The NWMO ARES® Group will have its annual party/potluck at 6pm at the Cameron Public Safety building Saturday Dec. 10th. All guests are asked to bring a side dish and table service. Main entree and drinks will be provided.
16 "HAMS" operated from the Turney Depot Saturday Nov. 19th 2011. Over 25 contacts were made over the 3 hour event. CW, SSB were used to make those contacts. 2 100W stations and 1 5W station were setup inside the depot all using temporary antennas strung up around the lot and verticals put in the ground. Everyone had a great time and the generators got a good workout as well. The Mo Valley ARC sponsored the event and the NWMO ARES® Group was invited to participate as well. Look for more of these events in the future to help get the word out about Ham Raio and to help prepare for next years Field Day!
The Plattsburg repeater (146.895- pl 114.8) is now linked to the 440 system in all of NWMO. The 440 system has repeaters in Saint Jo, Rockport, Bethany, Leavenworth KS and Marceline. ECHOLINK is also available, look for node KC0QLU-R.
The NWMO ARES® Group has a weekly net every Sunday evening at 8pm so feel free to check-in using any of the NWMO repeaters. We are also working on getting the hospital stations on the net as well in Fairfax, Bethany, Cameron, and Saint Jo along with the Cameron EOC. There is plenty of work to be done in Region H so feel free to jump in and help promote and establish an ARES® presence in NWMO.
If you have any questions about the link system or how you can assist us with the hospital stations or ARES in general feel free to contact me.
The list of frequencies can be found at www.nwmoares.org look under the frequency tab..
KC0QLU met with hospital staff, and 2 prospective hams at the Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany, MO Saturday Nov. 12th 2011. In attendace were: KC0QLU Trevor, WK0Q Allen, KD0ISZ Alicia, KD0ITK Marcene, Chris, and Melissa. Topics were narrowbanding, repeater use, antenna needs for the hospital, and starting a simplex net in the area. The group has been meeting monthly for a while now and hopes to expand the number of operators in that area. They are looking to have a ham class after the first of the year and have asked the NWMO ARES Group to provide that training. The NWMO ARES Group assisted the hospital with the installation of a ham station for emergency communications in 2010 and are hoping to expand in the area.
WD0BC Bill from St. Joe and others from the area will be setting up a ham radio station or stations Field Day style at the old depot in Turney, MO November 19th 9am to 12pm. Everyone is welcomed to setup theirs as well and enjoy a few hours talking on and about radio! Don't want to bring yours then just stop by for the fun of it! More info to follow.
Members of the NWMO ARES® Group and MO Valley ARC put on another successful hamfest this year. There were over 30 tables sold and approx. 200 tickets sold as well. Lots of deals were made as well as several new hams or upgrades thanks to the NWMO ARES ® Groups W5YI testing session. Hourly door prizes and a Grand Prize Wouxon dual band handheld was given away as well. Checkout this LINK for more info about this years and next years plans!
The NWMO ARES Group will have it’s monthly meeting this Thursday 9/8/2011 7pm at the Plattsburg Fire station. We will discuss the upcoming hamfest as well as other items for the group.
Go to www.ponyexpresshamfest.webs.com for more info!
