CALLING ALL INSTRUCTORS!!

CALLING ALL INSTRUCTORS!!  I am looking for instructors to help teach the following topics at the first ever ARES Training Camp in the Ohio Section!

 

SITE 1 - Near Vertical Incidence Skywave (NVIS)

SITE 2 - Towers and Safety

SITE 3 - Generator Safety

SITE 4 - Wire Antennas No Trees

SITE 5 - Teamwork Exercise

SITE 6 - Digital Comms in the Field

SITE 7 - Portable Repeaters

SITE 8 - Emergency Power

 

These topics are not etched in stone but relative to what we're hoping to accomplish at camp.  If you are willing to teach any of the topics listed above or you're willing to teach a related topic, please contact me directly at w8dec2(at)gmail.com.  I am beginning to put my staff roster together.

ARES Training Camp will be held at Camp Falling Rock in Newark, Ohio on September 12, 13, and 14.  Online participant registration is expected to open sometime mid-August.

ARES FORUM AT 2014 DAYTON HAMVENTION

Greetings!  The ARES Forum at the 2014 Dayton Hamvention is confirmed for Sunday, May 18th from 10:30AM in Room 3.  I am pleased to announce this year's presenter will be ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey KI1U.  His presentation topic will be The Served Community - A whole community approach to Amateur Radio public service.
This forum is for all past, present, and future amateur radio volunteers interested in emergency, disaster, public service, and digital communications.  All are welcome regardless of ARRL membership, club membership, or license class.  This forum is usually "standing room only" so please come early.

For those who would like to meet & greet me, I will be at the ARRL Field Service Organization booth on Friday from 10AM to 11AM and on Saturday from 11AM to 1PM.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to seeing you at the 2014 Dayton Hamvention.

ARES FORUM AT TOLEDO HAMFEST

There will be an ARES Forum at the Toledo Hamfest at 10AM on Sunday, March 16th at Owens Community College in Perrysburg, OH.  This forum is for all past, present, and future ARES volunteers.  This forum will be especially important because details will be announced from the Ohio Section ARES Leadership meeting.

FIVE WATER STORAGE TIPS

I am not a prepper but this is great information.

http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/2014/02/water-storage-tips.html

OHIO HF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS NET

The Ohio HF Emergency Preparedness Net is conducted every Tuesday at 7PM local time on 3850 kHz (+/-) for QRM.  You may have to move up or down the band if you do not hear them near that frequency.

Please note the Net Control Station transmits from the State of Ohio Emergency Operations Center in Columbus.

Should you have any questions regarding the net, I encourage you to contact Team W8SGT at w8sgtohio@gmail.com.

ARRL CENTENNIAL QSO PARTY

The ARRL Centennial QSO Party is a year-long operating event that celebrates hams making contacts. In the end you will have accumulated points, worked new stations and made new friends all over the world.


The Centennial QSO Party is made-up of two main activities: (1) W1AW operating portable in each state and most territories; and (2) The Centennial Points Challenge which is the accumulation of points from qualifying contacts made throughout 2014.  To have a score listed online in the Points Challenge competition, logs must be submitted through the  Logbook of the World (LoTW) system. 

Click on the link below for more information.

http://www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party

WINTER FIELD DAY 2014

Saturday, January 25th and Sunday the 26th is Winter Field Day sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of Amateur Radio (SPAR).  The event starts at Noon on Saturday and concludes at Noon on Sunday.  It's very similar to Field Day held in June but with the premise that emergencies and disasters don't always happen in warm weather.  In 2013, there were only 47 Winter Field Day logs submitted to SPAR.  I'd really like to see Ohio contribute to that.  So here's my challenge...I'd like to see as many stations from Ohio participate in Winter Field Day.  I can tell you several of us from the Geauga Amateur Radio Association will be on the air that weekend and I hope to hear you out there.  Check out their website http://www.spar-hams.org/contests/winterfd/index.php for more details.