Coming on October 23rd, ARES is conducting a statewide communications exercise. It’s purpose is to test our ability to communicate with each other around the state. County ARES groups were contacted and we have 20 counties and SEMA signed up to participate. Due to the amount of work and timing, the request for participants is …
SEC – Jeff Young KB3HF August has ended and we are about to enter the fall of the year which means the Simulated Emergency Test season is coming. Hopefully, your local ARES group is planning a SET to exercise your skills and improve your EmComm skills. The SET doesn’t have to be elaborate. It could …
For those you have not heard, Paul Gilbert has resigned his position as Director of Emergency Management at Headquarters. This leaves ARES without an overall leader for EmComm and ARES. Ken Bailey is picking up the ARES support for now. There has been a change again in the way that SECs are to report their …
Field Day 2021 has now gone and from the activity on the bands, it seems like it was a busy time for a lot of groups. Our ARES group in St. Charles County participated as a distributed group. I hope everyone had as good of a time on the air as I did. FT8 and …