J-Pole Building Party

Everyone is invited to come out on October 15, after the monthly ARES meeting to build a roll up J-Pole. It will be a fun learning experience and you will have a J-Pole when you go home. The cost is $6 to cover the cost of parts. Please, register by October 7th by filling out the form found at the following link. J-Pole build 10/16 Meeting Karl Martin KG4HBN ARES … Read more…

September Meeting

This Saturday September 17 at 3pm will be the ARES monthly meeting. I will be sharing the MS 150 information that I have. We will also be covering programing and knowing how to use your VFO on your radio. The MS 150 will be October 22 and 23. Volunteers will be stationed at MS 150 rest stop along the bike route. Most stops will be located at a park or … Read more…

Post Hurricane Hermine

I want to thank everyone that contacted me will to help as needed. We missed being hit by hurricane Hermine by just a few miles. The panhandle of Florida has millions of dollars in damages and at least two deaths. We have two more disturbances moving west off the cost of Africa that could follow the same track. Keep in mind this is the peak of hurricane season, we still … Read more…

TD9 Update

At this time the Volusia County emergency operations center is monitoring this system. There is no activation expected. This can change at anytime so be prepared and have your equipment ready.  Please monitor the 147.240 T123 in the event of a net activation and ARES calls for volunteers. Our regularly scheduled net is tomorrow night at 7:30pm. If there are any changes in alert level I will post it here … Read more…