Mother Nature continues to pound Missouri with severr weather. Many tornados dropped down and casued major damage. St. Louis City & County had approximately 5000 structures damaged or destroyed. The Section reported 295 hours of Skywarn activity and 37 hours of emergency operations. Hopefully, the weather will calm down and give the state a break.
June is Field Day month and I hope your groups are planning for a great training exercise. Please report your FD hours as training in the June reports.
Don’t forget that sending the SM or SEC a message from your Field Day site via RF counts as 100 bonus points for the message. Both Cecil and I have Winlink emails, so practice your Winlink skills and send one of us a message. Cecil is AC0HA and I am KB3HF. This message is easy points to add to your FD report. I hope eveyone has a great FD experience.
District News & Comments:
District A: Richard Fretwell, K0KRF, DEC
- Benton Co. – BC ARES Members participated in the following nets: MTN, MESN, ARES, Region A Healthcare, and various club nets.
- Cass Co. – Attended the Cass county emergency meeting. Planning for 5 races this year with maps and volunteers.
- Clay/Platte Cos. – MAY 2025 NL ARES monthly meeting activity: The Weather event May 19, Tornado Watch 294, which produced a number of tornados in the surrounding KC Metro counties. ARES members reviewed the data collected from NWS Slack inputs, this along with the NCM log 14758 to determine more effective reporting methods during future events.
- Jackson Co – Jackson County ARES conducted a deployment exercise to test capabilities in various areas of the county.
District F: J.D. Simmons, WA0BER, DEC
- Camden Co. – Increased participation from local Hams with the Skywarn training nets has increased with the upgrade of the 146.955 ARES/Skywarn repeater. The repeater is linked now with 12 other repeaters all over SW Missouri and SE Kansas.
The following is the activities and volunteer hours reported for the month of May in the Missouri Section. 39 ECs reported out of 60 and all 7 DECs reported.
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Jeff KB3HF
Missouri Section EC