Southern Crescent Amateur Radio Club

Georgia ARES monthly report for July, 2010
Reported by:  Butts County EC, Buzz Kutcher, K3GWK

Total number of ARES members in your group is: 9
Change since last month: 0
Name of your Local ARES Net: Spaulding & Butts County Communicator
Training Net
Net Frequency: 146.910   -    88.5
Day of the week:  Sunday
Time of the Net: 17:45 Loca
Total of Nets this month: 4
NTS Liaison: GA ARES, GTN
Drills, Tests and Training sessions: 2
Drills, Tests and Training Man Hours: 17
Public Service Events: 1
Public Service Man Hours: 4
Emergency Operations: 1
Emergency Operations Man Hours: 3
Misc Activities: 0
Misc man hours: 0
TOTAL ARES OPERATIONS: 4
TOTAL ARES MAN HOURS: 29
Comments: HamCram scheduled for September.  MOU with Butts County to be  presented to the county BOC at their August meeting.

Don’t forget, this Sunday, at 4:00PM Local is the monthly Metro Atlanta District ARES NET on the 146.82 repeater of the Atlanta Radio Club.

Starting at 5:30 PM Sunday the ARES PSK 31 Net will Be held on 3.586 MHz

The Spalding/Butts EMCOMM Training Net follows at 5:45 PM   Operational repeater is the K4HYB on 146.910- PL 88.5.

The ARES HF phone net is on at 6 PM on 3.975 MHz along with the Wind-link Digital Net.

Also a reminder that the Georgia Traffic and Emergency Net (GTen) begins at 7:15 PM on 3.983.5 MHz

The July meeting will be at the Clayton E.O.C. building on the 27th of this month starting at 7PM. The Emergency Operations Center is located in the C. Crandle Bray Police Headquarters/Emergency Operations Center at the corner of N. McDonough Street and Georgia Highway 138 in Jonesboro.

We have requested with E.O.C. Henry County and have set up the August Meeting on the 24th of next month. Every thing  is a go for that. Pass the word.

Correct posting to FCC site is:

http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db0714/FCC-10-124A1.doc

The FCC has amended the rules concerning Amateur Radio operations in
emergency drills as follows:
“A station licensee or control station operator may participate on behalf of an employer in an emergency preparedness or disaster readiness test or drill, limited to the duration and scope of such test or drill, and operational testing immediately prior to such test or drill.  Tests or drills that are not government-sponsored are limited to a total time of one hour per week, except that no more than twice in any calendar year, they may be conducted for a period not to exceed 72 hours.”  See
http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db0714/FCC-10-124A1.pdf
We hope that the restrictions here will prevent commercial use of Amateur Radio or our equipment by employers.  Keep tuned as ARRL  studies implications of this new ruling.    Gene W4AYK

Gentlemen,

Let’s take a break next Sunday from our monthly District Atlanta ARES.  Our attendance is likely to be lower than normal due to the fact that folks are celebrating our freedoms with 4^th of July activities.  So everyone can now fire up the grill, grab a beverage of their choice, light up a sparkler or two and celebrate the 4^th without having to remember to take a break at 4:00PM to check in to the NET.

That lets Cherokee County off the hot seat for July’s Net, but we’ll give Steve Reynolds, W4CNG, an early Christmas present and have Cherokee County cover the December 5th Net.

We’ve all just finished a long hot Field Day weekend, we have the HURREX 2010 drill you might be participating in this week, so let’s enjoy the holiday.

If each of you will reply to me (not a reply all) so I’ll know that I haven’t missed anyone and then let your members know, maybe we can keep the number of folks looking for the Net next Sunday to a minimum.

Everyone have a safe and enjoyable 4^th,

Steve G./N4SEG