Pikes Peak Amateur Radio Emergency Service

PPARES Emergency Coordinator Transition

tomas — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:29:18 +0000

Rob Roller, N7LV, has taken over as the new EC for Colorado AR#ES District 14. Rob brings years of emergency communications experience to the job and will provide great leadership.

I would like to thanks all that supported my in my tenure as EC.

Tomas Dawson
KC0NRZ

2009 Skywarn Scripts

tomas — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:30:17 +0000

The 2009 Skywarn season scripts have been added to the Skywarn page.

April 28 2009 Tuesday Night Net EC Comments

tomas — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:17:06 +0000

I’m sure that many of you have been following the current swine flu outbreak with concern and interest.

There are currently 64 confirmed cases in the US with the highest concentration in NY City.

If you are in personal contact with people that have been in one of the areas that the flu is known to be present be aware of their health condition.

As we discussed in the last membership meeting this is a good time to be sure your personal emergency kit is ready.

To put this in perspective during the usual US flu season there are normally over 36000 deaths.

Note that your best defense against this flu and any other contagion in good personal hygiene practices.

- Hand Washing

- Maintain 3 – 6’ personal space if you are in a public space.

- Use hand sanitizer on a REGULAR basis.

I have been updating the PPARES website with many pertinent links covering this swine flu outbreak.

Fuse Information

tomas — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:24:37 +0000

Here is a good document on fuses: Fuse Information

Swine Flu Situation Page

tomas — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:18:34 +0000

Links to a site that consolidates all information feeds available.

April 2009 Membership Meeting

tomas — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:20:54 +0000

We had a good meeting this last Monday with a discussion of personal emergency preparedness. There was a small turn out with about 14 people. I would like to see more people attending these meetings. I have posted the presentation here: April 2009 Membership Meeting.

Sunday Morning State ARES NET

tomas — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:10:37 +0000

IRLP Comes to the state wide Sunday morning ARES net.

We have had problems accessing the state ares net on Sundays due to Colorado Connection repeater issues in Colorado Springs for some time.
David Markham, SEC, has implemented a change in the net so state wide ARES groups can start using IRLP to access the net.

I Colorado Springs we have permission from CMRG to use the 147.345 repeater to access the net on Sunday mornings. Connect to node
9871 to access the net.

When participating in the net we have been asked to pause between transmissions.
A 5 seconds in between transmissions will allow the repeaters and Internet relays top function well.

Participation in this net is not mandatory, however, it is a great place to learn about state wide ARES activities.

January 2008 Membership Meeting

tomas — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:20:47 +0000

For the January 2008 membership meeting we discussed HAM related PC applications. Listed here are the applications that I discussed.

APRS:

WinAPRS – Windows based APRS display application

APRSpoint – Current APRS application based on Microsoft Mappoint

Packet

Packlink – Winlink client application

Airmail – Winlink client application

Winpack – PPARES Recommended VHF/UHF packet client

Outpost – Another packet client

Web Browser

Firefox – Mozilla basede web browser

Text Editor

Ultraedit – Very robust text editor

Weather

Weather Display – Robust weather station software. Handles MANY weather stations

Interwarn – Weather alert client

Stormlab – NOAA Radar client

GPS Management

GPSgate – GPS data stream repeater

Satellite

Nova – Satellite tracking software

June 2008 Membership Meeting

tomas — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:47:52 +0000

June 2008 Membership Meeting PDF

May 2008 Membership Meeting

tomas — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:46:02 +0000

May 2008 Membership Meeting PDF