May 18
ARES, RACES, AuxComm or ANY Amateur Radio Station is requested to participate in the FEMA Exercise involving Region 4 (Southeast) and Region 6. This takes about 5 minutes and since South Carolina is NOT in one of the 4 disaster areas hit, the “ground truth” you will share with the requested Winlink Form can be …
May 03
Sat. Jun 04, 2022 10:00-15:00 South Carolina Emergency Management Division West Columbia SC Gabe Turner CW2 (SC) Communications Manager CLICK to register for the June training event.
Mar 21
Rollup from 3/19/22 Exercise 27 Counties represented Total 11 actual EOC’s and 2 County trailers deployed (Beaufort and Cherokee) 1 Municipal EOC (Myrtle Beach EOC) 5 Hospitals 1 Nursing Center (Saluda Nursing Center) 73 resource requests processed via radio 209 winlink messages received. Unsure on total number of actual traffic received but will compute that …
Feb 15
Online tool we can use to see if we have clear line of sight for simplex operation. Take a look: https://www.scadacore.com/tools/rf-path/rf-line-of-sight/
Jan 24
Batteries, solar panels and solar charge controllers. Which is best for EmComm ? RF Quiet solar charge controller, Series vs Parallel panels, PWM or MPPT, which is best ? View Vimeo Video: https://vimeo.com/669261305 Provided by the RatPack group. Suggestions to live by: -> Never plug a solar panel directly into a battery <- -> Make sure the solar …
ARES: FCC Licensed Amateur Radio Operators who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment, with the local ARES leadership, for communications duty in the public service when disaster strikes. ARRL/ARES provides basic training curriculum and exercise opportunities. The list of agencies a volunteer might end up serving is long but could include a County EOC/CERT, Hospital …
View Video: https://vimeo.com/590153252 Download Video: https://vimeo.com/user107547861/download/590153252/f697f7a109 Documents: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5y3ibk6b1zquux9/AAAq5sKztpxikh1pIDgxlMkAa?dl=0 “There is a lot to like in this talk. Most of it is role model/best practice” Erik Westgard NY9D The insurance question is at time stamp 53:40 South Carolina is a home rule state: Home rule in the United States generally signifies a shift of governing power from the state …
View Video: https://vimeo.com/586961385 Download Video: https://vimeo.com/user107547861/download/586961385/f71194f2a6 Documents: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xpk08dm5nw69a0l/AACiHHyaaMqr0ANPy2BcasKma?dl=0 —> Provided by RATPAC…Radio Amateur Training Planning and Activities Committee 8/12/2021
Jul 30
While this group of folks is not associated with ARES they are committed to emergency comms specifically Winlink ICS traffic. So if you need some training and practice this group is the place to spend your free time. EmComm-Training Group
Riley Hollingsworth is the ARRL guy managing the Volunteer Monitor program and he has cleared up a few things about when you must self ID. This applies to operating on amateur radio frequencies ONLY. If you are operating on a frequency outside of the amateur radio bands you will follow the direction given by the …