Squaw Island Amateur Radio Club

Our first meeting physically together since the pandemic began. Outdoors and well social-distanced at the Ontario County EOC. Great to see everyone!

ARMY MARS COMEX EXERCISE - JULY 20-24, 2020. Dates, times and MARS member call sign that will be transmitting a CQ MARS on 60 meters. Hopefully some amateur radio operators will be available to answer the CQ and provide the information that will be requested. At this point, no official order has been sent out so we don't know what information is going to be asked, no different than if this was a real emergency.

Members of the Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) will conduct an HF skills exercise July 20 - 24 to hone their operating skills and messaging-handling capa...bilities. MARS members will be reaching out to the amateur radio community via the 60 meters Channel 1 Net (5330.5 kHz dial) twice a day, the SATERN HF net (14.265 MHz), and by contacting various stations via HFLink throughout the exercise. Participating MARS members will be requesting assistance with collecting county status information as well as airport weather information, called METARs. MARS members will also be passing ICS 213 messages to numerous Department of Defense (DoD), federal, and amateur radio addressees. This exercise will be announced via WWV at 00:10 and via WWVH at 00:50 starting on or about July 13. WWV and WWVH listeners will be asked to take an online listener survey. This HF radio training event will not impact regular communications. A Department of Defense program, MARS organizes and trains amateur radio volunteers to operate in military radio networks to support HF radio contingency communications. Among other missions, MARS provides communication support to civil authorities and assists in establishing normal communication under emergency conditions. -- Thanks to Paul English, Chief, Army MARS See more

Club Breakfast this morning, 8:00am at the Villager Restaurant, 245 S. Main St., Canandaigua, NY 14424. See you there!

Hello all, Just a reminder to set aside Saturday, November 9 at 8am at the Villager Restaurant, 245 S. Main St, Canandaigua, for our next Breakfast get together. All are welcome, but if you can come and have not let me know yet, please do so I can alert the restaurant if necessary. 73 Tom Sanders, KB2NCI... Squaw Island Amateur Radio Club Ontario County ARES/RACES www.siarc.us Ham Radio: Service, Science, Skill See more