The Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) provides emergency communications to "Served Agencies" such as fire and police departments, the American Red Cross, the National Weather Service, hospitals, and others. Many ARES® teams also provide communications for public service events such as marathons, parades, bike riding events, and boat races. Individual ARES® teams are organized at the county level in Missouri. This is the Web site of the ARES® team serving St. Louis City and County, Missouri.
The Amateur Radio Emergency Service® is a program of the American Radio Relay League. "ARES" and "Amateur Radio Emergency Service" are registered marks of and are used on this Web site by permission of the American Radio Relay League.
Try to give a simple answer
During an emergency net, either real or practice, if you are asked a question, do your best to give a short, simple answer. Try not to add a lot of qualifiers or exceptions. When asked for a simple "yes" or "no", if you can't answer, your only other response should be, "I don't know".
More hints, tips, and other tidbits about emergency communications
compiled by St. Louis Metro ARES® Registered Volunteers
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New ARES Packet Procedures |
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St. Louis Metro ARES meeting
Monday February 9, 2015 7:30 PM The next St. Louis Metro ARES/RACES meeting will take place on Monday February 9, 2015. It will be held at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital and start at 7:30 PM. Bob Gale, WA4GDX, will talk about the County-Wide simplex exercise scheduled to take place on Saturday Februart 21st. |
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County-Wide Simplex Exercise
Saturday February 21, 2015 9:00 AM until 10:00 AM 
St. Louis Metro ARES will conduct a City and County-wide simplex exercise on Saturday morning, February 21, 2015. The exercise will start at 9:00 am and run until 10:00 AM. All amateur radio operators are welcome to participate. The frequencies we will use are:
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Net Controllers needed!
The weekly practice message net has only two net control operators. If you'd like the opportunity to learn more and actually send messages, even just one time, please contact Gary Hoffman, KB0H.
Interested in joining ARES®?
- ARES® application in "Word" document format1
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ARES®
application in Adobe Acrobat "PDF" format1
You can make entries directly on this PDF form before printing it. (** Not all versions of Adobe Acrobat can display this form **) -
ARES®
application in Adobe Acrobat "PDF" format1
Older PDF form that does not allow you to make direct entries
Or, if you prefer, write or email us and request a physical application form.
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Check In
St. Louis County ARES®
holds a 2 meter net every week (see date and time listed
below). All amateur radio operators are welcome to participate.
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Yes, We QSL
Do you monitor St. Louis County
ARES® activities? Write to us
and we'll send you a QSL card.
Click here for more information.
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Net Control
Run the show! We will teach you what you need to know. We'll
give you the opportunity to control a net and help you if
you have difficulties. See out
Voice Net Operations page.
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Emergency Communications Information
Not sure where to begin?
Contact us and we will help you get started.
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Presentations
If you haven't been to our monthly meetings you've missed talks
and demonstrations on Go-Bags, Message Handling, the Missouri
Emergency Packet Network, DC Power and much more.
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Help Is Available
Do you need help building a go-bag? Are you unsure about what
to use for emergency power? Would you like some information
about personal preparedness? We can help.
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Share Your Expertise
Do you have emergency communications experience or knowledge that
you'd like to share with others? Do you have some other skill
or talent that could benefit the group? We'd be happy to hear from you.
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ARES® Wallpaper
Would you like St. Louis County
ARES® as your
wallpaper?
Click here
to display our 1280 x 1024 poster then save it to your computer.
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Next Meeting
The date and location of our next monthly meeting can be
found on the
Calendar of Events page, along
with directions how to get there.
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Field Exercises
Join us in our field exercises and develop your skills. Find out
what things you do well and which areas you could improve. Help
us to create a robust response team.
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Yahoo Group
 Click to join STLARES Licensed amateur radio operators are invited to join the St. Louis County ARES® Yahoo group. |
Donations
Yes, we accept donations of stamps, cash, items to sell or
raffle, items that we can distribute to our volunteers,
and so forth.
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- Weekly 2 meter voice nets:
The weekly ARES® 2 meter voice net operates on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 PM Central Time. The net is on the W0SRC repeater, frequency 146.850 (-) MHz, tone 141.3 Hz. All amateur operators are invited to participate. Next net is Wednesday, Feburary 4, 2015, 7:30 PM Immediately following the regular voice net is the weekly ARES® practice message / traffic net. A test message is read over the air to give you an opportunity to practice copying down formal traffic. - 2 meter packet mailbox/BBS:
St. Louis Metro ARES® maintains a 2 meter packet mailbox/BBS. This packet system is a training tool and runs 24/7 for your convenience. Please go to our Packet Radio page for information and instructions. If you have packet radio capabilities you are enouraged to sign in on a weekly basis.
All amateur radio operators are welcome to participate.
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