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From : W6HIR @ WA6NWE.#NOCAL.CA.USA
To : RACES @ ALLUS
Date : 911004/1650
Msgid : $RACESBUL.190
TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES/OFFICES VIA THE ARS
INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)427-4281
RACESBUL.190 DATE: October 7, 1991
SUBJECT: DRILL OR EXERCISE REALITY, PART 3/3
(By April Moell, WA6OPS. Conclusion)
8. You are not likely to handle much traffic. In a drill
most people rarely simulate the kind of phone stress they would
have in a real incident. Whether you are in a drill or the real
thing, you are a support communications system. YOU ARE THERE
JUST IN CASE. QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY, IS WHAT MATTERS. If you
are on duty for three hours and handle only one message -- it was
still important and worthwhile for you to be there. If you can
get the one message through that they need -- YOU ARE VALUABLE.
9. The more exposure volunteers have to the agency they
serve, the easier it is for all concerned when we are activated.
###
The preceding was prepared by April Moell for the Hospital
Disaster Support Communications System in Southern California.
Throughout you can see the importance of the necessity for
reliability, dependability, performance, and knowledge of the
served agency by its volunteers. There are some volunteer
activities that require little or no prior knowledge of the
served agency by a volunteer. This is NEVER the type of
volunteer we address in the weekly State RACES Bulletins and
other publications. Like the hams and other volunteers who serve
the hospitals, they must be a part of the served agency system
BEFORE the emergency strikes. Such a volunteer seeks out an
agency or organization ahead of time. They then serve because
they WANT TO as a part of an agency, an organization, or a system
as a team player. There simply is no room for loners. The days
of simply sitting down to any radio, anywhere, with no knowledge
of the served agency are gone. New people learn the system and
the procedures. So do the old timers or they lapse into
retirement.
Probably one of the most frustrating statements from a soul
who stands up at a recruiting session for emergency
communications specialists is, "I've been a ham for over forty
years. What in the world can YOU possibly teach ME?" Again,
thanks to April and the other professionals who send us Bulletin
material.
As retired Hawaii State RACES Radio Officer Henry Gamache,
KH6AIN, once said, "Just because you're an Amateur doesn't mean
you don't do a professional job."
EOM