TO: ALL WOOD COUNTY ARES MEMBERS (OFFICIAL)
ALL ARES AND NON-ARES AMATEURS ANYWHERE (INFORMATION)
FROM: KEN HARRIS WA8LLM ARRL DISTRICT 3 EMERGENCY COORDINATOR
WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS INC.
WOOD COUNTY BULLETIN NR 16.26 DATE: June 26, 2016
SUBJECT: IT'S OVER
The annual Amateur Radio Relay League Field Day is now in the history books.
If you prepared for, set up, operated in, and/or tore down, you should now have an idea how Emergency Communications in a MAJOR disaster would operate. Do you feel that your Field Day was a great success? Did you see anything that could be made better, or done easier? If you did, then your exercise was a success.
If you didn't find anything that couldn't be improved on, then your Field Day exercise was a failure. I have yet to see an exercise or Field Day where nothing went wrong. There is always something that can be improved.
Now that Field Day is in the history books, sit down and start making a list of what would make it better next year, or the next real event. Don't wait to start the list, you may forget something, and you'll repeat the same problems again.
Ken Harris WA8LLM
District 3 ARES District Emergency Coordinator
WCEC
Wood County WV