District D Simulated Emergency Test

Saturday January 13th 2024 at 10:00 am we will be having a simulated emergency test involving as many MO ARES District D counties that want to be involved,  This will be a directed net for the SET , we will simulate as real as possible scenarios, we will be using the SMLRS , N0NWS  , …

Missouri Section September 2023 Activity Report

It seems like the season has finally figured out what the correct temperatures should be. Saturday, October 7th was a beautiful day for the official time for the annual Simulated Emergency Test ( SET). St. Charles County ARES held their exercise “Operation Aware”. The purpose of the exercise was to test passing of tactical traffic …

Missouri Section August 2023 Activity Report

September is fast approaching and that means it’s Simulated Emergency Test time. Each of our ARES groups should formulate and hold a simulated exercise. This is an important annual event to test our capabilities with communications outside of our usual shacks. Cole County has submitted examples of their 2022 SET Handbook and After Action Report. …

Missouri Section July 2023 Activity Report

Severe weather continues to happen in Missouri with many severe thunderstorms and some tornados this month. Skywarn® operations this month reported a total of 44 operations with 494.3 hours of service spotting the weather for our neighbors. Skywarn ops combined with all of our other reported activities for July resulted in a total of 209 …