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  • From: Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>
  • To: MSAR Riders <MSAR-Riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [MSAR] Michigan MSAR plus amateur radio
  • Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:29:20 -0400

Below is a report of a 2004 joint SAR mission of a mounted
SAR unit and an ARES/RACES amateur radio group, in Michigan.
The original source:

http://www.wi-aresraces.org/newsletters/0407ECNewsletter.pdf

Una Smith
New Mexico


>Marinette County ARES Provides Search and Rescue Comm Assistance
>
>By Bill Becks, WA8WG, EC Marinette County
>
>Editors Note: The following is Bill's report from the search and
>rescue operation their ARES group helped with. It exemplifies
>the type of work ARES can do.
>
>A joint team consisting of Marinette and Oconto County
>ARES/RACES members joined the search effort on Saturday for a
>39-year old Porterfield Township woman missing since last
>October and presumed deceased here in Marinette County.
>
>Our mission was to provide the communications necessary to
>coordinate the search activities of the Bay Area Mounted Search
>and Rescue Team from Menominee County, Michigan who were limited
>to the use of Garmin Rhino short range GPS/UHF radios. We
>accomplished this by assigning ARES members to drive into areas
>adjacent to the riders and equipped them with similar low power
>radios to maintain contact with the riders using two meters as
>the backbone to communicate information among search units as
>well as to and from the command post.
>
>This method worked very well as we were able to keep one or more
>ARES units in contact with the rider teams at all times to
>maintain safety, command, and control. Although the body of the
>missing woman was not recovered during the search, the riders
>were able to radio in two reports that required deputies of the
>Marinette County Sheriff Department to investigate with one of
>them regarding the discovery of criminal activity not related to
>the target of the search.
>
>This served as an excellent training opportunity for our members
>having a very positive impact on the importance of reliable
>radio communications to the members of the Bay Area Mounted
>Search and Rescue Team as well as leaving a very good impression
>with officials of the Marinette County Sheriff Department in
>command of search operations.
>
>Perhaps in the future we'll be called upon directly to assist on
>a broader scale having established our credibility and
>demonstrating that amateur radio is a valuable resource.





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