[CQ] Elmer day for some midwives?

[Michael Shiloh]

somehow i completely missed noting the time and place of this. what
are the details?

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
> Just a quick reminder that this elmer day is tomorrow.
> I'm planning on making it over, driving from the Mission.
> Hope to see people there, and thanks again to Art for bringing it to my/our
> attention!
> --
> /jbm KJ6ANM
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Art Peel <artpeel at glowingthings.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.sfarc.org/sfarnews.htm might be what you're looking for
>> -- Art
>> KJ6ANT
>>
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2011, at 20:40, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
>>
>> tl;dr: Please help teach some ticketed midwives how to use their HTs to
>> coordinate in case of disaster.  Ping me if you want to be involved, and
>> we'll coordinate off-list.
>> We had our baby at home, with a midwife.  Things went great, etc, but they
>> need to have two midwives at every birth: if something goes wrong with both
>> mom and the baby... ugly triage situation.  Of course, births aren't exactly
>> planned, so they need to do a lot of ad-hoc coordination.  These women still
>> carry pagers, because They Will Work.
>> Except when they don't.  Babies will be born after big earthquakes, when
>> it's hard to get around town to ensure you have two midwives on hand.  And
>> the hospitals will likely be packed, so they consider this situation
>> particularly important. Many of them have their tickets, and little HTs, but
>> they're not confident using them.  They just don't know how to work
>> repeaters, what process/protocol is for using the radios, etc.  Our midwife
>> specifically asked if I could "be their Elmer."  So they're not totally out
>> of the loop.  Naomi bumped into another midwife at a cafe, who asked about
>> the Elmer day.
>> I'd love to do this for them, but, honestly, I'm not confident enough.  It
>> seems like this is Important, and I should ask for help from real Elmers.
>>  Would anyone here be willing to help run a small Elmer session?
>> Alternately, what's the right organization in town to ask about this?
>>  AERO?  Red Cross?
>> Thanks so much, this is one of those things that amateur radio exists for!
>> 73 KJ6ANM,
>> --
>> /jbm
>>
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