Jasper County, Missouri
Amateur Radio Emergency Services
May 3, 2022
Agenda
12 Operators present for the meeting
1) Pledge of Allegiance and address any new members. Pass out calendars
Discussed events listed on Calendar
:Updated Time on 5-17 to 7PM.
2) Net Controls for the Following:
May 9:-Thomas
May 16:-Andy
May 23:-Ron
May 30:(Simplex)-Milton or Steve Sr
June 06:-John
3) .210 repeater is used for Skywarn, Cherokee County Nerds will assist with this. Bylaws are in the works.
4) Discussion on WRN Presentation
John and Steve went to the church and presented, it went really well with lots of questions, concluded this with
a cupcake presentation, got alot of great feedback
5) Discussion on Girl Scout event-
Several went up, was a great hit with the Girl scouts, Antennas, wires-x, several different radios and morse code.
6) Third Thursday for ARES continues May 19 to assist on closing. 14.700 worked great.
Speak with Daya about when MSSU event is and see what 3rd Thursday we want to set up
Need names whom will support
Steven JR
Steve Sr
Dean
Cristian
Jennifer/Brit
John
Virgil
7) ARES Meeting on Jasper Vintage Tour is May 17, 2022 at 7:00pm at Salvation Building.
8) Zoom capability for members whom cannot make it into meetings is planned for future.
Steve is going to look into getting password for Internet so that we can do zoom meeting.
9) The 145.190 repeater has been removed from the hospital. Once location is found, repeater will become the ARES emergency repeater.
There were several people from ARES and JARC that assisted with the removal and will work on getting a location
10) Self training. Need to emphasize that there are FEMA/SEMA classes that at least everyone should acquire and especially anyone in leadership.
Everyone needs to work on going to the arrl website and check what FEMA classes you need to take and then we need to work on getting these completed. Also make sure to report how many hours you did so that we can report these for Training hours, to Ron, Steve or Jennifer.
11) Need to set up training for Fox Hunt
To track the fox we would need to build a directional antenna. Tape measure, yagi, Loop-Get Steve the material list so we can get the stuff to make it, Ray has some of the material. This is done on a fixed simplex frequency 146.585
12) What is the majority of request to build.
Steve place antenna build for 3rd Tuesday of June
13) All Spotter webinars have been completed. Be sure that if you attended any, be sure Ron Young has been notified for Training hours.
14)Training:
A. Fox hunts presentation-In progress
B. Radio to go kits-everyone needs to get one set up cause we cannot always take our cars. Steve needs to put together what needs to go into a Radio to go kit
C. Weather demos-We are planning on doing our own here and invite people or we can go to the location.
Radio repairs, ie, radios, antennas, etc
D. Show your shack-Take a picture of your shack or your set-up no matter how big or small.
E. Program radios manually-Potentially set for a training on 3rd Tuesday for July
F. APRS System-Need to look into utilizing this and getting it set up so that Net can see where you are with upcoming weathers
G. Message Handling-we are going to have to learn how to do this due to ARRL requirements.
15) Comments from EC Andy Gabbert
Upcoming Events:
Steve Needs to send Script to Cristian for Net control.