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| October 7, 2006 - Annual nationwide Simulated Emergency Test (SET, sponsored by ARRL). The county exercise was based on a KC-10 aircraft tanker crash in west-central Allegan county that in turn started a large wildfire. After one hour, all repeaters became inoperable for the duration of the event as a test of simplex capabilities within the county and between adjoining counties. The county event was sanctioned as a formal RACES drill to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. |
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| September 17, 2006 - March of Dimes Ride for Babies. Along with Allegan county, Barry county hams provided communication support for a motorcycle ride looping through both counties to raise money for the March of Dimes. |
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| July 22, 2006 - Great Lakes Triathlon at Barlow Lake communication support. |
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| June 24-25, 2006 - Field Day at Tyden Park in Hastings. |
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| June 17, 2006 - Communication support for National 24 Hour Challenge
bicycle event. |
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| May 6, 2006 - Communication support for March of Dimes WalkAmerica in Hastings. |
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| December 20, 2005 - BARA Club Christmas Dinner at the Mexican Connexion Restaurante in Hastings. |
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| October 1, 2005 - This was a busy day! In addition to the annual nationwide Simulated Emergency Test (SET, sponsored by ARRL), we had a major exercise in Barry County. The county exercise was based
on a fire at Thornapple Manor that required evacuation of several residents. ARES, RACES, and CERT folks worked together to implement the new county personnel accountability system. We gained a fair number of
additional points for SET by contacting neighboring counties "on the
side." |
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| July 23, 2005 - Great Lakes Triathlon at Barlow Lake. Allegan County hams
helped us with this two-county event which was run entirely on 2 m simplex. There were several hundred racers! |
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| June 25-26, 2005 - Field Day at Tyden Park in Hastings. |
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| June 18, 2005 - Communication support for National 24 Hour Challenge
bicycle event. |
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| May 7, 2005 - Communication support for March of Dimes WalkAmerica in Hastings. |
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| May 2, 2005 - Several Barry County hams completed CERT training. |
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| February 17, 2005 - Barry County Skywarn training session. |
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| October and November, 2004 - Installation of two feed lines at Pennock
Hospital for the new ham antennas purchased by the Barry County Emergency
Management Department. |
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| October 28, 2004 - Full-scale, county-wide exercise.
In Barry County, amateur operators were stationed at Pennock Hospital,
the Expo Center, and the EOC.
Thanks to mutual assistance from hams in neighboring counties,
we were able to communicate with hospitals in Kalamazoo, Allegan,
and Kent Counties as well as the state EOC in Lansing. Thanks also
to the Lowell Radio Club for the use of their repeater (145.27 MHz) |
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| June 26-27, 2004 - Field Day at Tyden Park in Hastings |
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| June 19, 2004 - Assist with National 24 Hour Challenge bicycle event. |
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| February 28, 2004 - Communications assistance at the Community Action
Walk-for-Warmth. |
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| August 23, 2003 - Tour of Barry County Central Dispatch Center. |
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| July 26, 2003 - Discussion of amateur radio applications of 70 ohm coax
by Jack, K8YPW. |
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| June 28-29, 2003 - Annual ARRL Field Day at Charlton Park. |
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| June 25, 2003 - Participation in Barry County emergency exercise. A crop
duster airplane, stolen in Eaton County, crashed in eastern Barry County and
spilled hazardous materials. We provided communications support for the Red
Cross and the Barry County Emergency Manager. |
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| May 17, 2003 - Communications support for the annual Thornapple River Cleanup
at Tyden Park in Hastings. |
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| May 10, 2003 - Demonstrations of ham radio for local Cub Scouts at Camp
Michiwana. |
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| June 22-23, 2002 - Annual ARRL Field Day at Charlton Park. |
