2023 Simulated Emergency Test

QST QST QST – Calling All Radio Amateurs This bulletin is for all Radio Amateurs residing in or near Leavenworth County. On Saturday morning, October 7, 2023, Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®), will be conducting a Simulated Emergency Test concurrent with many other counties in the Kansas City metropolitan area.  The …

UTM Grid vs. Magnetic North

The 2023 Simulated Emergency Test will require the determination of a magnetic angle from the location of a radio direction finder to a transmitted radio signal. Then, the observation must be plotted on a grid-based map as part of an area-of-interest polygon. Since Magnetic North (MN) is not always the …

Direction Finding Test #2 – Update

Just a reminder: For those participating in the July 6, 2023 Direction-Finding Test #2 [Pre-SET 2023], there will be a short instructional briefing …

CQ Field Day! June 24

CQ is the Radio Amateur (ham) shortcut meaning calling anyone out there. We’re calling CQ to anyone interested in Amateur Radio and …

2023 ARES Training Schedule

Date QTR Type Activity JAN 21 1 Table-Top Exercise ICS 217A Communications Resource Availability Worksheet development. Creating our list of 99 channels …

KCHEART Meeting

KCHEART to hold Annual Meeting on Jan 28, 2023 UPDATE (Jan 20, 2023) The Annual Meeting of KCHEART will take place at …

Veterans Day Parade

We have nine (9) Radio Amateurs signed up to provide auxiliary communications support to the Leavenworth Veterans Day Parade Committee for the …

SET 2020 Successfully Completed!

Thanks to everyone who participated in “Operation: Finding Mano”, our 2022 Simulated Emergency Test (SET) scenario. As of October, 17th, the After …

DEPLOYMENT PACKAGE A

Will you have everything you need to respond effectively to the KC Metro 2022 Simulated Emergency Test (SET)? Take a look at: …