MC-ARES

Who Makes Up The Manatee County ARES

The MCESG is made up of Manatee County Amateur Radio operators dedicated to volunteering their time, equipment, and skills for emergency communications needs. This reserve of volunteers, working as one organization, provides communications for Manatee County Emergency Management during times of need.

Anyone, regardless of club or other Amateur Radio affiliations, with a sincere interest and desire to help the community with its emergency communication needs, is invited to become a part of the Manatee County - Amateur Radio Emergency Service.

Field Day 2013

coming soon!

June 22-23, 2013

Location: 5220 Lakewood Ranch Boulevard

Lakewood Ranch, FL

watch for details!

Manatee County ARES Net
every Monday Night 7:00pm
We will be providing
at least one(1) message

for training. Please use

the ICS213 form to copy

these training messages

please bring your copy

to the next ARES meeting.

1/11/2013

New website online!

ARES Net - Every Monday night at 7:00 p.m.

on the ARES repeater 147.195+ PL103.5

Meetings: Every 4th Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m.

Locations:
Red Cross on 59th Street
Red Cross in Lakewood Ranch
Manatee County Emergency Operations Center (EOC)

What Services Does MC-ARES Provide?

The primary MC-ARES objective is to provide backup communications services to Emergency Management during emergencies or disaster situations. This may consist of deploying operators to the Emergency Operations Center, the Red Cross, Emergency or Special Needs Shelters, or other locations that may need communications.

We also work with our local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program, to teach Communications and to encourage CERT members to become ham radio operators to assist their CERT teams and MC-ARES with communications.

Want To Help?

MC-ARES is always looking for additional team members. Are you interested? If you would like to help provide dedicated Emergency Communications assistance to our first responders and the residents of Manatee County, we can train you to become a skilled operator.

ARRL Field Day - June 22-23 2013
ARRL Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. Each year over 35,000 amateurs gather with their clubs, friends or simply by themselves to operate!

So join in the fun!

Location: 5220 Lakewood Ranch Boulevard Lakewood Ranch, FL

Time: beginning at 1800 UTC (2:00pm EST) Saturday and running through 2059 UTC (4:00pm EST) Sunday.

For more information please contact Ed Skalecki ni4mx@arrl.net