TRAINING

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RACES drills may be conducted a maximum of 1 hour per week and must clearly be identified as such (FCC Regulation 97.407).

Encourage all amateur operators to take a turn at being a Net Control Station for one of the Horry County repeaters. This offers excellent experience in the practice of proper radio procedure protocol.

Schedule exercises that provide all emergency operators and others wishing to participate, the opportunity to set up at or near an emergency site and test the quality and strength of signal. Tests should be scheduled at least 3 times per year.

After each test, a critique of the overall test with all participants will be held. This is to provide the operators opportunity for feed-back and for the entire emergency organization to assess its strengths and areas for improvement.

At least for testing purposes, rotate operators into different locations so that they may become familiar with the different sites and improve their effectiveness in the event they would have to operate at these sites.

Run operator training sessions with appropriate ARRL training materials.

Plan and run partner radio training sessions where each partner is provided the opportunity to learn how to operate a radio make and model that is different from their personal radio(s).

Be sure to train operators on how to operate the radios that are located at the Emergency Operations Centers.

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