Mounted search and rescue

[Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>]

Larry,

My license is Technician Class, call sign KE5CEP.  I don't hang
out on any radio nets.  Long ago I had a boyfriend into trading
cards, and I could receive but not send morse code fast enough
to pass the code test, but it wasn't my thing.  My interest is
strictly in radio applications to SAR.  The ARES/RACES crowd here
in Los Alamos is top notch.  I should spend more time with them
than I do, but with a toddler at home my time is ultra precious.

I was with Santa Fe County Sheriff's Posse, but left last year
when they decided to focus on being a recreational riding club.
I was at that time already a Planning Section Chief, so I have
my own personal entry in New Mexico's SAR Resource Directory.
And I am an individual member of NMESC, our statewide association
that represents SAR volunteers and runs ESCAPE, our annual SAR
conference (which consistently draws 200-250 people, more than
NASAR's 2005 conference in Oakland California).  I am a regular
instructor at ESCAPE and de facto coordinator of MSAR training
in New Mexico.


>P.S. - It is the FCC not the ARRL that creates the test.  The ARRL
>provides the VE's to administer the test.

It was my understanding, from questioning VE's, that the FCC
defines performance objectives for the test, then ARRL develops
the test question pools and from those question pools draws
questions for each test sitting.  Is that in fact not true?
Do you have first hand experience with this?

        Una