Jasper Co ARES

1) Pledge of Allegiance and address any new members

Introductions with 2 new Radio Operators

2) Net Controls for the Following:
April 11: Thomas
April 18: Andy
April 25: Ron
May 2: Steven Jr

3) Meetings on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Initial test date is April 9 @ 1:00 pm. -Will try this and if we need to move it we will, depends on the head count, afterwards we will be doing a Saturn meeting if you want to attend

4) NWS Weather Spotter classes are done virtually. Need to try to get familiar with other states weather webinars. (handouts x 2)-Everyone needs to try to attend at least one. Handouts-Tactical Readiness And Response, NWS Tulsa, OK-Skywarn

5) Third Thursday for ARES continues April 21 to assist on closing. Need names whom will support. Please wear a vest and bring radio
Steve Sr
Steven Jr
John McBride

6) ARES 2022 events (comments and more events may
be available)
4/21/2022-Spring River Weather event. Steven Sr and John McBride will be doing event. John is working on putting a radio out there.
Girl Scout Event 4/30/2022, be there early it starts at 8AM, all day event, bring power cords if necessary
7) Healthcare Coalition VHF/UHF Amateur Radio Test, is April 21st from 10:00 am to 11:00 am, (145.350-10:00am), (145.390-10:30 am)
Thomas stated they want people to be in the facility if allowed.

8) ARES Calendar. #Does everyone want them? YES!!!!!

9) Zoom capability for members who cannot make it into meetings is planned for the future. Meeting reminders will be sent out the night before/a few hours before via email/text.

10) Looking for a tower location for the 145.190 repeater. Repeater will become the ARES emergency repeater. Looking to take the .190 off the hospital and Rex(JARC president) is willing to donate it to ARES there is a few possibilities of where we can place it. it is still TBD.

11) Stateline ARES Nets on Wednesdays at 7:30 pm. 147.240 and 146.940 repeaters are linked. Time may change to 7:00 pm if nets run out of time.(Script)-Tri-County Net wants all 3 Co to check in-Jasper, Cherokee and Crawford.

12) Jasper County ARES has two nets on Monday evenings. One at 7:00 pm for Skywarn Weather and one at 8:00 pm for Jasper County ARES.

13) GMRS Radios, price has dropped for license-Milton-Effective April 19 anytime you do anything it is a cost of $35. GMRS can include a family license.

14) Bylaws for ARES rules. Need to see if we need to have them or follow JARC club bylaws. There are some and Steven and Jennifer will get these together and get them out to the club so that everyone has them.

15) Training. What is a majority vote day for training
and time frame? Antenna training and repairs. Possibly one month do Drill and then the next month do a training. 1st training will be preparing for a fox hunt.

16) Self training. Need to emphasize that there are FEMA/SEMA classes that at least everyone should acquire and especially anyone in leadership. Go online to these webpage and see what classes you can get these completed
FEMA-100, 200, 700, 800 need to be completed. Go to ARRL-look up training and the 001 and 016 are for the Advance emergency course. Meted.com-get spotter training, this is done online and you will get a Certificate. Please print this out or email the certificate to Steve Kreeger at Eaglestar2_2001@yahoo.com

17) Salvation Army EDS is working on internet capability for EDS building.

18) Comments from EC Andy Gabbert-Would like everyone to do at least Net. We need everyone to know the ARRL phonetics. Need to Monitor the HF 3.963 80 Meters

ARES Training: (need vote on when)

Fox hunts presentation
Radio to go kits
Weather demos
Radio repairs, ie, radios, antennas, etc
Show your shack
Program radios manually ******
APRS System

Upcoming Weather webinars:

Look for other states and their spotter classes

Upcoming Events:
Next ARES Day Meeting-4/9 1PM
Jasper Co LEPC-4/20(Thomas and Steve)
Spring River Weather Presentation-4/21(John and Steve)
Girl Scout Radio Event-4/30-Columbus KS
Jasper Vintage Tour-5/21-Oronogo
Svitak Bike Ride-8/13-Joplin MSSU
Gorilla Bike Run-9/3-Pittsburg KS
Red Shoe Run-9/24-Ronald McDonald House-Joplin MO
May ARES Meeting-5/3-Night Meeting 5/14-Day Meeting

