Author: Pat Hagge

[Update 5/10/2022] Due to unforeseen circumstances, the meeting on the 14th will be canceled. The topic “What Is In Your Go Kit” will be moved to be the topic for June’s (June 18th) meeting.

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The May ARES Meeting will be held May 14th, 2022 starting at 9:00am at the Rochester Fire Station #2 (2185 Wheelock Dr NE). The program for this month’s meeting will be “What Is In Your Go Kit?” and you are asked to bring you go kit and communications equipment.

We will review the decisions to help you build, update and change your go kit as needed. You can bring anything from an HT, to a shack on your back, and/or your mobile set up. The program is to get you to think of what you should have and why your kit will be different then someone else.

The monthly ARES meetings are held monthly the Saturday after the RARC monthly Tuesday meeting. These meetings are currently replacing the BUG meetings previously held at this time.

[Updated 5/5/2022]
“The Olmsted EOC has completed the service work on the 147.255 repeater and wants us to give it a good test run to verify it is working as it should. We will begin using it in the normal Sunday ARES net rotation, Echolink is back on that repeater and it is again the primary skywarn net repeater.”
– W0STV / Steve Wiebke

Anyone who experiences any continued issues with the 147.255 repeater, please notify W0STV.

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There have been some resent issues found on the 147.255 repeater. Olmsted County has been made aware of this so it can be fixed. In the meantime, please use the club’s repeaters for all activity:

[Primary] 146.82 PL 100Hz
[Secondary] 147.625 Analog FM PL 100Hz – this is a Yaesu System Fusion repeater, it does Analog and Digital. Turn on TSQL with a 100Hz tone to mute out any digital activity on a non-YSF capable radio. Please watch your s-meter or other busy indicators before transmitting to avoid doubling over a digital transmission.

Please watch Groups.io for further updates on the situation and notices to when the 255 repeater is fixed.