The Maine 2021 Simulated Emergency Test or SET is scheduled for Saturday, October 9th from 0800 to 1200 EDT, during which amateur radio operators will be demonstrating the effectiveness of their capabilities to send formal traffic across the state. This traffic will exercise the Maine Packet Network (MEPN) nodes, their ability to route BBS mail throughout the system, and their ability to gateway Winlink RMS messages to NTS traffic coordinators.
From the exercise plan:
Exercise Mission Statement
The purpose of the disaster exercise is to test and evaluate emergency communications and its support during a long-term, region-wide power outage caused by a solar geomagnetic
disturbance.
Exercise Objectives
- Demonstrate the ability to operate during a total regional grid failure emergency.
- Demonstrate the ability to utilize EMA networks to communicate between the State and County EOCs.
- Test County EMA radio repeaters and simplex channels
- Test the Statewide RegionNet repeaters
- Test the ability to utilize SHARES to relay messages.
- Demonstrate the ability to utilize Ham Radio capabilities to communicate between the counties and amateur radio operators.
- Test amateur radio communications between counties and operators on 80m, 40m, 2m, 6m and 70 cm simplex voice.
- Test the ability to successfully transmit and relay Radiograms by VHF or HF including voice and Winlink.
- Test the ability to retrieve web files via Winlink
- Test the ability to use the Winlink System and Packet Network to relay messages.
For more information
See a copy of the plan hosted by the Wireless Society of Southern Maine at: http://www.ws1sm.com/Forms/2021_SET_Plan.pdf
If you are interested in participating, reach out to your local amateur radio club or emergency communications team.
