Notes for the ARES meeting held on The Discord 06/17/2021
- If for any reason KE5IGO CHRIS HODGDON approaches you about Kaufman County ARES don’t discuss our group with him
- If he persist in trying to discuss our group with you refer him to me at kb5jbv@arrl.net
- Recruiting
- Talk up Kaufman County ARES where ever you go.
- Carry extra FSD-98 with you all the time
- All Field Organization forms and other paper work are a free download at the ARRL website at www.arrl.org and you do not have to be a mamber to get them.
- Tell people about the signup Form on the web
- At the website www.kcares.info
- At the Facebook Group www.facebook.com/groups/kcares/
- Hit “Share” on Facebook so the people in your friends list are sure to see it.
- Communications
- Repeater
- K5RCP is still under repair
- Look for possible locations to place a VHF machine if we have one offered
- we need to borrow a machine somehow
- We need to come up with a communication plan for county wide simplex operation
- We also need to utilize the radio club talkgroup on TGIF 75142
- I will be working on a DMR group for ARES soon
- Repeater
- Meetings and Net
- Start looking at possible places to have an in person meeting
- The Firehouse in Kaufman would be perfect but we cant rule out other places
- Resteraunts, warehouses, etc.
- The Firehouse in Kaufman would be perfect but we cant rule out other places
- Part of the communications section is about getting regular net sessions underway for training and aclamating everybody to working under net conditions
- Start looking at possible places to have an in person meeting
- Training
- ARRL Mandated
- Registration form FSD-98
- ARES Standardized Training Plan Task Book
- Fillable PDF
- Microsoft Word
- Basic SKYWARN classes (to participate during SKYWARN Nets)
- Please try to read through the ARES manual
- There will be some madatory training as we move forward
- Most training will be optional
- Team Training will be done via
- Regular on the air nets
- Ocasional video calls / meetings probably via Discord
- ARES in person Meetings
- ARRL Mandated
- Public Relations
- Make connections with other operators from other organizations
- Tell everybody you know about ARES and what we do
- our purpose
- the kind of situations we are called in for
- how we work with public service organizations (Lions, Masons, etc.) in the community
- how we work in the community out side of Weather
- and lastly how we work with the national weather service during severe weather
- Do the same on social media whenever possible
- Other
- We will be loosly based on the ICS model as far as structure
- Structure will be based on the concept of managable span of control
- We will be loosly based on the ICS model as far as structure
