ARRL Field Day 2022 is June 26-27. PKARC will be situated at Leavenworth’s VA Park just north of the VA Hospital atop the hill behind the Ford Dealership. Set up starts at 0830 hours. http://www.arrl.org/field-day The on-air event starts at 1300 hours Saturday and ends 1500 hours Sunday (local times). …

The “Winlink Challenge” has begun. Although the exercise will officially take place on Saturday, April 23rd from 0800-1000 hours, KS-LV-ARES Members may complete the challenge any time between now and 10:00 am Saturday, April 23rd. Instructions are provided below. KS-LV-ARES 2Q Test/Exercise “Winlink Challenge” Instructions The challenge includes a Peer-to-Peer …

Our 2Q ARES Test/Drill on Saturday morning, April 23, 2022, will be a Winlink Challenge designed to cover five (5) tasks in the Proficiency/Skill area of our ARES Task Books: Write and send an ICS-213 Proficiency using ICS Forms Operate a VHF digital message station Operate a VHF digital messaging …

All interested KCHEART participants are welcome to join us for the KCHEART Annual Meeting which will be held by Zoom call this Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 10:00 am – 12:00 noon. We will have the Zoom call on the big screen in Fellowship Hall, Pilgrim Community Church (where Pilot …

Leavenworth County ARES® members and interested Radio Amateurs attended a Table Top Exercise (TTX) on Saturday, January 22, 2022 at the Leavenworth County EOC in Leavenworth. Beginning promptly at 0900 hours, the session lasted until 11:15 am. Although we had three original scenarios, discussion was excellent and we managed to …

Leavenworth ARES® 2021 Year-in-Review is now available in Draft form for member review and feedback. Contact Rick, NJØP if you are interested in receiving a copy. It is a 3.5 MB PDF file. If no requests are received by Jan 10, the draft will be declared final. Otherwise, reviewers have …

ARES® Emergency Communicator Individual Task Books just received a major upgrade: Centralized electronic bookkeeping. Instead of members having to keep a paper record and print the book for sign-off for each task completion, only educational achievements need be presented. The Emergency Coordinator (EC) uses a database to keep track of …

A big thanks to the great group of Leavenworth ARES members who participated in the October 2nd KC Metro Simulated Emergency Test (SET). See the graphic that appeared in the recent edition QRZ! The official wrap-up report is due by end of October. Meanwhile, see the list of 2022 Tests …

Metropolitan Kansas City will simulate a major emergency event scenario on Saturday morning, October 2, 2021. Usually emergencies give no warning, so it is important to exercise how we will respond when the real thing hits. Emergencies are a come-as-you-are events. Through regular exercise, how to properly prepare and respond …

MECC 2021 SET on October 2, 2021 takes center stage. The Mid-America Regional Council decided last week to postpone the simulated Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attack exercise due to the increased pressure on hospitals with the recent surge in COVID cases. As hospitals respond to real-world challenges, the exercise has been …