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As many of you know, OMMRS is a large organization with many committees and meetings.
Two committees impact us, as hams, most. Those are the Communications Committee
and the Communications Recruiting and Training Committee.
Communications is important in any disaster and amateur radio is a key player
with the OMMRS response plan, so much so that there are more than 20 sites,
spread over 7 counties that cross 2 states that have been equipped with amateur
radio equipment. That is a great accomplishment and also a bit of a nightmare
from an inventory and maintenance stand point. It took the Communications Recruiting
and Training committee over 2 years to visit each site and inventory and check
the equipment.
So out of that was born the idea to tap the volunteers that make up the amateur
radio community that serves OMMRS. And so the Stewardship Program was born.
The idea is to spread the work, increase while increasing the visits and also
the site staff awareness of amateur radio. Each Steward will be assigned an
OMMRS site which are made up of
• Hospitals
• County health departments
• Poison center
• Red Cross Blood Services
to make regular visits that will
• exercise and inspect the equipment,
• make software updates,
• add and remove pages and supplies from the “site books”.
• document the storage location of the equipment
• note any additional items that are needed
• make sure that the station is ready all the time.
Each Steward will be given a contact name for their assigned OMMRS site, and
will make a mutually agreeable time for the Steward to make the inspection.
Each visit will take about an hour from set up to pack up, but might be a bit
longer or shorter depending on the location. (Some stations are up all the time,
others might need to be located)
We need your help to make this work.
Please sign up now as orientation will be held soon. Click the OMMRS Steward
link on the main menu and complete the form. If you have not signed up at an
OMMRS training meeting, please sign up using this form
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