Member Name Remarks Call Sign Phone Call recd Radio Checked In on departure Radio checked in on destination Radio checked at home

1 Andy Gabbert Excused for disability KA0TUD X NO N/A YES
2 Steven E Kreeger Sr NET CONTROL KE0AKN X YES YES YES
3 Milton Grissom KE0CZR X N/A N/A N/A
4 Ron Young W0SEJ X YES Y/A YES
5 Thomas Zeller KB0ORZ X YES Y/A YES
6 Ray Brown KB0STN X YES Y/A YES
7 Steven E Kreeger Jr KE0QCT X YES Y/A YES
8 Jennifer Kalishivech KE0OPP X YES Y/A YES
9 John McBride N0UQC X YES Y/A YES
10 John Horan KE0AQA X YES Y/A YES
11 Dean Brooks Excused for location KF0HBU X N/A N/A YES
12 Corey Colett KD5CWC X YES Y/A YES
13 Zach Downs KE0KOW N/A N/A N/A N/A

Destinations HT Check in
Member Location Call Sign
Jennifer Yes 3rd Joplin St KE0OPP
Ron Young No 3rd Virgina W0SEJ

John McBride No 6th Joplin St N0UQC
Steven Jr No 6th Virginia KE0QCT

Thomas Zeller Yes 2nd Main KB0ORZ
Ray Brown Yes 7th Main KB0STN

John Horan No %th Main Carthage KE0AQA

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Jasper County Amateur Radio Emergency Services
Disaster Drill Simulation
March 15, 2022

Situation:
Joplin City Hall has been hit with an explosion.
Unknow source of type and repercussion.
Emergency Manager has deployed the Jasper County Amateur Radio group coordinate reduction of traffic into Downtown Joplin. Radio coordination between check points.
The group will be utilizing the Joplin repeater 147.210. Approval has been given by the trustee to utilize it. It will be activated at 7:00 pm.
The group will be notified by phone of their location destination. They are to report of departure and arrival to destination.
Once all is all checked in. The members will convert to HTs to test if everyone can be heard.
Incident command will be located at 5th Main St for center of covered area.

6:50 pm Announce the drill exercise
7:00 pm Call all operators
7:30 pm Operators should be checking in
7:45 pm Test HTs among all users
8:00 pm Complete exercise and have users report when designated to home locations.

The local ARES group will conduct a drill exercise on Tuesday 15, 2022. Time will be 7:00 pm. Stay tuned for further post.

Net Controls for the Jasper County Amateur Radio Emergency Services Group for March 2022 and first week of April are the following:

March 7, 2022 Thomas Zeller KB0ORZ
March 14, 2022 Steven E Kreeger Sr KE0AKN
March 21, 2022 Andy Gabbert KA0TUD
March 28, 2022 Ron Young W0SEJ
April 4, 2022 John McBride N0UQC
All nets are held on the 444.625 frequency with a PL tone of 91.5. Nets begin at 8:00 pm on Monday evenings.

Jasper County Amateur Radio Emergency Services
February 15, 2022 Drill Exercise

A simulated ARES drill exercise was conducted on Tuesday, February 15. The simulation was that Modine and Eagle Picher was both bombed by unknown sources.
The command center was set up at the Big Lots parking lots.

The ARES group was detailed to go to designated locations and give status of those sites. Reports was also given if any local fire departments had dispatched from the area that they were dispatched to. Sirens were going off from fire trucks around the command center.

The exercise was started at 7:00 pm. It was not complete until 7:30pm after checked in that they were back home on their home locations.

