ARES® Continues Move Toward Enhanced Training, Paperless Reporting

ARES® Continues Move Toward Enhanced Training, Paperless Reporting

As part of upgrades to the ARES® program, ARRL will phase out traditional hard-copy report forms later this year in favor of an online system, ARES® Connect — a new volunteer management, communication, and reporting system. The system (in beta testing since March in four ARRL sections with large ARES organizations) will allow ARES members to log information for ARRL Field Organization handling but does not change how ARES serves partner organizations. ARES training also is due for enhancement. Continue reading →

Field Day Information

Clay County Amateur Radio Emergency Service
and
Orange Park Amateur Radio Club
will hold the 2018 Field Day event

WHEN: June 23th @ 2:00pm until June 24th @2:00pm

WHERE: Orange Park High School, 2301 Kingsley Ave., Orange Park

WHO: Open House — Open to the Public

For information on Field Day, brochures, videos, etc., go to http://clayfieldday.info

To sign-up to help and work in the Field Day CLICK HERE.

Go-Kits are a “GO!”

Thank you to John Ward and the Clay County Department of Emergency Management.  The equipment for our Go-Kits arrived and this morning Joe Bassett (W1WCN) and Scott Roberts (KK4ECR) assembled the kits.  Next step is to get the radios programmed, then we will spend time training on the assembling and use of each radio. Continue reading →

Amateur Radio Week Proclamation

Amateur Radio Week – June 18 – 24

On Tuesday, June 5, Scott Roberts (KK4ECR) attended the Orange Park Town Hall meeting.  At this meeting, the Mayor of the Town of Orange Park, Mayor Gary Meeks, presented the Orange Park Amateur Radio Cub and Clay County Amateur Radio Emergency Service with a proclamation declaring the week of June 18 – 24 as Amateur Radio Week.  You can view that proclamation HERE.