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2022 Service Denied Exercise

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The 2022 Service Denied exercise is designed to evaluate the performance of Florida amateur and SHARES radio networks during a simulated communications emergency. It is a multi-county exercise with a total of thirty-four Florida county ARES® / ACS teams participating. The exercise is designed and administered by the North Florida Section of the ARRL®. Pinellas County ACS is a participant in this exercise.

The exercise is scheduled to take place on Saturday October 1st, 2022. It will start at approximately 0730 and will terminate at approximately 1300. The following draft documents have been posted to the PACS Website.

We are actively looking for volunteers to participate. If you want to participate in the exercise, please contact Mike Drake at WA1RYQ@arrl.net no later than Wednesday September 28th so that we can assign you to a team.

PACS Training Material Posted

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The following training material is now available online.

  • Winlink Training Bulletin 14: This is the Winlink Bulletin describing the net activities planned for May 25th, 2022.
  • Weekly Training Net: This is the presentation used during the PACS Weekly training net that took place on May 24th, 2022. Record Keeping – A description of the ICS 214, Activity Log and the ICS 309 Communications Log.

PACS Training Material Posted

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The following training material is now available online.

  • Winlink Training Bulletin 10: This is the Winlink Bulletin describing the net activities planned for December 15th, 2021.
  • Weekly Training Net: This is the presentation used during the PACS Weekly training net that took place on December 7th, 2021. Management of Communications Resources Part I – ICS 217A, Communications Availability Worksheet.
  • Weekly Training Net: This is the presentation used during the PACS Weekly training net that took place on December 14th, 2021. Management of Communications Resources Part II – ICS 205, Incident Radio Communications Plan.