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Hospital Coalition Exercise Announced

On Friday, October 25th, 0800-1100 hours, hospitals in the Kansas City region will test their response capabilities and Amateur Radio is part of the test. We have been asked to support both Saint John Hospital and Providence Medical Center. The Emergency Preparedness Regional Coordinator for Prime Healthcare plans to simulate …

Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)

Initial steps have been planned in order for possible local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) establishment in Leavenworth County. The Office of Emergency Management announced today that two courses are being made available from the Kansas Department Emergency Management (KDEM) in Leavenworth to develop Program Managers and Trainers. This appears …

Winlink Message Relay Test – I

Download the two files listed below and install them in your Winlink Template folder per the exercise instruction sheet. Right-click when hovering over the file name and save file to your computer. If you left-click, the html file will try to open but will not work. The txt file will …

Reminder: Net LOG Instructions

Our nets are well attended and very expertly conducted. Logs are kept on Net Control Manager which makes it easy to recall what happened and tally volunteer hours for monthly reports. However, in order for data collection to work efficiently, nets must follow a naming convention. This is a reminder …

What’s in your Field Day Kit?

ARRL Field Day 2024 is June 22-23. PKARC will be situated at Leavenworth’s VA Park just north of the VA Hospital atop the hill across the street from the Wagon’ Trails Dog Park. Set up starts at 0830 hours. http://www.arrl.org/field-day The on-air event starts at 1300 hours Saturday and ends …

Crossband Repeater Test

On Sunday, April 14, 2024, our Sunday Evening ARES Information & Training Net will meet on Golden-99 Channel 8. This channel is also labeled CBR-A-USER, meaning it is Cross-Band Repeater (CBR) user set-up Alpha. If your Golden-99 is correctly set up, your radio will transmit on 446.425 MHz with a …

Net on Super Bowl Sunday

Yes. There will be a net on Super Bowl Sunday. Same ARES time. Same ARES channel. See you on 145.33 (-) 151.4 Hz tone at 1930 hours today, Sunday, February 11, 2024. Feel free to keep one eye on the game, but, keep both ears to the radio. There will …

Net Management Menu Added

Our January 2024 training topics were about net management. When taking on a net management role (NS, ANCS, LOG, and TNG), you will now be able to click faster to get the guidance you want. Net operations and management are now listed under Operations in the menu. Moving your mouse …