The IC or Operations Officer will make assignments from the assignment sheet.

Once our main briefing of all participants has concluded:

• Find different spots in the rear of the auditorium to stand.

• First we will identify 8 Net Control Operators for the first round

• They will be told to go to the ARECC Facilitator in the rear of the auditorium and you will escort them to the Radio Room. (Make sure they know who you are)

• Once those folks have left the auditorium, we will begin briefing the field unit players.

• We hope to have enough participants for:

33- Field Reporting positions (11 per TAC Net)

14- Operators to fill in as EMA-Red Cross & other nets.

4- As Standby Nets

Total needed is 51 people.

• If we do not have 51 people to fill the spots, we will have to use some short cuts.

First to go is the Red Cross Formal Traffic Nets. (-2 of 14)

The Red Cross Shelter Net can be handled by the Facilitator as it is short lived. (-1 of 14)

The Red Cross Hamilton TAC Net can also be handled by one of the other "Senders" as this roll too is short lived. (-1 of 14)

That leaves 10 needed just as the agency’s nets.

Field Units can run with as few as 5 per group with the following rotation.

Operator #1 – River 1 and River 6

Operator #2 – River 2 and River 8

Operator #3 – River 3 and River 9

Operator #4 – River 4 and River 10

Operator #5 – River 5 and River 11

The facilitator can read the traffic from River #7 – that one is short lived.

We will coordinate the drill as best as possible on the FACILITATORS NET 446.025 PL 100.0 or 155.160 PL 103.5

Heads Up:

We can almost guarantee you that there is going to be a lot of upset people.

From what we have been hearing on the weekly nets some of these guys still do not know how to use tactical call signs.

Luckily the drill has a written dialog that DOES emphasize HOW it is suppose to be done, except it was not written into it to end with your FCC call. BRIEF your crew to give their FCC call at the end of their transmission.

This indicates your exchange is complete, and it fulfills the FCC requirement for 10-minute ID.

They are also not ready to handle a high volume of traffic, all emergency traffic, with multiple requests for them to notify a multitude of agencies etc. all in a short time span.

These are problem we anticipate. Encourage them to hand around for the debriefing.

All three TACTICAL Nets will be getting the same exact script read to each of them.

This is so we can later compare apples to apples. Different scripts on different nets would leave us nothing to compare to. The only arguments that will stand is how the information was delivered.

Watch your scripts. Facilitators parts are marked in red where you need to do something.

NOT everything marked in RED will pertain to your particular assignment.

Go through it and if you have questions ASK NOW.

ARECC facilitator only has ONE INJECT to deal with-changing of NCO operators-do that by letting the ARECC Net manager know it is time to change over.

The RED INJECTS are director notes-so act on them accordingly.