Semi-Annual Drills
Results for the May 13th "Rogue A.I." Semi-Annual Drill
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Results Map for RMS Participants (Not P2P) |
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My Score: Interpreting your Results Score |
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[UPDATED] Results Map for P2P Participants
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Semi-Annual Drill for May 13th, 2023: "Rogue A.I."
- An exercise with instructions for completing an ICS-213 that includes additional local information
- Communicating your report via RF and optionally sending your report in via P2P
[PDF] Instructions for "Rogue A.I." Semi-Annual Drill
November 12th, 2022: "Operation Incoming" Semi-Annual Drill
Results Maps and Summary of
Semi-Annual P2P and RMS Drill
Peer-to-Peer ("P2P") Results
Our P2P targets received 795 messages of all types:- total FSR messages received: 360, images: 0
- total ICS messages received: 361, images: 204
Our most "successful" Field station, AE0NR, in Boys Town, NE, sent 20 FSR messages and 22 ICS messages.
Here are the maps:
P2P Connection map
Field map
Target map
The Drill did ask some very specific questions and those responses are in the ICS message file
RMS (non-P2P) Results
RMS Results by Clearinghouse:RMS Results by Grade:
Your Submitted Images: Thumbnail Version
Your Submitted Images: Montage
Instructions for "Operation Incoming", Version 1.2
May 14th, 2022: Operation "Ashfall" Semi-Annual Drill:
May 14th Results Maps: "Operation Ashfall"
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Non-P2P Results Map, by Clearinghouse: Non-P2P Results Map, by Clearinghouse Non-P2P Results Map, showing Graded Responses of Check-Ins Non-P2P Results Map, showing Graded Responses of Check-Ins Non-P2P Results Map, showing Participants' History Non-P2P Results Map, showing Participants' History P2P Results Map, showing Field and Targets, with Log Info for each Participant P2P Results Map, showing Field and Targets, with Log Info for each Participant P2P Results Map, showing Contact Counts P2P Results Map, showing Contact Counts |
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"How do I find my Check-In on the Map?"
[Click on the ▶ or the line of text above, to expand its contents] |
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Instructions for May 14th Semi-Annual Drill [PDF]Updated P2P Target Stations Spreadsheet, Version 2022.6 (May 13th) [PDF] |
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Purpose
The purpose of the Nationwide ETO (EmComm Training Organization) semi-annual communications
drill is to demonstrate the ability of Amateur Radio to provide accurate and timely messaging by forms
using email over radio (Winlink) to further the mission of the agencies and organizations that we serve.
This can involve organizations and services, including the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), Radio Amateur Civil
Emergency Service (RACES), Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS), along with many other
government agencies and non-government organizations. As accuracy and reproducible documents are a
cornerstone of modern disaster communications, the primary emphasis will be on digital written forms of
communications, as opposed to verbal.
Objectives
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Instructions for the May 14th Semi-Annual Drill [PDF]Updated P2P Target Stations Spreadsheet, Version 2022.6 (May 13th) [PDF] |
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Past Semi-Annual Drills
November 13th, 2021: "Cyber Wind" Exercise
Winlink Drills, Past and Future — 2021 Edition
Spring 2021, Fall 2020, and Spring 2020/h4>
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The EmComm Fall Drill 2020 — Summary and Results
The nationwide emergency communications drill was held on Saturday, November 14, with ARES™ and other operators asked to demonstrate the ability to deliver digital messages, using forms, to specific addresses via Winlink. Participants were tasked with sending one message to the U.S.A. Regional Clearinghouse for their geographic area.
Only Winlink-generated messages were requested. This drill was an exercise in sending messages from local sites to one of twelve Regional Clearinghouses (that is, one for each of the ten National FEMA Regions, plus Hawaii, and "ETO-DX" for non-USA participants) both to practice and to demonstrate the capability of amateur radio operators across the nation to relay information in times of need.
This drill used the messaging program Winlink as the method of delivering preformatted messages. Operators were free to use any connection mode that they had available, including the variety of digital modes on HF, VHF, UHF and Telnet.
The goal was to encourage more operators to become familiar with Winlink and its associated message templates. The primary message template for this exercise was the ICS-213 found in the Winlink catalog of forms templates. This message format allows for standardized messages to be sent and allows for the messages to be easily evaluated for correctness.
The drill started at 9:00 Eastern time and continued until 18:00 local time in each time zone. Thus there was a 9 hour window for each operator to create and send his/her message.
After many hours of number-crunching by our Regional Clearinghouse managers, the results are in: a staggering 1,750 messages were sent by 1,550 amateur radio operators in forty-seven states, plus Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Canada. This is about twice the number of the very successful first Drill in Spring of 2020.
The map below shows the locations of the participating radio operators.
Our thanks to Rob Jagde, KD2GRS, of Long Island, New York for preparing this map.
For a zoomable map, go here:
Spring 2020 Drill Summary
A group of radio amateurs organized a large-scale nationwide Emergency Communications (EmComm) drill on May 30, 2020.
Planning began last November (2019) by a handful of Volunteers. Interest within the larger radio
amateur community grew and by May a thousand were registered to participate.
Various organizations have Memoranda of Understanding with the American Radio Relay League concerning EmComm training
and exercises and this drill was organized along those lines. ARRL's Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES™)
provided hundreds of hams to support Agencies in this simulated nationwide emergency. In all, over a thousand
radio amateurs in forty states, including Hawaii and Alaska, and the territory of Puerto Rico.
The Drill was a simulated nationwide power outage and participating hams were role-playing as "shelter stations."
(No one was actually at a physical temporary shelter due to the complications of Covid-19 but we hope in
future drills that actual physical presence at specific shelters, along with non-ham volunteer
shelter personnel, will be possible.)
The drill scenario was that each "shelter station" ham was in an area that had no power,
internet or cell phone service and that the shelter manager needed to get a requisition out for materiel.
The shelter manager would give the Ham a 6409 form that he would then transmit digitally, over radio, to his
Regional Clearinghouse. There were ten of these set up around the nation to serve as collection points for
ICS and other standard forms. The Regional Clearinghouses were assumed to be "high and dry,"
with power and fully-functional internet. They would be able to collect the forms and
convert these into a plain-English document to send to a conventional email address and readable by a non-ham.
This event was a booming success. Over five hundred messages with form-data were sent, along with nearly two hundred
ICS-213's and almost a hundred shelter reports and staff assignment forms, demonstrating the ability of
amateur radio to process and deliver data-filled forms in an emergency scenario with no internet, power or
cell phone services. And, linkages between Amateur Radio EmComm Teams and other EmComm groups were strengthened more than ever. Planning is now
beginning for a Fall Drill that will build upon lessons learned in the Spring Drill.