Don, KB8LWL, a Net Control Operator for the District Net for many years, became a Silent Key on Saturday, 11 September. In addition to his active participation with the West Central Ohio Amateur Radio Club, he was an also a member of the Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management EMCOMM Team. he will be sorely missed.
The following information was provided by his Son-in-Law, Mark, KC8TZY:
N8QHV’s 1 September training was on Engaging with Disaster Citizen Science.
N8QHV’s 11 August training was on NIMS Alert 31-21: Resource Typing Updates for CERT Positions.
The District 3 ARES website is back online after experiencing issues associated with being transferred to a new hosting site and Domain Registrar. Unfortunately the updates means that a lot of the code used (WordPress Themes, Plug-ins and Widgets) no longer work.
So, please bear with us was we re-construct the site.
Fred Stone, W8LLY, long time Greene County ARES EC, District 3 ARES EC, and a fixture of the Miami Valley amateur radio community became a Silent key on 26 July 2021. He leaves a large gap in our community that will hard, if not impossible to fill.
For anyone who was unable to attend the National Weather Service (NWS) presentation on the May 2019 tornado outbreak, below is the link to watch. The Video runs 2:11 (two hours and 11 minutes), but is very informative.
Inside The Outbreak: A Look Back at the Memorial Day 2019 Tornado Outbreak
Greene and Montgomery County ARES have been providing Winlink training over the past year during their weekly Digital Training Nets.
Those training sessions have been posted individually on the District 3 ARES website and are now consolidated into a single PDF document that is available for download.
The original training sessions were provided as ICS-213 messages transmitted over VHF frequencies using FLDIGI modes, usually MT63-2KL. This meant that the information was limited to text only. The PDF document incorporates screen prints and links to additional information.
Please feel free to distribute this information to anyone interested in learning about Winlink.
The Preble county VHF repeater (145.470Mhz (-) 100pl) is back on air with a new Fusion repeater. We are capable of analog and digital.
The backup repeater is on UHF (442.900Mhz (+) 100hz pl) and is a Fusion repeater also.
All ARES and Skywarn operations are to switch back to VHF.
We would appreciate some signal checks around the district.
73,
NJ8BB
Gary Hollenbaugh
ARES™ EMERGENCY COORDINATOR
PREBLE CO, Ohio
