UCARES

Title: April Interface
Location: North Annex
Description: Build it night – Pick your poison:
Copper J-Pole – Parts available from Lowes or Home Depot
Charge Controller or Voltage Regulator: Pick your favorite kit and bring it in.
Soundcard Packet: A list of kits is available at http://www.kc2rlm.info/soundcardpacket/1cablekit.htm. The ones that there will be working versions of at the interface are the RascalGLX kit and the \”Unified Microsystems SCI-6\” kit. Rascal has a nicer output to radio setup, SCI-6 has a nicer assembly process. Both work.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2011-04-05
End Time: 20:30

I recently received an e-mail from someone wanting to get more involved in emergency communications. I though I’d post a portion of my response since it might be useful to anyone visiting our site:

“If you are at all interested in emergency communications, and it sounds like you are, I highly recommend getting involved with ARES. The primary reason for that is the experience you would gain as a radio operator. As you could imagine, in any type of emergency, a HAM radio isn’t going to do anyone any good if there isn’t someone who knows how to use it, and where to tune to get the necessary information, or call for help.

Our ARES weekly training nets are designed to teach this. Additionally, the Utah County ARES (UCARES) participates in numerous inter-agency exercises and events to hone our skills, and to become familiar with the various agencies we would need to deal with in the event of an emergency. It’s important to us that the various public service agencies (police, fire, EMS, hospitals etc.) know who we are, and are familiar with us, and comfortable with our capabilities. If they don’t know us, or are unfamiliar with our capabilities, then we are of no use to them.”

Ham Radio’s play day is almost here!!! This year we have the chance to participate in the complete Field Day experience — for a full 24 hours! Start making your plans today to join us as we operate HF from the new Mulit-Agency Command Center (MACC) in the RC Willey parking lot 1200 hrs June 26th (Sat) through 1200 hrs June 27th (Sun). You can RSVP now by filling out this form, click on the link Field Day RSVP. You may email me with any questions scott@w1byu.net

73,

W1BYU

Title: AES
Location: North Annex
Description: December Interface will feature Bill Moyes N7IE, ARRL ORS, NTSD DRS who discuss National Trafficing. There will also be a hands on demonstration.
Start Time: 21:00
Date: 2009-12-08
End Time: 23:00

FCC Rules prohibit the use of HAM Radio where the operator has a pecuniary interest. There have been a number of discussion on this subject recently as to how that affects the operation of our EOC’s and the personnel who man those stations. This document provides some interesting insight. The Commercialization of Amateur Radio: The Rules, The Risks, The Issues (469)

Here are a few interesting excerpts:

If public safety is the principal beneficiary, then �97.1 is being fulfilled. If the entity itself and not the general public is the principal beneficiary, then they should be encouraged to use radio services other than Amateur Radio.

and

The FCC’s Rules do not prohibit the recreational use of Amateur Radio by employees at a station located in the workplace, including club stations.

It is a must read for anyone who plans to be involved in volunteer service using HAM radio. I highly recommend that all UCARES members take a few minutes and read through this to better understand the FCC and the ARRL’s standing on Part 97

-Tyler (N7TTP)

Title: State ARES/RACES Conference
Link out: Click here
Description: State ARES / RACES conference. If you\’re interested in being a working part of RACES and want to learn more about how they work at the state level, you should attend this conference. There is no cost for this conference. The conference will be held at the RedLion Hotel. You\’ll need to register online using the attached link.
Start Time: 9:00
Date: 2009-11-07
End Time: 14:00

On October 31st at 9:00 am, the Operations Section of the Utah
Department of Public Safety and the Utah Department of Homeland Security
have scheduled a State wide Simulated Emergency Training.

DPS/DHS is working to involve numerous different agencies so this event
should prove to be a very interesting exercise.

The exact details of the exercise have not yet been released. I believe
this is intentional since in the event of an actual emergency or
disaster, we would have very little to begin with.

What can we expect?

We have not yet been asked to man the EOC’s, however, don’t be surprised
if you are asked to report to your assigned EOC, and if your are
responsible for opening an EOC and cannot be available, you should make
plans with someone else assigned to your EOC who can open it in your
place. This call could come a week in advance, the night before, or 10
minutes after your needed. Please be ready.

Be ready to monitor the normal UCARES frequencies in case an emergency
NET is called. Those frequencies are:

147.340 +(100)

Possible back-up frequencies:

147.280 +(141.3)
146.460 (s)

NOTE: There may be multiple nets going on. Please listen to the net
control before checking in or asking a question. Is the repeater you’re
listening to a staffing net, info net, or is it something else?

How will you know if a net has been called? We have a number of ways to
alert ARES membership. E-mail, SMS pages, phone calls, or just
monitoring the 2M frequencies. Any or all of these could be used in the
event of an emergency.

-Tyler

Title: American Fork Steel Days parade
Location: American Fork Utah
Description: As part of Jason Hamner’s eagle project, he’s organizing communications support for this parade. He has asked UCARES members for volunteers. This won’t be an official UCARES event, but can be a great opportunity to show American Fork city what we have to offer so come help Jason out if you can.
Start Time: 8:00
Date: 2009-07-18
End Time: 12:00

Interface and First Ham Night will be June 23rd at 1900 hrs in room 2295 of the BYU Conference Center. Interface will include discussion about the Freedom Festival Parade. All of those planning on being in the parade need to be at this meeting. Those who are new to amateur radio, come and rub shoulders with those who have had different experiences, successes as well as down turns. Bring your radios and learn how to use them from others. We hope to see you there.

Clark Cox KA6PIZ, Interface Coordinator

June 23rd is the third Tuesday of the week which is set aside for New Ham night, but for June, this will be the Freedom Festival Interface.

This meeting will be at the BYU Conference Center at 1900 (7pm) in Rm 2295. We encourage all new hams to come and mingle with those participating in this , the biggest event UCARES supports each year. With seventy plus hams participating, it’s a great opportunity to practice your radio skills and have fun. The BYU Conference Center/Harmon Bldg is located east of the Marriott Center on University Parkway by 900 E. The road west of the Marriott Center (450 E), east of Miller Field, is closed so plan accordingly if you like to come up the hill from Bulldog Ave. We welcome all our recent new hams from the last test session and any new ARES members, or those interested in ARES, to join us and meet your Ut. Co. neighbors.

Talk in will be on the 147.34 repeater.