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Jackson
County ARES will be offering IS-700 "National Incident
Management System (NIMS), An Introduction" on Saturday, August 30,
2008, from 8:00 AM until about noon. The instructor for the course will be
Dennis Gedeon, KBØNHW. The class will be offered at the Independence EOC
training room at Independence Fire Station #1 at 950 North Spring Street.
That location is across US Highway 24 from the Truman Memorial Library.
The course explains the purpose, principles, key
components and benefits of NIMS. In this course you will learn:
• The key concepts and principles underlying NIMS.
• The benefits of using ICS as the national incident management model.
• When it is appropriate to institute an Area Command.
• When it is appropriate to institute a Multiagency Coordination System.
• The benefits of using a Joint Information System (JIS) for public
information.
• The ways in which NIMS affects preparedness.
• How NIMS affects how resources are managed.
• The advantages of common communication and information management
systems.
• How NIMS influences technology and technology systems.
• The purpose of the NIMS Integration Center
If you plan to attend this training, please RSVP
to Dennis Gedeon at dwgedeon@yahoo.com. This will assure there are enough
materials for everyone. If there are not enough takers on this training
class, it will be canceled. So Dennis needs to know who is planning to
join the learning experience.
Mike Bellinger, EC
Jackson
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Telpac
Node:
A TELPAC NODE IS AVAILABLE FOR GERNERAL USE SPONSORED BY THE KANSAS
CITY, MISSOURI RACES GROUP.
Callsign is w0oem-10
Freq. 145.090 simplex
1200 baud packet
It is running on a Windows XP computer using a KAM XL with a FT2800 at
50 watts to a commercial 4 bay 9db gain antenna at 156 ft. Located at
the Emergency Operations Center for the City of Kansas City,
Mo. at Independence and Woodland.
Currently connect per the instructions on the winlink.org
site
The node is welcome to all to use. If anyone needs any technical help,
they can contact
Craig Schley at ka0fsp@arrl.net
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