The Alabama Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) will once again conduct a FM Simplex Exercise designed to encourage members to test their range on FM Simplex. This will be a two-hour exercise starting at 4:00PM Central until 6:00PM Central time on Saturday, June 13th.
This test is held during the ARRL June VHF QSO Contest to allow ARES volunteers to have the opportunity to contact more distant VHF contest stations, many of whom run high power and gain antennas. During last year’s event, some ARES volunteers were able to make contacts over 200 miles away from their QTH!
During the event, stations will exchange call signs and “grid squares”. You can also obtain your grid square from www.qrz.com by looking up your callsign and then clicking on “details”. Birmingham, Shelby, and Tuscaloosa are in EM63, Huntsville is in EM64, Montgomery is in EM62, & Mobile is in EM50. Find your grid square today & be ready for the exercise.A typical QSO might go something like: Continue reading
The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009.
If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.
Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate:
Please call: (877) 951-0997 and enter participants code 741083.The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009.
If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.
Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate:
Please call: (877) 951-0997 and enter participants code 741083. Continue reading
Special Thanks to "Just" John Miller – KI4VVM for the following email:
“Thanks Jim and all the rest at the National Weather Service for the great fish fry and fellowship. The Alabama Emergency Response Team is grateful for the NWS showing their appreciation by giving us a good old fashion fish fry with all the trimmings.
Thanks again to the NWS for honoring us ,but most of all thank you for all you do as well.”
Special Thanks to "Just" John Miller – KI4VVM for the following email:
Continue reading“Thanks Jim and all the rest at the National Weather Service for the great fish fry and fellowship. The Alabama Emergency Response Team is grateful for the NWS showing their appreciation by giving us a good old fashion fish fry with all the trimmings.
Thanks again to the NWS for honoring us ,but most of all thank you for all you do as well.”
Hi everyone,
Tonight, May 12, the annual elections were held for ALERT.
Your Officers for 2009 – 2010 are:
President: Mark Wells – WD4NYL
Vice-President: Russell Thomas – KV4S
Operations: Ron Arant – N4PHP
Treasurer: Ed Pitchford – KD4AY
Membership: Russell Thomas – KV4S
NWS Liaison: Nathan Jones – WX4NLJ
Secretary: Steven Moss – KB4FKN
Training: Howard Moss – KC4QJA
Public Information: John Miller – KI4VVM
Additionally, we recognize that our Spotterchat is a unique resource that members at home can and should play an active part in, even when there is no “official” callout.
As spotterchat grows we must be able to conduct it’s operations in an effecient, coordinated and controlled manner.
To fill this growing need Ed Manley — W4AGA has been appointed as our Spotterchat Coordinator.
He will be in charge of coordinating ALERT’s response and coverage on the Spotterchat & in developing ways to better utilize this vital resource.
I want to congratulate our officers. I think our best year is just around the corner.
Thank you for yo Continue reading
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