Boone County Amateur Radio Emergency Services (BCARES) responded to an exercise RAVE Emergency Alert that was issued from the Boone County Office of Emergency Management (OEM).

Radio operators were dispatched in groups of two or three to seven Red Cross Shelters and community sites throughout Boone and Audrain counties where the American Red Cross volunteers were waiting for them with simulated data and messages to be transmitted to the EOC via Winlink and our EOC station.

The exercise successfully demonstrate that we can deliver messages via the Winlink system to any location of interest with a Winlink account or voiced relay if Winlink is not available, as with the NWS office in St Louis.

The annual SET exercise was well received by both the Red Cross participants and the Office of Emergency Management
for Boone County Missouri.

For complete details on the exercise click on the link below.