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ARES Meeting, Wed. Mar. 10
Written by ve3rhj   
Monday, 08 March 2010
The next scheduled meeting of Grey County ARES is Wednesday, March 10th, 7 p.m., at the United Way Office, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. This is the blue building on the corner, just east of the post office and across the street from Knox United Church.
 
ARES Meeting, Wed. February 10
Written by ve3rhj   
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
The next scheduled meeting of Grey County ARES is Wednesday, February 10th, 7 p.m., at the United Way Office, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. This is the blue building on the corner, just east of the post office and across the street from Knox United Church.

Brad, VE3RHJ will give a presentation on "Electronic Design Automation for Hobbyists." Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) software for circuit schematics and for printed-circuit-board layout is now available at no cost. Brad will demonstrate how the open-source package KiCad is used to design a circuit board.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 February 2010 )
 
ARES Meeting - Wed. January 13
Written by ve3rhj   
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
The next scheduled meeting of Grey County ARES is Wednesday, January 13th, 7 p.m., at the United Way Office, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. This is the blue building on the corner, just east of the post office and across the street from Knox United Church.

No presentation is scheduled.
 
ARES Meeting - Wed. November 11
Written by ve3rhj   
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Our Grey County ARES meeting on Wed. November 11th will be held at the West Grey Municipal Building, 402813 Grey Road 4. The meeting will run from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Fire Chief Phil Schwartz will be providing a presentation on the Durham tornado and the town's emergency response. We will also have an opportunity to become familiar with the Emergency Operation Centre and the ARES station set up in the Municipal Offices.

It has been quite some time since we've held a meeting outside of Owen Sound, so let's take advantage of this opportunity while the weather co-operates.

Please enter by the back door of the building. See you there.
 
Simulated Emergency Test 2009
Written by ve3lkd   
Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Grey County ARES held its Simulated Emergency Test on Saturday October 17th, 2009.  The scenario for this exercise was a December ice storm in Grey County that led to long power outages, caused many municipalities
and the county to declare emergencies and to set up warming centres for residents who had no heat .  An  H1N1 flu outbreak added to the background of this scenario. 

The exercise began on the third day of power and communications outages.   For this exercise, all of the local repeaters were out of service, either from lack of power or from antenna damage caused by ice buildup.  All communication was done using 2m simplex or HF.  The EOC at the Grey County Building in Owen Sound, the EOC at the Owen Sound firehall, the Durham EOC at Rockwood Terrace and the EOC at the Hanover firehall were activated for this exercise.

Participating in the exercise were Jon VA3CIC, Dan VE3CLD, Fred VA3STG and Bob VE3LKD.  No other agencies were involved in the exercise.  All the messages were pre-arranged and timed for release, but the ARES operators had to put them in standard NTS radiogram format.

During the  three hour exercise, a total of 19 messages were sent and 19 were received.  Since the exercise forced us to use VHF for local messages and HF for longer distances, some of the messages required 3 hops to be delivered.  This generated another 18 receive-and-forward messages.  Each station averaged 14 messages during the exercise.  This exercise did not include any out-of-county messages,  or contact with provincial EMO.  We did make one contact with the 40m COMSONT net during an unsuccessful attempt to switch our HF link from the 80m band to the 40m band.

While all of the EOC locations involved in this exercise do have emergency power sources, we did not use them for this exercise.

 This exercise was also the first to include the newly  equipped EOC station in the Grey County Building.

We wish to thank all the ARES participants listed above, Gina Greig from Grey County and Terry McDonald, Deputy Fire Chief in Hanover for coming in on a Saturday morning so we could use their stations, and the Fire Chiefs, CEMCs and facility administrators who opened their facilities and hospitality to us for this exercise.

 Bob Droine, ARES Emergency Co-ordinator, Grey County

 
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Emergency Contacts
To activate Grey County ARES for an emergency contact any of the following:
Emergency Coordinator
Bob Droine, VE3LKD
519-371-2257 day/night
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Alternate E.C. and Assistant E.C. (East)
Bob Zapf, VA3RWZ
519-538-2395 home
705-441-0040 cell
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Assistant E.C.
Jon Skagfeld, VA3CIC
519-376-3584 

Net Controller Schedule

2m net every Monday evening at 8:00 pm local time.

1 Feb - VA3CIC (146.940)
8 Feb - VE3LKD (145.290)
15 Feb - VE3RHJ (145.370)
22 Feb - VA3CIC (146.640)

1 Mar - VE3RHJ (146.940)
8 Mar - VE3LKD (145.290)
15 Mar - VA3CIC (145.370)
22 Mar - VE3RHJ (146.640)
29 Mar - VE3LKD (145.290)

Grey County Repeaters
Goring OFF AIR147.105(+)
156.7 Hz tone
Berkeley145.290(-)
156.7 Hz tone
Blue Mountain145.370(-)
118.8 Hz tone
Owen Sound (East)146.640(-)
156.7 Hz tone  
Paisley*

146.730(-)
156.7 Hz tone 

Meaford*146.895(-)
156.7 Hz tone 
Owen Sound*146.940(-)
156.7 Hz tone 
Collingwood

146.790(-)

* linked repeaters