St. Louis County ARES® Minutes of the May 8, 2006 meeting

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Minutes of the May 8, 2006 Meeting

Prior to the meeting, a demonstration of field stations was held in the parking lot. Bruce Hemming, KC0VIF; Craig Hirsh, K0CMH; and Ed Harris, KC0UKR had set up working stations

Steve Wooten, KC0QMU, the Emergency Coordinator, presided at the monthly meeting of the St. Louis County ARES^® group on May 8, 2006.

ARES^® applications, information about the ARECC courses, and free message form pads available to anyone who wanted them. Packages of Anderson Powerpoles were available for $5.

Steve instroduced the guest speaker, Art Goodall, KC0KNU.

Art described a proposed ARES^® District C RRT (Rapid Response Team). It would be deployed anywhere in Dictrict C, or even elsewhere in Missouri or Illinois, during time of emergency.

Steve said that St. Louis County ARES^® currently had 53 members.
He reminded everyone that the Dayton Hamfest was coming up on May 19 - 21, 2006. He said that our ARES^® group would have a table at the Washington Hamfest on July 16, the St. Charles Hamfest on August 20, and the Halloween Hamfest on October 28.

Steve briefly described the group's Planning Committee and said that any of the group's members who were interested could join the Committee.

Steve said that the speakers for the upcoming meetings would be -

June: Jim Conley, N0OBG will talk about Safety
July: Craig Hish, K0CMH will talk about Antenna Construction
August: Ed Harris, KC0UKR will talk about Field Stations

Steve said that the group would be performing a repeater test on May 10, 2006. The repeater being tested is 147.210 (no tone). The test will take place immediately after the regular ARES^® net. All amateurs are invited to participate in both the regular net and the repeater test.

Steve mentioned that the group would be holding a simplex exercise on Saturday June 3, 2006.

Steve said that the St. Louis County ARES^® Web site has a "Resources page", which will have a variety of ancillary information of use to the group's members. Currently there is a repeater guide on the page, but we hope to add information on where to obtain various preparedness equipment. Steve asked anyone who had such information to forward it to him so that it could be placed on the Web site.

Gary Hoffman, KB0H, the Assistant Emergency Coordinator - Operations, said that the group now had a Field Station Team. He described the function of the Team, which is to assist group members in designing and creating their own field stations. He said that Ed Harris, KC0UKR, had accepted the position of leader of the Team.

Craig Hirsh, K0CMH, briefly described "The Day the Repeaters Died", which is the name of the simplex exercise being held on June 3, 2006.

Jim Conley, N0OBG, said that the ARECC level 3 course had recently changed and now included more information about NIMS (the National Incident Management System).

Eric Bueneman, N0UIH, recently gave a presentation at SIUE on "Ham Radio in the Cultural Landscape". He said he was asked many questions after his presentation.

Steve said that he hoped to compile a list of the local Field Day sites and make it available soon.

Jim stated that more volunteers were needed for the MS-150 Bike Tour in September.

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