Creve Coeur House 1

	* Present at the Location
	* Bob Gale, WA4GDX
	* Roy Tribble, K0TRB
	* Ed Dewhirst, KD0LNT

	* Battalion Chief George had received a Journal Entry for the exercise as 
follows: "St. Louis County Amateur Radio Emergency Services Group will be at 
House One to set up for a drill.  They will be in the Safety Room off of the 
lobby from 1000 until 1700 Give them any assistance they need."  The Safety Room 
would have required blocking two doors open to run coax out the front door of 
the fire house.  He was more than happy to accomodate us in the Fire House 
Operations area.  All went well with the use of the Fire House.
	* Set up of radios went well.  All antennas were ground mounted, see attached 
photos, one with radials on the ground and the other on a trash can lid.  Worked 
well for repeaters but a push up pole could have been velcroed to the pipe 
ballards and gicen us some height for simplex operation.
	* We had two radios set up along with three portables.  I discovered when we 
were asked to QSY to a different repeater that we need to either hold a class or 
request that our members learn to enter not only the repeater frequency but the 
PL tone into their VFO.  Too many people rely on preprogramming repeaters into 
their memories and have difficulties manually entering the information into the 
VFO.  It also appears that some do not understand how PL tones work.
	* During simplex test at the end, it would have been better to conduct it one 
location at a time with locations switching back to the net control on the 
repeater in between tests
I have some other ideas that I will bring to the November Planning Committee 
meeting.
 
Bob Gale, WA4GDX
AEC St. Louis County ARES