Bernalillo County ARES
Bernalillo County Amateur Radio Service (BCARES) is dedicated to providing auxiliary emergency communications service to the Bernalillo County Department of Emergency Management.
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In The News
Ojo de Los Casos Fire Burning Near Dog Head Fire Scar
July 9, 2020 Update
Location: Manzano Mountains Cause: Unknown Percent Contained: 0 % Date Reported: 7/8/2020 Size: ~90 acres Fuel: Ponderosa pine, Slash
Resources assigned: 1 Type 3 Incident Management Team, 4 Interagency Hotshot Crews, multiple Engines, 1 Air Attack, multiple Helicopters and Airtankers, and various support personnel from the Cibola and cooperating agencies.
Mountainair, NM – For Immediate Release – The Ojo de los Casos Fire started on the Mountainair Ranger District of the Cibola National Forest on Wednesday July 8, 2020 around 6:00 pm. It is located in Torrance County, roughly 7 miles southwest of the village of Chilili. Firefighters quickly responded with air support (water, fire retardant). With a slow in fire activity, ground resources were able to work through the night to construct fire line. As of this morning, the fire had reached an estimated 90 acres. The eastern spread slowed considerably as the fire reached the burn scar from the 2016 Dog Head Fire.
No evacuations or official closures have been issued at this time, however local residents are advised to be prepared. The Forest Service and New Mexico State Forestry are working together to suppress this fire that is currently burning on both Forest Service and private land.
Safety: Safety of the public and firefighters is always the top priority in wildland fire operations. Ojo de Los Casos Fire operations include best management practices to prevent the spread of COVID-19 within firefighter crews/operations and within the general public.
No Drone Zone: The public is reminded to avoid the use of unmanned aerial systems (drones) near wildfires. If drones are illegally flown over a fire, air operations could be suspended. When this happens, fire crews lose a valuable resource, which can adversely affect the safety and efficiency of the overall firefighting effort. Law enforcement can take action against a private citizen or commercial business illegally flying drones over a wildfire. For more information on drones, see https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/fire/uas/if-you-fly, and Know Before You Fly!
Smoke: Smoke may be visible from I-25, and throughout the East Mountains and Estancia valley. Smoke will be monitored to assess potential health impacts, and the Forest Service will coordinate with the New Mexico Department of Transportation and the New Mexico Environment Department and Department of Health to issue any needed alerts. Additional information can be found at http://nmtracking.org/fire.
Closures: A 5-mile temporary flight restriction is in place over the fire for the safety of aviation and ground resources. The fire area will be temporarily closed to fuelwood harvest for firefighter and public safety.
Ojo de Los Casos Fire Information: 505-369-6521
2020.ojodeloscasos@firenet.gov
Inciweb: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6837/
New Mexico Fire Information: www.nmfireinfo.com
Facebook: Cibola National Forest & National Grasslands (@cibolanf) https://www.facebook.com/cibolanf/ Twitter: Cibola NF&Grasslands; (@Cibola_NF) https://twitter.com/cibola_nf?lang=en
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Updated FEMA Courses
I noticed that FEMA released an updated course IS-800 . d on 5/6/2020. So, the current versions of the courses our members need to take are:
IS-100.c (6/25/2018),
IS-200.c (3/11/2019),
IS-700.b (6/25/2018), and
IS-800.d (5/6/2020)
It is important that all of us take the latest versions of these four courses as there have been some significant changes.
Note that there is still no IS-802 course available. After I take the updated IS-800.d course, it may become clear why this is so and whether the ESF-2 COMU concept is still valid within the National Response Framework. I'll fill you in if I come to any conclusions.
73,
Ron Reder, NM5AA
Emergency Coordinator
Sandoval County ARES
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BCARES Team Members
The next BCARES Team meeting will be an Over-the-Air Roundtable Meeting on June 3, 2020, starting at 6:30 PM. You can participate by connecting to your nearest BCARES repeater*.
145.130 (- 600 KHz, 100 Hz PL Tone)
145.150 (- 600 KHz, 100 HZ PL Tone)
442.050 (+ 5.0 MHz, 100 Hz PL Tone)
* This is a linked repeater network
The BCARES meeting host will call for check-ins and then do a roundtable inquiry of each check-in to determine if you have any announcements, information, comments, or questions for the team. If at any time you have input during the OTA roundtable state "CONTACT" and your CALL SIGN and the host will acknowledge you.
Hope to hear you on the OTA roundtable
73
Jim Frazier, KC5RUO
BCARES EC
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There are TWO new RMS Gateways, in ABQ
Gateway #1: KC5QOC-10, GRID: DM65QD, Near Edith NE ABQ.
Gateway #2: N0MTH-10, DM65 QC, in Knobhill area kinda close to I-25 and I-40.
Peter and his wife Janelle moved here recently from St Louis. Pete doesn't have his antennas up yet so the RMS Gateway is running off of a rubber duckie antenna. Try to connect through SCREST. Jim, KC5RUO, sent and received a couple emails using this RMS Gateway.
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There is a relatively new Sandoval County ARES (SCARES) repeater at INTEL, Rio Rancho, you may be interested in programming into your radios.
Receive Frequency: 444.70 MHz
Transmit Frequency: 449.70 MHz
Offset: 5.0 MHz
Offset Direction: PLUS
Name: INTEL
Tone Mode: Tone
CTCSS: 100 Hz
Rx CTCSS: CSQ
Comment: Linked to SCARES Repeater Network
73,
Jim Frazier, KC5RUO
BCARES Emergency Coordinator
The 145.13 MHz Repeater Information as of 5/23/2019
Input Frequency: 144.53 MHz, PL Tone = 100 Hz
Output Frequency: 145.13 MHz
Location: Fire Station 35, along Paseo del Norte, NE Albuquerque, near the intersection of Lowell and Paseo del Norte
11700 Paseo del Norte NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122
The 145.15 MHz Cedro Peak Repeater Information as of 5/23/2019
Input Frequency: 144.55 MHz, PL Tone = 100 Hz
Output Frequency: 145.15 MHz
Location: Cedro Peak, Tijeras, New Mexico
The 442.05 MHz Repeater Information as of 5/23/2019
Input Frequency: 447.05 MHz, PL Tone = 100 Hz
Output Frequency: 442.05 MHz
Location: 1120 Coors Blvd SW, Albuquerque
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BCARES Packet Radio Practice Net Announcement
You are invited to participate in the BCARES packet radio practice net, every third Tuesday of the month at 7 PM. The first one will be held on Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 at 1900 local. The net will be initiated by way of voice on the Bernalillo County Amateur Radio Emergency Service repeater system (145.13, 145.15, and 442.05 MHz) with Bill Tucker, K5WRT, as Net Control. He'll provide instructions on how the packet net will be conducted and then we will transition over to 145.01 MHz for the packet net.
The packet radio net will be a directed net with K5WRT as Net Control. Net members will be polled sequentially to exercise the message exchange. Net Control will establish a connection with you via the SCREST digipeater. In these packet radio practice nets we’ll focus on three of the Packet Radio Modes: RMS Simple Terminal mode keyboard-to-keyboard, RMS Simple Terminal mailbox message exchanges, and Winlink Peer-to-Peer email exchanges to include passing the ICS-213 General Message Form. Be prepared to provide Net Control your SSID and PBBS SSID during the net opening session.
Hope to hear you on the net!
73
Jim Frazier BCARES EC
