{"id":13,"date":"2026-07-31T18:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.w1mv.org\/?p=13"},"modified":"2026-09-27T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:17:14","slug":"updated-1-aug-drill-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/31\/updated-1-aug-drill-document\/","title":{"rendered":"ARES mini-exercise 1 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Rob Macedo EMA ARES SEC:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The scope of this exercise is limited to essentially getting folks on the air to check into nets, test their equipment and send a few tactical messages via voice or Winlink at their discretion. Where the major winter storms\/blizzards in February precluded us from any exercises during that timeframe, we thought at least getting a mini-exercse down ahead of the remainder of severe weather and hurricane season was reasonable to do here now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bridgewater .18 repeater will be linked to the New England Echolink conference 9123 and MMRA for this exercise so we can<br>get South Shore participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phil McNamara &#8211; N1XTB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Document also posted on the EMA ARES website<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-eastern-massachusetts-arrl wp-block-embed-eastern-massachusetts-arrl\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TJHgxfmwE7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ema.arrl.org\/2026\/07\/31\/eastern-massachusetts-ares-section-mini-exercise-operation-mini-test-26-saturday-8-1-26-10-am-12-pm-et\/\">Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Mini-Exercise \u2013 Operation Mini-Test 26 \u2013 Saturday 8\/1\/26 \u2013 10 AM-12 PM ET<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cEastern Massachusetts ARES Section Mini-Exercise \u2013 Operation Mini-Test 26 \u2013 Saturday 8\/1\/26 \u2013 10 AM-12 PM ET\u201d \u2014 Eastern Massachusetts ARRL\" src=\"https:\/\/ema.arrl.org\/2026\/07\/31\/eastern-massachusetts-ares-section-mini-exercise-operation-mini-test-26-saturday-8-1-26-10-am-12-pm-et\/embed\/#?secret=xkyljzfT8g#?secret=TJHgxfmwE7\" data-secret=\"TJHgxfmwE7\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Rob Macedo EMA ARES SEC: &#8220;The scope of this exercise is limited to essentially getting folks on the air to check into nets, test their equipment and send a few tactical messages via voice or Winlink at their discretion. Where the major winter storms\/blizzards in February precluded us from any exercises during that timeframe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}