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    EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

    Sep 01, 2019 4 minutes
    BY WALT PALMER,* W4ALT

    Regular readers of this column will remember the May 2019 edition, in which we discussed my visit to a regional ESF 8 function1 — Amateur Radio and the Medical Community — in Camden, New Jersey. One of the big take-aways for me was the concept of precision messaging.

    Using a few of the words I spotlighted in the article, I developed an exercise for my local Aux Comm group. As one of the managers of this group, we had mandated the incorporation of a short exercise on a quarterly basis. These exercises help break the normal pattern of a typical meeting and drills help keep skills sharp.

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