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Hello Team Members!
This page is meant to give you information about the Team and its
operations, give you instructions, solicit your opinions, and keep you
up to date on the latest news.
ARES®
caps, jackets, etcetera
New ARRL Policy
In keeping with ARRL policy of the past,
St. Louis County ARES®
had neither encouraged nor discouraged the wearing of
ARES®
caps, vests, jackets and such. The League, however, recently decided that
ARES®
members on deployment and at public service events should be more visible.
They have set specific standards for vests and jackets. More information and
an example can be found at http://www.arrl.org/pio/contact/2010/02/.
None of the regular clothing suppliers has a "ready made" version of these
ARES®
items yet. We will keep you informed of any change.
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Licensed amateur radio operators are invited to join the
St. Louis County ARES®
Yahoo group.
 Click to join STLARES
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Want to go? Get on the ARES®
Call Out List
St. Louis County ARES®
is preparing an initial "Call Out" list. This will
be used to notify team members that they are needed when emergencies arise.
It will work like a "phone tree", with the Emergency Coordinator notifying
people at the top of the list, each of those people notifying several more,
and so forth. The Call Out list will also be used to remind team members of
upcoming ARES®
events and perhaps even the weekly nets. This will be done
to insure that the list is up to date and works properly, and to acclimate
team members to being contacted.
We are making participation in this Call Out list voluntary to insure that
everyone contacted truly wants to be, and is ready and prepared to perform
emergency services. If you are ready to make this commitment, contact me,
Steve, the Emergency Coordinator, at kc0qmu@arrl.net. Be sure that I have
at least one reliable way to reach you during a call out.
Thank you all again for your commitment & support to ARES®.
Steve Wooten KC0QMU
Emergency Coordinator
St. Louis County ARES®
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I'd like to run the Net sometime. Where is the "net script"?
Click on the "Operations" button to the left. When the Operations
page appears, click on the "Voice Net Operations" button.
Or, just click here to go directly to
Voice Net Operations.
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What are those "special section" buttons
in the Team Members sub-menu?
You may have noticed that the bottom-most three buttons in the Team
Members sub-menu require a user ID and password to access.
They don't hide anything sinister. This is a description of what
they mean.
Members Only
This section is under construction. Eventually
ARES® members who have
committed to responding to deployments will be able to access
this section to obtain operating frequencies and such.
Planning Committee Only
The Emergency Coordinator has a team of planners and advisors
called the "Planning Committee". (Membership is open. See
About the Planning Committee and
Members of the Planning Committee
for additional information.) The Planning Committee has a
secure page where its members can post new ideas and discuss
old ones. The information is not particularly sensitive, but
it was felt that it was best to keep the discussions off of the
main Web pages since many of the ideas are rejected or go through
many revisions before being implemented.
Emergency Coordinator Only
The Emergency Coordinator keeps some of the St. Louis County
ARES® administrative files online
so that he may access them quickly no matter where he is. This section
contains storage space for these files.
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More help
- The Training Main Page lists
training opportunities. While no course is mandatory, we consider
it the duty of every ARES® Team
Member to continuously improve his/her knowledge base. We will offer
courses when we can, but you should seek out and take advantages of
training opportunities on your own. You will have to be reasonably
self-sufficient during a disaster, so consider
self-teaching early practice.
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1 - Please see the
Software
section of the Resources page if you do not
have software necessary to read these files.
© 2010 St. Louis County ARES®
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