On Saturday, October 26, 2024 members of ARESDEC participated in the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) Simulated Emergency Test (SET) to practice operations that mimic an actual emergency event. For three hours, a total of 13 members operated an on-air exercise using a scenario where a cyberattack had caused widespread power outages throughout the state, […]
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ARRL’s Simulated Emergency Test (SET) was October 7 – 8, 2023. This nationwide exercise is the chance to test personal emergency-operating skills and the readiness of communications equipment and accessories in a simulated emergency-like deployment. The ARRL’s Amateur Radio Emergency Service ® (ARES®), the National Traffic System (NTS), the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES),
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R1D5 along with several other regions/districts participated in a mini SET (Simulated Emergency Test) to help R10D3 demonstrate the capabilities of ARES and Amateur Radio to their served agencies in Lincoln County. The mini SET also served to prepare individual ARES districts for the upcoming statewide SET in October. The simulated emergency was based on
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On 3 October 2020, R1D5 was activated via Colorado Volunteer Mobilizer, a system managed by Colorado Department of Health and Environment, and the SET scenario was structured as follows: “Foreign hackers have successfully hacked into Colorado’s power grid shutting down power across the entire Front Range region. The power grid shutdown leaves most of the
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