Recently your ARES AECs met and a great deal of planning was done for the next several weeks. We talked over operations procedures for SKYWARN and disaster situations, comparing and noting differences in the two. This resulted in our planning for upcoming nets and refinement of our face to face meetings. We have several operators working in the digital arena now, and we need to continue to practice with the operational aspects of ARES.

Topics of upcoming Nets-

March 10^th – Messages are what we communicate, and are our reason to “be there” when all else fails.

March 24^th – Non-SKYWARN activations, what to do, how we are to operate & where to go.

April 14^th – Simplex relaying and messaging.

April 28^th – We will conduct a Missing person Drill and possible deployment.

Now for the face to face events –

March 26^th – Review of Local Net operations, Practices for SKYWARN and Disaster response.

May 28^th – Our topic will be HF operations and Nets. Bring your questions- How do I…?

And then some real Ham radio fun.

**** JUNE 15^th SPECIAL DRILL Scout CERT graduation and ARES exercise. This will be held at Camp James Ray out near Locust on a Saturday from 8 am till about 1pm.

As you can see we had a productive evening with lots of ideas, and I hope you will find this upcoming work interesting, fun and useful. Check the calendar here on the website to get actual times and locations.

Thanks for your interest in making ARES a great service to our communities.

73
Rick
K5ECX