I have nothing too major to report… my dual band handheld still travels with me in my backpack, but I’m now in school three nights a week. So between work, being in class, doing homework, and my other part time job, I haven’t had much time to devote to fiddling with radios. There also hasn’t been much weather worth going to to see lately, so I haven’t done any storm chasing.

I did participate in a Dane County exercise in August, which was interesting mainly because it was my first operational exposure to ICS.
Exercises are actually very interesting… I hesitate to say “fun”, because emergency response isn’t something that’s supposed to be “fun”. It did feel good to step into a situation where something fairly major was happening, but everyone knew their roles and things gelled pretty quickly. Let’s call it a good working environment.

And with that, I have homework yet to do today, and I’m headed to work this afternoon. But yes, I’m still around.

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