Robert WebsterThe Statewide ARES Sunday Evening Net Schedule, for the remainder of the 2025 Hurricane Season has been confirmed.
The net will convene on the following Sunday evenings at 20.00 US ET:
9/14/25, 9/28/25
10/12/25, 10/26/25
11/9/25, 11/23/25
Information regarding the non-hurricane season nets schedule and format (December 2025 through May 2026) will be available in October 2025.
If you have questions, send them along to Robert (WR8RW) at robert.webster@ares-sc.org
The upcoming are August and September 2025 ARES / Amateur Radio events as presented on the 3 August SC ARES Statewide Net by John (KE4JRK)
Event Date / Time Location Contact Event Page
Florence ARC 8/9 West Florence Fire Scott (KG4HIE) Florence ARC
Tailgate 8AM – 1 PM Company Annex 843-479-4794
28th International 8/16 00.01 UTC Hunting Island SC Lighthouse Event
Lighthouse Lightship 8/17 24.00 UTC
Weekend
Iron Mountain 8/22 Cripple Creek VA Randy (KE4RL) Iron Mountain
Jubilee Endurance 8/23
Horse Ride
Get Ready 8/22 Greenville SC Get Ready G’ville
Greenville
Registration
Deadline
ARRL Podcast 8/26 On Line ead@arrl.org Podcast Link
(September 8.00 PM
National
Preparedness
Month)
Get Ready 9/13 Greenville SC Get Ready G’ville
Greenville 10 AM
Special Event 9/26 – 10/3 145.190 Vicki Carnes Project Helene
N2G Hurricane 5 PM – (Mt. Mitchell (AD3I)
Helene 9 PM NC Repeater) vfcarnes@gmail.com
. EchoLink Node
. 593509
. (N2GE-R)
Have questions? Contact John (KE4JRK) at KE4JRK@gmail.com.
Recently the SC ARES DEC (District Emergency Coordinator) Working Group met to discuss the topic of an SC ARES agreed replacement for the Ham Shack Hotline Voice Over IP (VOIP) service that will be decommissioned 31 August 2025.
The team agreed that Hams Over IP (HOIP) will be the SC ARES VOIP preferred replacement for Ham Shack Hotline.
Like Ham Shack Hotline, HOIP is a “no cost to the user” service. Numerous VOIP desk phone sets are supported as well certain soft phones. Your current desk set may very well be supported.
There are a some initial steps required to have a “number” assigned to you, and your HOIP implementation credentials being established.
-First go to:
https://helpdesk.hamsoverip.com/osticket/account.php?do=create
to establish an HOIP account
-Then go to:
https://helpdesk.hamsoverip.com/osticket/open.php
to log in, then open a “new ticket” requesting a “number”
Note: to establish an account, and to be assigned a “number”, you will be required to submit an electronic image of your current active Amateur Radio license.
Following the approval of your “number” request, HOIP will e-mail you the credentials to “provision” your phone / set.
You are encouraged to migrate to HOIP as soon as you are able. The 31 August date is not that far off.
The ARES statewide Sunday evening net schedule for the remainder of July and August 2025 has been updated. The dates for our nets during these two months are:
20 July
3 August
17 August
31 August
On these upcoming nets, in July and August, we will be adding information segments related to:
-The latest hurricane prediction / status with time for Q & A
-SCHEART system status overview and important outages or upcoming changes with time for Q & A
-Any upcoming ARES / Amateur Radio-based events of note
Between these segments will take check ins as we customarily have done.
During July and August a team, consisting of ARES leaders and partners, will undertake a review of the net and suggest updates that would help add more value to the net. It is anticipated that any changes recommended by this team will be ready by 7 September.
Updates will be available on this website as they occur.
If anyone has questions or suggestions feel free to contact WR8RW on robert.webster@ares-sc.org.
The SC ARES Tactical Plan V4_7F June 19th, 2025 has been published.
The AuxComm USA Winlink P2P Party will begin Tuesday 13 May at UTC 00:00 . This event will operate on frequency 14.119 (USB), using VARA HF. This is a 24 hours exercise.
Tuesday’s exercise is a reschedule of the event that was cancelled on Tuesday 6 May due to poor propagation conditions.
The final destination station, WX0NET, will be on its North-South Antenna for the first 12 hours, and its East-West antenna for the last 12 hours.
As of now there are two confirmed relay stations:
One in Colorado, callsign N0OM
A second in Washington State, callsign KJ7SJG
Additional relay stations are still needed. If you want to volunteer as a relay station, send an email to Admin@AuxCommUSA.org with your name, location, and callsign. You will be added to the list on the AuxComm USA (Public) Facebook page.
Try to connect when it’s most convenient for you. Some congestion is expected, so be patient. Remember messages are intended to be Winlink point-to-point. Telnet messages and messages sent via RMS Gateways will not be counted.
Bob Connell (KI4RAX) has served as the Manager for the ARES VHF/UHF Sunday night net since July of 2023.
Last week, Bob informed us that he will be stepping down from his net manager role at the end of June.
We thank Bob for the time and effort he has contributed while managing this net during the last two years, and wish him well in the new efforts he will begin.
Due to Bob’s upcoming Net Manager retirement, we are looking for a resource to fill that role.
If you are interested in applying to fill Net Manager role, or want to know more about what the Net Manager is responsible for, feel free to contact me at: robert.webster@ares-sc.org.