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CHECK CALENDAR FOR EVENTS Ohio Valley ARES/RACES Net Every Thursday at 8:30 P.M. Repeater 146.715 SOARA -- ARES Meeting Monday, July 21, at 7:00 P.M. 515 Park Ave., Ironton Boyd-Greenup County, KY ARES net meets every Monday at 9:00 P.M. Repeater 146.940 SOARA -- ARES at Lawrence Co Fair, Proctorville, 2:00 P.M. Tues. July 8th. |
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AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY SERVICE
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WELCOME TO OUR SOARA ARES HOMEPAGE
Our Club is the Southern Ohio Amateur Radio Association, Inc, a non-profit ham radio club. The official abbreviation is SOARA. We are also Amateur Radio Emergency Service, (ARES) We have monthly meetings on the third Monday of every month at 7:00 P. M. The location of the meetings is in the rear room of 911/EMA Building, 515 Park Ave., Ironton, Ohio, Lawrence County. During our on the air activities, and for the ID on our repeater 146.715, we use our FCC licensed call of
W8SOE. W 8 Southern Ohio Emergency.
The Club's purposes as stated in our by-laws are:
A. To advance the art of Amateur Radio.
B. To provide, in the public interest, reliable communication in times of emergencies and disasters.
C. To promote good fellowship between amateurs and would-be amateurs.
D. To cultivate the good will of the public.
All amateur radio operators and interested folks are welcome to attend our meetings. There are no restrictions as to sex, race, color, age, religion, or national origin. We have members from Lawrence and Scioto Counties in Ohio, Boyd, Greenup, Carter, Lawrence, and Magoffin Counties in Kentucky, Wayne and Cabell Counties in West Virginia.
Anyone interested in becoming a ham and needing help and info, please attend our meetings. Dues are discounted 100 percent, no dues.
CLUB OFFICERS FOR 2008
President Jim Rowe, N8TVO
Vice President Dave Spears, KD8CRX
Secretary LeRoy Phelps, KC8VSF
Treasurer Ken Massie, WN8F
Trustee Steve Sheers, W8AFX
Grant Officer, Charles Callicoat, KB8CJB
Repeater Fund Coordinator Arthur J. Pierson, N8LRO
Field Day Coordinator LeRoy Phelps, KC8VSF
Emergency Coordinator Eric Kuhn, K8UHN
Assistant Emergency Coordinator Jim Rowe, N8TVO
Assistant Emergency Coordinator Arthur J. Pierson, N8LRO
Public Information Officer Ken Massie, WN8F
Memorial Day Parade Communications Coordinator, Jim Rowe, N8TVO
Repeater 146.715 Net Manager, Jim Rowe, N8TVO
At least 4 pages of photos and comments on the hams who helped in the Memorial Day parade are now complete.
If you find mistakes on this web site, please consider that they may be there for a purpose. We try to write something for everyone and some people are always looking for mistakes.
WORKLOAD
The wording under the calendar is small. Click on this wording and go to the calendar with events for the current month and the following months. Once at the calendar you can advance to the following months. We will add to this later.
PUBLIC SERVICE
We are a volunteer group of ham radio operators dedicated to providing communications to our communities during emergencies and disasters. When cell phones and the communications of other agencies become overloaded and fail, Amateur Radio Communications can get the message through locally or to practically any place on earth. Our volunteer group also provides communications for the Ironton - Lawrence County Memorial Day Parade, (every year since 1989) walk-a-thons, runs, and other worthy events. SOARA -- ARES ham radio operators participate in drills with the local Emergency Management Agency and have a very good working relationship with EMA Director Michael Boster. They also can work with other agencies such as law enforcement, fire, and Red Cross. SOARA -- ARES has a child search program and have been trained by a deputy from the Sheriffs department. In the event of a child abduction or a missing person, hams could be dispatched to areas like the riverbanks, strip mine area, lake areas etc. Their mobile and portable stations would allow them to communicate their findings back to the Emergency Operations Center. Our ham radio operators provide their own equipment, such as mobile radios, base stations, hand-held radio, and antennas. These can amount to thousands of dollars. On our base stations we can talk all over the world but for local communications, the frequencies we must use for local operations, repeaters are needed to provide close-by communications in our hilly regions. Once a signal is sent to a repeater, the repeater amplifies this signal and sends it back out, thus giving much greater range. Repeaters are very expensive, we need to replace one of our repeaters and we have asked merchants, agencies, members, individuals, industries, and others for help. We wish to THANK EVERYONE who has contributed to our repeater fund, your help is greatly appreciated. Hopefull within the next few months we will have a new repeater operating on the frequency of 146.610, W8SOE. The location of this repeater will be in the Northern section of Lawrence County. Also located at this same location is a Amateur repeater, W8SOE, on the frequency of 444.625. In another section of our county we have a repeater on the frequency of 146.715, W8SOE. When we link these repeaters it will give us communication ability to cover all of the county and then some during emergencies and disasters. We still need additional funds, if anyone can contribute, and any amount will be appreciated, make check to SOARA and mail to SOARA Treasurer P.O. Box 4684, Ironton, OH 45638> 
