Missouri has 114 counties plus the City of St. Louis for a total of 115 potential ARES groups.   As of my last count, Missouri has 14,236 hams listed in the call sign database.  Of course not all the hams listed are active and some may unfortunately be SK’s.

We currently have Emergency Coordinators in 59 locations, which means that we have potential openings  for 56 new ARES groups.   At first glance, it may seem like we are way short of having the entire state covered but in many cases we have counties that only have 2 hams or even up to 10 or 12.  Very hard to create an active ARES group without any hams to be involved.    Any then we also have counties with over 200 hams without an ARES group – A great potential for someone to get involved and start a ARES group.

If you are interested — Please feel free to contact me for additional information

Email    w0krb@yahoo.com

Phone    417-886-7137

Ken Baremore   W0KRB    Section Emergency Coordinator  ARES – Missouri Section