St. Louis County ARES® Minutes of the December 20, 2004 meeting

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Minutes of the December 20, 2004 Meeting

Steve Wooten, KC0QMU, the Emergency Coordinator, presided over the monthly St. Louis County ARES^® meeting held on December 20, 2004.

Steve passed out a calendar of events taking place in 2005. There being new people attending, he had everyone introduce themselves.

Steve said that he would like to see more announcements promoting ARES^® made on other nets during 2005.

John, N0UFB, suggested putting up a notice at Winterfest listing all members of ARES^® and saying, "If you are not on this list, we do not have your application." This idea was later changed so that the list would be posted on the Web site.

Steve asked that everyone make sure his/her contact information was up to date, especially email addresses.

Someone asked how ARES^® was funded. Steve replied that it was funded by donations and by sales made at hamfests. At that point one attendee made a cash donation and another donated a handheld radio.

Steve said that a St. Louis County ARES^® Operations Manual was in the works and that portions of it would be available on the Web site.

Gary, KB0H, suggested possible events that the group might hold, including -

a message handling event
a multi-county call out
a problem solving event
an AREC Course

Max, K0AZV, and Gary, KB0H, both brought up the idea of having an ARES^® table at local community events. Steve said he had already looked into it and found that such tables cost a fair amount of money.

John gave away a field antenna mast stand.

Kurt, KB0ZNJ, asked why there were separate City and County ARES^® organizations. (Answer: The distribution of ARES^® organizations through the state was decided at the Missouri Section level, which decided to go by counties. Since St. Louis City is not within St. Louis County, it was assigned its own ARES^® group.) He also asked who is supposed to take responsibility for contacting whom in an emergency. (Answer: There will be a call-out list.)

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