WICEN-WA Emergency Communications Plan

DRAFT ONLY

This Plan is currently only a DRAFT and has not been accepted or implemented by WICEN WA. It is largely incomplete.

This document describes the communications architecture used by WICENWA during emergency operations.

The plan follows the PACE model:

Primary
Alternate
Contingency
Emergency

Each layer assumes the previous layer has failed.

This document covers:

• Activation procedures
• Operational communications
• Radio frequency plans
• Message handling
• Incident information distribution
• Cross-state coordination
• Training
• HF Propagation Plan
• Deployment Model
• Activation Flowchart
• Digital Messaging Architecture