Communication Drill

Ok. So we had the drill tonight. We did, well, I don't know how we did. I am sure we did better than last time, but we still have a ways to go. We got more people and got them in half the time. Good. What I don't know is how many people tried, but weren't able to check in. To me, that will be a larger measure of how well we did. I know a couple of areas need help, but with only 6 hams trying to cover people that cover the whole county, it can be hard to arrange something.
As it is, we divided the area up into 11 zones, groups, ships, pods or whatever you want to call it. Each one has a captain. Each captain tries to come in contact with everyone in that zone. Then one of the 6 hams contacts the captain to get a report and then they report it to the other hams for record keeping. We ended up with all the Hams checking in and were able to maintain good contact between them, but only between 10% and 15% of people overall were checked in. I know of one so far that was trying, but unable to check in. We also had outside help contacting two people.
Now the task is to figure out how to arrange things so more people are covered.