The month of June continued to be a active radio month in Missouri. Hours posted for Field Day lead the list followed by training ops and SkyWarn nets. Field Day was a hot one this year with temps in the high 90s. I hope everyone had a fun and interesting Field Day. The next big activity for ARES is the Simulated Emergency Test in October. Start planning now for you group’s SET. Bill McFarland’s (N0AXZ) SET report for Boone County ARES made the July issue of QST in the SET report pages.
District News:
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. – NL ARES Meeting on NTS-Radiogram support info. The relationship between the National Traffic System and associated forms utilized during Training operations and Real Time Events. The ICS 213 form was explained in detail. The ARRL Radiogram purpose and the timing of the use of this form was reviewed with details to fill the required information. The evening of June 13 another line of storms approached the Northland. As the line developed around 9:30 PM to a level that required activation. A WX net was opened at 9:43 PM, for the next two hours Intense lighting associated with the storm that produced gust fronts reaching 60 MPH. At the peak of storm reports of Nickel size hail Northwest of Smithville. The storm continued to move east out of the Platte/Clay counties. NCS, after Roll call closed the operation at 11:53 PM.
District B: Dale Bagley, K0KY, DEC
- Excellent turn out at Field Day Exercises. Adair County had a nice field day.
District F: J.D. Simmons, WA0BER, DEC
- Boone, Callaway and Cole County reported they set up Field Day operations.
District H:
- Grundy & Livingston Cos. – FD at Crowder Park, Trenton. Four participants in the 24 hour event including operators from Grundy, Livingston, and Daviess Co. 4 ARES members operated 2A for the entire 24 hr period.
The following is the statistics for the Missouri Section June Activity Report:
| MISSOURI ARES SECTION REPORT FOR : | Jun-2024 | MONTH | YEAR | ||||||||
| DISTRICT | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | TOTALS | |
| Total Counties | 13 | 16 | 12 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 115 | |
| Total Reporting | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 34 | |
| Members | 343 | 113 | 139 | 98 | 26 | 136 | 33 | 12 | 2 | 902 | |
| Plus / Minus | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| ARES Nets | 37 | 4 | 22 | 47 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 147 | 994 |
| NTS Liaison | 23 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 358 |
| Training Ops | 32 | 22 | 3 | 34 | 18 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 142 | 826 |
| Svc Hours | 430 | 374 | 180 | 108 | 81 | 468 | 105 | 2 | 10 | 1757 | 7641 |
| Exercise Ops | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 60 |
| Svc Hours | 0 | 0 | 18 | 28 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 0 | 191 | 501 |
| Public Svc Ops | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 24 |
| Svc Hours | 0 | 0 | 80 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 428 |
| Emergency Ops | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Svc Hours | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Skywarn Ops | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 188 |
| Svc Hours | 62 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 28 | 5 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 133 | 1783 |
| Total Operations | 36 | 23 | 6 | 49 | 22 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 178 | 1099 |
| Total Svc Hours | 492 | 377 | 278 | 158 | 130 | 473 | 131 | 126 | 11 | 2174 | 10354 |
73,
Jeff KB3HF
Missouri SEC