The following is excerpted from the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) publication IARU Emergency Telecommunications Guide. (2015) A PDF file of the document can be found here. As important as what you are, is what you are not. There are … Continue reading
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RAGBRAI will be in Linn County on 23-24 July. Through Palo on the first day to the overnight in Hiawatha, then east and then south through Springville the day after. Linn County ARES (and affiliated clubs) will be active during … Continue reading
The next Duane Arnold drill will be 20 May (Wednesday), starting at roughly 8 AM. Expectation is that we’ll staff a location or two, but otherwise just take checkins to test equipment. No activity will take place until the pagers go … Continue reading
Linn County ARES is co-sponsoring (along with the Cedar Valley ARC and Linn County EMA) NWS Weather Spotter Training on 22 February 2014. It starts at 1 PM at St Mark’s, 8300 C Ave NE. Registration will start around 12:15, … Continue reading
Hey, everyone! We’re doing Witch Watch again this year. For those not familiar with the event, we go out on Halloween and patrol areas not covered by their own police departments (Palo, Central City, Coggon, etc.) to assist the Sheriff’s … Continue reading
Support them if you can! 4 September — NDMS drill. For Linn County, this will entail having amateurs at each hospital. Traffic will be passed via the 800 MHz HAN system ONLY, unless we are forced to deviate from the … Continue reading
We have DAEC drills coming soon. The first is a dry-run on 5 March. The second is a fully graded drill (FEMA will be present) on 9 April. We will respond per our standard guidelines when paged. A net control … Continue reading
Linn County ARES is co-sponsoring (along with the Cedar Valley ARC and Linn County EMA) NWS Weather Spotter Training on 22 February 2014. It starts at 1 PM at St Mark’s, 8300 C Ave NE. Registration will start around 12:15, … Continue reading
I don’t have all the numbers in yet, but thus far, Linn County ARES and affiliated groups put in just over 2400 staff-hours on public service and emergency events in 2013! This excludes an event in November for which I … Continue reading
We added a guideline for frequency hopping during a net. Look under Operating Guidelines. 73, Scott