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!

Trevor Black, along with Bob and Linda Pugh, took time on Tuesday, June 14 to teach the Plattsburg Pioneers 4-H group about Ham Radio and its importance to emergency management. The 4-Hers were allowed to talk on the radio and check out the equipment. Several of the parents were also interested in learning more about Ham Radio.

The NWMO ARES® Group has 5 new members. They filled out the membership form on our site so please feel free to contact them and welcome them to the group.

As a reminder our Monthly meeting is this Saturday at the Cameron Public Safety building 9am.
We will get our Field Day plans done and discuss some revenue items as well.

Hope to see you there!

I am posting a pdf of a hybrid ICS-213 / Radiogram form.  It includes a radiogram header with an ICS-213 form. An ICS-213 is a standard format used for message traffic during emergency situations. This form was created by an ARES Group in Ohio. ICS213-ARRL. A fillable word document follows from the Hillsburough County New Hampshire ARES. ICS213/Radiogram – Fillable

As long as the weather holds we will be taking down the old antenna and hard line and installing new antenna and hard line. We will need ground crew to assist so if you are available then immediately following our monthly meeting the work will begin. Approx. 10:30am.

The Plattsburg repeater 146.895 was hit by lightning on April 3rd. All activity will be on the KB0ALL repeater until further notice. KB0ALL is on a frequency of 147.390 pl 146.2. We will still link into the N0SWP repeater on a frequeny of 442.675+ pl 127.3. If you would like to assist the group with getting the repeater back up and going please join the group or contact KC0QLUat nwmoares.org.

This months NWMO ARES meeting will be held at Nelle’s Restaraunt located at HWY36 and I-35 inside the truck stop across from McDonalds in Cameron, MO. Lots to discuss especially the latest repeater vs lightning strike!!!!

The regular monthly meeting for the group is this Saturday 9am at the Cameron PD in Cameron, MO. This month we will be going over message handling in emergencies immediately following the business meeting.