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Santa Clara County ARES®/RACES

Level 3 -- Staging Notice

What are the conditions?
A city dispatches city HAMs as RACES responders, or a City or agency notifies Santa Clara County OES that there may be a need for RACES mutual aid.
What will be the notification?
A STAGING Notification message will be placed on the SCCo ARES/RACES web site (www.scc-ares-races.org) giving information about the situation as it develops. An email containing this notification will be sent to the EC e-mail group, and to the Santa Clara County MAC email group. If ARES/RACES hams have entered their contact information into the AlertSCC portion of the data bases they will be notified. This STAGING notification will be announced every half-hour on the 146.115 repeater (AA6BT), which may be linked to other Resource Net repeaters.
What response is expected?
Santa Clara County ARES/RACES Mutual Aid Communicators (MACs) are to prepare to be able to respond within fifteen minutes of notification of RACES activation. MACs should contact their city ECs to announce their availability, obtain approval for their response, and have their equipment and vehicle ready and their radios programmed. Announcements will be made on the 146.115 repeater (AA6BT), which may be linked to other Resource Net repeaters, at 15-minute intervals updating information as it becomes available. NOTE: No MAC responder is to do ANY traveling in response to this notification until an actual Santa Clara County RACES activation announcement is made and the MAC is given a specific assignment and an activation number by the Resource Net Control.