The Park County Radio Club will be offering CPR/AED (Automated External Defibrillator), First Aid and BBP (Blood Born Pathogen) Class. This is a certification class. You will walk away with the certifications necessary to perform CPR, use an AED on a Cardiac Patient; plus basic First Aid and Blood Born Pathogen training as it relates…
Continue Readingby WD0GPS When I first got my license, friends acknowledged that while it might be a nice hobby (for you old retired guys), the question always asked was – “but what is it good for”? When I gave the standard EMCOM answer and got the standard “thats what cell phones are for” answer, I knew…
Continue ReadingA few weeks back on our R2D3 Weekly net our NCS question of the week from KE0RWC was “Do you practice the wilderness protocol?”. This prompted some discussion around monitoring frequencies and best practices. To aid in further education we have added some references to help. The ARES Calendar has been expanded to include the…
Continue ReadingOur local ARES group recently got an NVIS (Near Vertical Incident Skywave) antenna for tactical HF communication within the County. During a couple of test drives of the antenna with the group we tested from 6 meters to 80 meters just to see where we could poke holes. As with all things HF, and perhaps…
Continue ReadingThis is to provide a quick reference to which channels are in which zones for the PCRC Anytone code plug maintained by W0DFU. We have had several users ask for a better way to visualize which channels are in which zone. This spreadsheet provides 2 tabs. The first is the zones on the horizontal axis…
Continue ReadingWe have many users with Anytone HT’s that are using the code plug put together by W0DFU. With this code plug we have mapped certain radio functions to the customizable buttons on the radio. This has caused some confusion for a few folks who do not program their radios or interact with the code plug…
Continue ReadingThere’s been a lot of talk about Go Bags or Go Kits with the recent events in Fairplay. There were multiple highway closures during a recent snow storm that stranded a lot of commuters in Fairplay which heavily taxed local resources. Our ARES R2D3 Assistant Coordinator KE0KOO had done some followup research and dug up…
Continue ReadingDistrict 6 has been reorganized as Region 2 District 3 (R2D3). R2D3 is now restructured and continues as a non-profit (501C3) As a non-profit we are proceeding with fund raising efforts for a new portable ARES Station and will be exploring possible programs and services that we can offer to the community. Our next meeting…
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