November and Thanksgiving are now past and the Christmas / New Years holidays are fast approaching. I hope everyone has had a good year and is looking forward to 2025. Activity still remains busy in the Section with 1322 hours of volunteer time. County reporting is down some this year and I hope we can provide additional reports from the counties that have been reporting. Please report even if there was no activity during the month some we can at least have an accurate count of ARES members in the Section. Some have asked about counting net time on the reports. Please report the number of nets held under the nets category. For the time spent on the air during the nets, take the number of check-ins times the time length of the net and report that time under the training category of the EC report.
District News & Comments
District A: Richard Fretwell, W0KRF, DEC
- Benton Co. – BC ARES Members participated in the following nets: MTN, MESN, ARES, Region A Healthcare, and various club nets.
- Clay/Platte Cos. – As 2024 comes to an end, plans for training opportunities for the new year were discussed. The list will be reviewed and presented at the January meeting. December will be a Social gathering at Golden Corral 8800 N Skyview Wednesday December 11, 2024 5:30 PM – onward. Current FSQ on air training is available for operators to test equipment along with working with FLdigi-FSQ & FSQcall software to interact with operators that are using the system. The 2M VHF frequency, 145.680 FM simplex is desiginated for testing. Currently two Northland EOC’s are in operation. A number of stations are listed in the HEARD lists. A Random Roll Call “RRC” is conducted each day to interact with stations. The results of the “RRC” are posted for participating stations to confirm operations.
MESN Report – MESN monthly net report for November: Sessions-4 / QNI-105 / QTC-4. KF4MXF Linda Lathrop NC for MESN
The following is the summary of the time donated by the Section volunteers for the month of November and the total year to date. We had 33 out of 62 ECs reporting.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all,
Jeff KB3HF
Missouri SEC