This Saturday is the monthly ARES meeting. It will be held at the normal meeting location but at a new time 1pm. You can find directs here. Meetings Agenda Field day results and lessons learned. Repeater, shelter and hospital survey. The last week of this month or start of August we will have a survey to check for changes in the 147.240 and other repeaters antenna pattern and strength. We … Read more
The testing session scheduled for 9am has been moved to 3pm. The powerpole workshop is still scheduled for 3pm but will be held outside. If you can not make the workshop at 3pm you are still welcome to come out any time during the field day event. It doesn’t take long to show you how to make the changes. I hope this does not present any inconvenience. Karl Martin KG4HBN
Field Day 2017 is one month away on June 24th and 25th. If you plan on attending field day this year or want to bring out food or drinks to support the volunteers at field day, this is the time to let us know your plans. Go to https://www.volusiaares.org/field-day-2017/ and fill out the form to help coordinate efforts. You can also contact me directly at. Karl Martin KG4HBN Emergency Coordinator Volusia … Read more
VARES will be holding it’s monthly meeting on April 15th at 10 AM at the Volusia county fire training center located at 3889 Tiger Bay Road, Daytona Beach 32124. We will be discussing this year’s field day, new location and new coordination. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. Karl Martin KG4HBN Emergency Coordinator Volusia Amateur Radio Emergency Service kg4hbn@gmail.com P/T 386-756-9861 volusiaares.org
REMEMBER: to signup on the Walk MS website. This way when you go to registration at the event your information is in place. https://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/VARES Here is the assignment sheet with all the details for Saturdays Walk MS 2017. This is in PDF format and can be downloaded or printed. I highly recommend everyone print a copy and have it with you during the event. This covers assignments, tactical callsigns, … Read more
NOW is the time to sign up for one of the upcoming BRACE for the Storm Workshops because in less than three months the 2017 Hurricane Season will be upon us. The FREE internet based BRACE for the Storm Workshop is designed to provide information to homeowners on disaster mitigation techniques that may reduce damage to their homes from hurricanes and other disasters that threaten Floridians. In addition, homeowners will … Read more
The Volusia County Health Department will be holding free ICS-100 and ICS-700 classes every month for 2017. Everyone is welcome but you must pre-register with Gregory Melvin before you can take ether class. These classes can be taken online for free as well at https://training.fema.gov/nims/ After completing the class you will be given a certificate of completion. Please email a copy to kg4hbn@gmail.com or bring a copy to our next meeting. … Read more
During the February meeting it was discussed moving the ARES meeting time to 10am. Doing this would give people and ARES more time for activities in the afternoon. For now, this is just a temporary change just for the March and April meetings. If this time works better for our volunteers then we will make this a permanent change. Meeting Agenda ED KA1G will be giving an NTS traffic handling … Read more
Volusia AREs has been asked to provide communications during this years MS walk located in Ormond Beach. This is a 1.5 mile walk from the Casements, across the Granada bridge and back. We will be using simplex frequency 145.555 with no tone. An arrival time has not been provided but will be posted shortly. The end of the event should be by 1pm. VARES is asking for volunteer to help provide … Read more