The following members were assigned to locations below:
Steven Sr KE0AKN Command Center
(Ran communications from ICS)

Steven Jr KE0QCT Fire Station 5
(All trucks were on site and available)

Jennifer KE0OPP Fire Station 1
(One truck was being dispatched}

Thomas KB0ORZ Ozark Christian School
(No activity was present)

Zachariah KE0KOW Duenwig Fire Station
(All trucks present)

Ray KB0STN Freeman East
(All fire trucks were available at closest station)

Ron W0SEJ Oronogo Fire Department)
(One truck was missing from location)

John N0UQC MSSU Stadium
(Light car and people traffic)

Two non-members volunteered for support:
Don KOEMF MSSU Stadium
(All was OK and no issues)

John KE0AQA MSSU main campus
(No activity)

Two missing members:
Andy KA0TUD
Milton KE0CZR

Report completed on February 17, 2022 by Steven E Kreeger Sr, KE0AKN. Assistant Emergency Coordinator for Jasper County ARES.

The March Meeting for the month of March is scheduled for March 1, 2022. It will be held at the St Phillips Episcopal church located at 706 Byers, Joplin Mo. The meeting will be held at 7:00 pm. Enter through the South door.

1) Pledge of Allegiance
ATTENDANCE:
Steven Sr
Steven Jr
Ron
Thomas
Ray
Andy
Jennifer
Rex

2) Net Controls for February
7-Thomas
14-Andy
21-Steve Sr
28-Ron
March 7-Steven Jr

3) Discussion on Simplex Nets, especially 146.400
Simplex vs Jim Scotts Repeater-A Simplex frequency

4) Location of Meetings, EDS building vs Church
Before getting the church-Set up Zoom meeting(zoom is monitored)
EDS is still on Covid restriction Till Feb 7th. Will revisit later. March Meeting at Church

5) Meetings on Tuesdays and/or Saturdays
We Will look into March 8th for Tuesday Meeting and March 12th for Sat Meeting.

6) Upcoming weather status, possible net active
Watch Radars and Patti gave permision to work with Skywarn on 350. and 625. Steve will be monitoring

7) JARC Meeting discussion on representatives
Jon & Ray, Rex invited ARES to April 12th Meeting to see zoom meeting with Bob Heil at church in Lowell, KS. HAM Fest Sept 30 and Oct 1 at Elks lodge in Joplin. Also he stated that the Club is looking into getting a building that is just Radio Clubs.

8) Quarterly Healthcare Nets on 145.350/145.390
Ron Ray Steve 2nd Thursday of quarter(Next in April)

9) ARES Emails. Emails generated from Web Page
Verify everyone is getting these

10) Training for ARES Plan. Starting with FEMA IS-800
Everyone needs to complete FEMA Training

11) Pending discussion with Meteorologist Doug Cramer on weather spotting on flooding
Doug is discussing with Steve in regards to being dispatched for Flooding. Doug is working on the plan and will be getting with us to get this processed.

12) Comments from EC – Andy Gabbert-None

Volunteer Work Discuss-Will work with local organizations to see what we can assist with.

ARES Training:
Fox hunts presentation
Radio to go kits
Weather demos
Radio repairs, ie, radios, antennas, etc

Upcoming Weather webinars:

Upcoming Events:
SVITAK Bike Ride August 13, 2022-We Will Sponsor
Joplin Coalition Events, Pending
Third Thursday’s closing April-October
Red Shoe Run, Pending
Gorilla Bike Ride pending

February 7, 2022 KB0ORZ Thomas Zeller
February 14, 2022 KA0TUD Andy Gabbert
February 21, 2022 KE0AKN Steven E Kreeger Sr
February 28, 2022 W0SEJ Ron Young
March 7, 2022 KE0QCT Steven E Kreeger Jr

ARES is an acronym for Amateur Radio Emergency Service, a public service of the ARRL (American Radio Relay League), the United States’ national association of amateur radio operators. ARES KANSAS is one of many state, county, and city ARES organizations throughout the United States.

ARES is an all volunteer organization which provides auxiliary radio communications without charge to:
government agencies during times of emergency, including hurricanes, earthquakes, and forest fires other organizations active in emergencies, such as hospitals or the American Red Cross and other groups running festivals, parades, fund raising events and similar community or public service events.

ARES can provide essential communications when: telephone and cellular systems, or an agency’s regular radio systems, are disrupted or overloaded communications are needed at spots where telephone lines and cell coverage are not possible.

ARES operators can establish communications at any location, with or without commercial electrical service, using special amateur radio equipment and frequencies granted by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC).