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 …
May and Memorial Day are gone and now we are in the month of June and that means Field Day. This is a great activity to get in the field and exercise your HF skills while having a social event with other ARES members. If your group doesn’t want to get together yet, the rule …