Archive for January, 2009

Ending first month of the New Year with appointments.

Jan 31

Posted by KB0NHW in District D | Comments off

As I have stated in my meetings with some of the membership and also in my letter that was sent out one of my goals this year is to have appointments to positions within the ARES® chain of command. It is my pleasure to recognize the following new appointee’s:
Ken Baremore, W0KRB – District D DEC
William Frank, AC0JK – District D: Lawrence County EC
Jim Dobkins, KC0OKO – District D: Webster County EC
William Gilmore, KC0TCF – District D: Greene County AEC
John Elmore, KC0ZOY – District D: Greene County AEC for Liaison to Emergency Management

Congratulations to all of the new appointee’s. Please give them your full support.

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DEC Receives Award of Excellence upon his “retirement”

Jan 31

Posted by KB0NHW in District D | Comments off

At the recent hamfest held in Springfield an Award of Excellence was presented to Dean Bickford K0PHI upon his “retiring” as District D DEC for the past 18 years. Ken Baremore  W0KRB took over for Dean who had recommended as his replacement. Dean will stay on and remain the EC for Stone County. I am sure that his wealth of knowledge and experience will be called upon in the future. Please share in your congratulations to Dean for his outstanding service to his community.

SEC thanks everyone for support in the Ice Storm event.

Jan 30

Posted by KB0NHW in District E, Missouri ARES | Comments off

I would like to thank everyone for their show of support during the ongoing response to the Ice Storm that we had last week in the south east part of the state. I have been in contact with Larry Ford N0RIC the District EC. One of the main reasons we as the amateur community were not heavily involved was due to the infrastructure of cell phones and normal telephone service not being disrupted on a wide scale. Larry reports that power is being slowly restored, however it may still be up to a week for most of the customers to be back on line. We have some lessons learned from this and when the normalcy is restored I will compile and share with the membership. I do appreciate the stations that contacted me to see if assistance can be provided, not only within the state but the surrounding states that were affected.

73’s Dennis Gedeon KB0NHW

SEC to attend ARES Forum located at Springfield Hamfest.

Jan 10

Posted by KB0NHW in District D | Comments off

The SEC wil be attending a ARES forum located at the Springfield Hamfest this coming Saturday the 10th of January. The forum starts at 12:30pm. This is a good chance to meet with and discuss issues that are ARES related within the area. The hamfest information is listed below. See you there.

Hamfest information is as follows:
January 10, 2009 Doors open at 8:00am
ARES meeting is at 12:30pm

Location:
Faith Lutheran Church
1517 East Valley Water Mill Road
Springfield MO

Driving direction: North on Glenstone over Hwy I-44 to the 2nd stoplight. Turn left on Valley Water Mill Road (Farm Rd 102). Church is on the north side about 400 feet from intersection.
You can also go to W0omd.org for a map link for directions.

SEC addresses Missouri membership

Jan 5

Posted by KB0NHW in Missouri ARES | Comments off

Happy 2009 to the Missouri ARES membership! I wish that everyone has a safe, healthy and Happy New Year. To start off the new year on a good note I have sent out a SEC letter which talks about where we have been, where we are today and goals laid out in a three year plan. All DEC’s have this document with instructions to forward this on down to the EC’s who in turn will make sure that every member in their group has the document. This letter was also sent out as a courtesy to the SEC’s from the surrounding states, leadership officials for civil air Patrol, Red Cross, Salvation Army and the MARS program. This is to show that we are open to using all resources to augment our plan and to become a resource if needed by these organizations. My main goal is to avoid duplication of effort. If you need to see a copy of the document you can go here.