose. It affords us the opportunity to handle tactical communications, use tactical call signs, expose Amateur Radio to the public, and provide a service to our communities that no one else but Amateur Radio could do.
If you feel you may have goofed, or made mistakes during any of these events, then you've already learned the most important lesson. Recognizing where we have failed, or gone wrong, in an event, is our best learning experience. It may be a year before we can see if we corrected the mistakes that we made, but, we know what to correct.
These events and experiences makes us better communicators, and helps us better understand communications under pressure, like during an emergency or disaster.
Use these non-emergency events to learn what to do and how to correct the mistakes. They will help to keep us from making the same mistakes in an actual disaster or emergency.
Ken Harris WA8LLM
WCEC
Wood County WV