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ARES Member Responsibilities

You registered with ARES now what?   To be a valuable resource you need to do

 

1.Make A commitment  - to be the best operator you can by

2.Learn to operate your equipment  - if you don't know how to operate your equipment, you value in a disaster is limited

3.Voice & Digital  - know how to operate more than one mode.   Voice is obvious, but packet and D-Star are good tools to know.

4.ARRL – Emcomm Level I  - this is a great course, and should be a part of your training as an ARES volunteer.  Yes, it costs money, but most things worth having do!

5.Practice -- check in to the nets as often as you can.   Just the act of listening to a NCS will help you during a disaster,  but suggest that the net do more than just take check-ins

6.ITU Phonetics - know these as well as you know the alphabet.  The will be used in emergency and disaster communications

7.Participate - take part in drills, community service events, training opporturnites.   If you are too busy to find the time to do this, then perhaps you are too busy for ARES.

8.Go-Kit -- build one.  There are great sites to give you ideas.

 

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Douglas County Severe WX Spotter Training

NEW LOCATION!!!
Douglas County Severe Weather Spotter Training will be held at Boys Town Music Hall on Monday, March 22, 2010 from 7:00 until 9:00 PM – The Address is 13715 Flanagan Blvd... There are two (2) Free Parking Lots to the South of the Building. Everyone should enter through the Front Doors. Parking on Flanagan Blvd. is restricted

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ARRL sends Ham Aid equipment to Haiti

Even though the communications infrastructure in earthquake-ravaged Haiti is being rebuilt, there is still need for Amateur Radio communications. To assist in this effort, the ARRL's Ham-Aid program is providing equipment for local amateurs to use.

On Friday, January 22, the League sent a programmed Yaesu VHF repeater with a microphone, as well as ICOM handheld transceivers, Yaesu mobile 2 meter rigs with power supplies and Kenwood mobile 2 meter rigs. Comet antennas, Larsen mobile antennas with magnet mounts, coax and batteries were also included in the package that was shipped to the home of the President of the Radio Club Dominicano (RCD) for distribution. All items were donated by their manufacturers.

Read more: ARRL sends Ham Aid equipment to Haiti

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Turning off WIRES

Turn Off Yaesu “Wires”!
by Madeline Lombaerde, KD6JTU
So, you bought yourself one of those nifty new Yaesu radios. With excitement you prepare to check in to a net using your new HT. What? Net Control just said “Nothing Heard”! Or, “Relay, did you get anything?”. “Nothing, but it sounds like the station has ‘Wires’ turned on. Station trying to check in, turn off wires and try again.” Again, you key up, give your call sign and ... What???? They still can’t hear me?

Some of the newer Yaesu HTs have a feature commonly known as “Wires” ... the manual may explain it under the heading of “Internet Connection Feature”. In this article, the Yaesu VX-7R and FT-60R HTs are discussed. You may have a different model, but hopefully this will help you finally turn off that blankity-blank wires feature.

Read the entire Article at:

http://k6mpn.org/training/TurnOffWires.pdf

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OMMRS STEWARD PROGRAM

As many of you know, OMMRS is a large organization with many committees and meetings. Two committees impact us, as hams, most. Those are the Communications Committee and the Communications Recruiting and Training Committee.

Communications is important in any disaster and amateur radio is a key player with the OMMRS response plan, so much so that there are more than 20 sites, spread over 7 counties that cross 2 states that have been equipped with amateur radio equipment. That is a great accomplishment and also a bit of a nightmare from an inventory and maintenance stand point. It took the Communications Recruiting and Training committee over 2 years to vsit each site and inventory and check the equipment.

So out of that was born the idea to tap the volunteers that make up the amateur radio community that serves OMMRS. And so the Stewardship Program was born.

 

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