In conjunction with the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, along with many of our other core partners, next week (December 4-8) will be recognized as Winter Weather Preparedness Week in the state of Georgia. Though winter weather events…
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Digital Modes Survey
Please see information about a survey that Fayette County ARES is conducting about the use of digital modes. A link to this survey was also posted in gaares.groups.io. If you responded to…
Comments to FCC to Preserve 60m Band
Amateur friends, please read the attached document (from QST) and consider acting to make your comment heard with the FCC (if you haven’t already). Your comments are critical to keeping the access…
Changes to GA ARES Weekly Traffic Net
The Radiogram form, along with the normal ICS-213 and will now be part of the State Traffic Net. This additional form will provide variety for net participants in addition to becoming proficient…
NW District Winlink Packet Exercise
PURPOSE: This exercise is to practice passing Winlink messages via VHF packet and voice traffic via VHF/UHF for a “grid down” or “grid heavily impacted” scenario. To respond to this scenario, we will…
GA ARES Reporting
GA ARES activity reporting is being added to the website. Hover over graph items (the live graph; not the screenshot in this post) to display the underlying numbers. The first simple report…
GA ARES / AUXCOMM NVIS Exercise AAR
Fayette ARES Monthly Meeting Program: GA ARES / AUXCOMM NVIS Exercise AAR Thursday, November 9 · 8:00 – 9:00pm Time zone: America/New York Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/jhv-znpx-ufo Or dial:…
ARRL.net Email Address Issues
Messages sent to ARRL.net email addresses are experiencing issues because of security problems. Please see the original message from ARRL below. I just want to make everyone aware that the entire email…
New GA ARES Badge Design
The new badge design offers better readability for the operator’s name and callsign. The expiration date is the same as the current license expiration date in the FCC database. The badge does…
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