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The Osceola County Amateur Radio Emergency Service is committed to providing reliable Amateur Radio communications support to the Emergency Management Communications Assistance Team of the Osceola County Office of Emergency Management. Missions may be assigned to this unit in situations of an emergency nature or natural disaster anywhere within Osceola County or adjacent counties with which there is a Amateur Radio Emergency Service Mutual Assistance Team (ARESMAT) agreement. Additionally, Osceola County ARES may participate in non-emergency events as requested by event organizers, provided the services requested are within the unit's capabilities and in compliance with Federal Communications Commission Part 97 Rules.

Amateur Radio Testing

We will be holding a testing session for anyone interested on September 27th at 7:45PM. It will be held after our normal meeting which starts at 7PM. Location is the Osceola County EOC. To register please contact Harry at his email, hmk5685 [at] aol [dot] com

Upcoming Events

Next Meeting September 27th at 7PM. Pete Fountain will be doing a presentation about his DXpedition to the Dry Tortugas and RFI tracking. Randy Fox will be doing a presentation on Fox Hunting for the October 25th meeting at 7PM. Joe Kearns will be doing radio user training and Ham Radio Deluxe to acclimate people to using the radios in the EOC radio room. This will be conducted at the November 29th meeting. We will not have a meeting in December. January 31st meeting we will be collecting $10.00 annual dues for all members.

Field Day

We had a great field day! The Orange and Osceola teams did an outstanding job! Setup started around 0830 and was completed by 1030 with few issues. We installed one G5RV on the parking garage between the light poles. Two more dipoles were installed on the pneumatic mast in the side parking lot. We operated 4 HF stations of which one was PSK. We had a great deal of fun and comraderie. The food was great, and it was nice to work Field Day in the air conditioning!

145.350 Repeater Antenna Changed!

As of 6/17/2010 the 145.350 has a new antenna. It is the same make and model as the old one, and is performing much better. We suspect the phasing harness on the old antenna had gone bad, and initial results seem to confirm our suspicions. The last test performed at 436 and Pershing Ave, we had a 7 S-Unit signal and we were full quieting into the repeater. Initial results look positive. Give it a try! Joe/N4ZIQ

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