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2025 Hurricane Staffing Plan

Here’s our deployment plan should we be called up by the County to support operations associated with a hurricane or tropical storm. 2025 Hurricane Season Staffing Plan  

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Simulated Emergency Test

Our annual Simulated Emergency Test (SET) will be conducted jointly with Saint Mary’s County ARES.  Below are the SET scenario, plans & objectives, location map and planned frequency coordination (ICS-205). All Calvert AUXCOMM members are strongly encouraged to participate.  And … Continue reading

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ICS-217A Communications Resource Worksheet

Here’s the latest update to our AUXCOMM frequencies.  The VHF & UHF frequencies are programmed into the radios at our EOC in the channel numbers shown.  This list replaces the previous ICS-205 form.   Corrected K3CAL-1 digipeater frequency.  An Excel .csv … Continue reading

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Amateur Radio and Severe Weather Spotting

KC3WRX’s March 15 presentation on severe weather spotting

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Transmitter Hunting

Here’s the presentation on transmitter direction finding.

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June 22, 2022 Exercise at Huntingtown High School

Here’s a picture of the antenna location we used for this exercise. The red X marks the spot. The red O is the location we used in previous hurricane/tropical storm activation’s.

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RACES Infrastructure Improvement Update – Dec 2024

The presentation below is an update on the RACES equipment improvement program in Calvert County.  The project is now complete.  

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New version of the Emergency Operations Plan available

I received some additional feedback from a couple of members last month and I’ve unfortunately delayed the release of these changes until now.  Please take a look at this new version and download a copy for yourself. https://auxcomm.k3cal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Calvert_ARES_EOP.pdf

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