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.
Emergency nets are not the same as chat nets
One big reason to hold regular practice emergency nets is so that the participants note and become familair with the differences between those nets and more informal nets. For example, in a chat net you might hear, "Good evening, this is the weekly Hobby Club net, sponsored by the local chapter of the Hobby Club. I'm Rudy, your net controller this evening, and I'm operating from my home QTH in the beautiful suburbs of Elmwood." During an emegency net, even a practice one, most of that dialog would have been left out. Another example of what you might hear on a chat net is an operator describing a problem he'd just had. That would immediately be followed by several minutes of other operators describing their own experiences with the same problem. During an emergency net the other operators would, hopefully, resist the urge to add their own stories. Participating in practice emergency nets will help you develop skills in brevity and accuracy.
compiled by St. Louis Metro ARES® Registered Volunteers
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Announcements
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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. Thank you.
Interested in joining ARES®?
New online application form now available! Click here to display the form on your browser. Fill in the blanks as best you can, then click the "Submit Form" button. A copy will be emailed to us.
If your prefer, you can download, print, and fill out a paper copy. Just Click here and send us the completed form via postal service. 1 1 - Please see the Software section of the Resources page if you do not have software necessary to read these files.|
What will we do in the event of a disaster?
Click here to learn about Emergency
Support Functions and the role of St. Louis Metro ARES/RACES in
emergency management plans.
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Check In
St. Louis Metro 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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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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St. Louis Metro ARES Repeaters
We maintain repeaters on -
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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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Yes, We QSL
Do you monitor St. Louis Metro
ARES® activities? Write to us
and we'll send you a QSL card.
Click here for more information.
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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 Metro 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, July 15, 2020, 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.
Office of Emergency Management
"Be Prepared" App
Android Users:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quickseries.SaintLouis
Apple IOS Users:
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/saint-louis-county-mo-prepares/id1039072120?mt=8
Android short Link:
http://bit.ly/1Kscjja
Apple IOS short Link:
http://apple.co/1or2Cr1
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