SIMULATED EMERGENCY TEST (SET) – 2024

Test Your Readiness on October 5 – 6

ARRL’s Simulated Emergency Test (SET) is October 5 – 6, 2024, and this nationwide exercise is the chance to test your personal emergency-operating skills and the readiness of your communications equipment and accessories in a simulated emergency-like deployment.

Fairfield County ARES will conduct a Simulated Emergency Test (SET) on Saturday, October 5, at 7pm., on frequency 146.70MHz with a PL Tone of 94.8 Hz. The Scenario for the Fairfield County ARES SET will be a high wind severe weather event, impacting each participating amateur radio operator’s specific location.

All Licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to participate in this exercise.

During the SET, each participating operator will be asked to Report out to NET Control, the following conditions in their area:

• Large Branches down
• Uprooted tress
• Damage to buildings/cars
• Power poles down
• Power Outages
• Impassible roadways
• Disabled vehicles
• Flooding in buildings, creeks, or riverbeds

Be creative and report out on damage you are most likely to see in your area/location.

In addition, please remember that station readiness and personal training and practice are tenets of the Amateur Radio Service. Any time we spend on the air will contribute to developing and practicing our personal radio communication capability.

For more information on the SET, please read the Simulated Emergency Test Guidelines at:
www.arrl.org/simulated-emergency-test