Due to the blizzard conditions over most of Missouri, SEMA the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency has asked any Ham radio operators that have the ability to monitor the national calling frequency of 146.520 simplex for any stranded motorists. As of now we have 5 stations monitoring for emergency traffic in the NWMO area.

A BIG thank you to WD0BBR for spending several hours Saturday and Sunday getting the repeater back up and going. Also a BIG thanks to the MO Valley ARC in St. Joe for allowing us to use their back up repeater until we can get ours rebuilt. The net tonight January 30th will be on the Plattsburg repeater and linked into the N0SWP repeater as well.

The NWMO ARES Group will have their monthly business meeting this Saturday Jan. 8th at 9am. Club officers will be voted in and we will be preparing for our message handling class on our Feb. meeting. Other topics include new SEC for the state, Region wide net, Dues, and much more. Everyone, member or not, is welcome. For info contact kc0qlu(at)nwmoares(dot)com.

Can you believe it? 4 years! Everyone is welcome, member or not, to attend. We will be electing new officers and then enjoying good food and fellowship 6pm to 10pm. Bring your family and your favorite side dish. The location is the Cameron Public Safety Building Cameron, MO. For directions or questions contact kc0qlu(at)yahoo(dot)com.

KG0CX and NJ0Z set up a WINLINK demonstration during the Open House on Nov. 5th 2010 from 11am to 4pm. Bob and George have done a great job setting up the station at the Health Department installing a 30′ tower, dual band vertical, dual band radio, computer and now WINLINK. Several messages were delivered and received using the Cameron hospital RMS Packet gateway. Special thanks to N0VX for his assistance in testing the station.

47 walkers participated in the 4th annual “Walk for HD” on October 9th 2010. Members of the NWMO A.R.E.S.® Group were there providing communications throughout the route and providing water and snacks to the walkers. The weather was near perfect and a good time was had by all. The walk raised approx. $2,000. A BIG thank you to the members for taking time from their families to help with this great event.

Thanks to members of the NWMO ARES® Group and WKØQ the hospital in Bethany, MO now has a functioning ham radio station to use in the event of a disaster. Members NJØZ, WDØHHJ, WØAFS, KCØQLU, and local operator WKØQ spent several hours running coax from the roof of the building to the first floor ambulance office and installing a Yaesu FT-857. (Sorry no pictures) Everything went as planned, the weather was fantastic and thanks to everyone bringing their skills, equipment and determination the station is now operational. The hospital has 2 employees that have their Tech license and our group has been asked to do a training session with those operators.

Thanks again to those who gave up part of their weekend to assist the hospital with their emergency communications efforts.

NWMO ARES® Meeting 8-14-10

Members in attendance

kg0cx
kc0qlu
w0afs
wd0hhj
kd0eev

W0AFS Jay took the Extra test last week and passed and wants wants to be a VE NJ0Z will set him up

4 members will go to Fairfax hospital today to take down the ham station to get ready to move to new hospital being built and should be done in a month or so.

Members will be going to Bethany Aug. 28th to finish install of ham station in the Harrison County Community Hospital

hamfest we have coffee and supplies to sell. Members need to help run the table at entrance and with testing.

Decided to use online badge company to get badges made up for the group at a price of $20 each. Members will be responsible for the cost.

NJ0Z ordered 10 reflective vests from the ARRL for members to purchase. They will be $26 each. They will have the ARES® badge on the front and “Amateur Radio Emergency Communications” on the back.

testing session that was scheduled for next saturday has been pushed back to Sept. 18th at the St. Jo hamfest to give more time to prepare.

NJ0Z discussed WINLINK class that he attended at the KCNORTH ARES meeting and how it relates to our group and emergency communications.

Nj0Z is looking into shirts for the group to wear for Public Displays and events we attend.

N9NIC called on the repeater to report a motorist assist request. He passed a car that was on the side of the road at the 48 MM of I35 NB that had a strong gasoline odor and believed they needed help. KC0QLU relayed info to Cameron PD.

Meeting adjourned at 11:00am

Members of the NWMO ARES® Group set up a display for amateur radio at the Plattsburg Fire Departments Open House and Truck unveiling on July 24th 2010.

On July 22nd 2010 the NWMO ARES® Group received a call from the City of Cameron EMD requesting assistance to man a Cooling Shelter at 315 E. 3rd St. in Cameron, MO. NJ0Z called down the list of members to see who would be available. Those who responded that could assist were: KC0QLU, NJ0Z, KC0YEJ, KD0EEV, W0AFS. Communications were being conducted through Public Safety frequencies for the event however we did use the Plattsburg and Osborn repeaters to coordinate our response within the group. EMD Corey Sloan requested that we work in 2 hour shifts. On Thursday night the shelter ran from 1pm until 7:30pm and on Friday the shelter was open from 1pm until 5pm. Total man hours for the event was 13. Our members were able to cover all shifts necessary for this response.