Collier County FL ARES/RACES Page

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Sponsored by Collier County Emergency Management
Naples, Florida

RACES Callsign WC4AAH

Collier County ARES/RACES consists of a corps of dedicated Amateur Radio volunteers
who meet and train regularly to be ready to serve the people of Southwest Florida

New! APRS Ops: Tour the Carnestown ARES/RACES APRS Digipeater site!

2000 Hurricane related radio frequencies

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KD4VRZ, KD4DZW & K4GP check the SWR on the new 40/75 meter
dipole, built in the field during a Mobile Command Center
training exercise.
Image by Peter Pye, KD4LXZ

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Collier County SKYWARN

KG5QD's Proposed APRS Protocol for Weather Information

Online ARES Registration (for Collier County ARES only at this time!)

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Miami Hamboree (February 2 - 3, 2002)

Orlando 'Hamcation' (February 9 - 10, 2002)

Sarasota Hamfest (January 2002)

EOC Communications Systems

2 meter repeater,
controllers, DVR

Voice Repeater - WB2WPA/R
147.030 (+600)
400 watts ERP
(Use 136.5 Hz CTCSS if in tone access mode)

443.700 (+5 MHz)
Approximately 300 watts ERP

Both repeaters have an open emergency autopatch, closed user patch
(registered ARES/RACES members only.)
Visitors may request that a member place a call for them.

COMING SOON (to both repeaters): NOAA Weather Radio Alert Interface

Note: the 2 meter and 70 cm repeaters are normally in standalone configuration.
During emergency activations, scheduled nets and SKYWARN events, the
repeaters are linked. Special courtesy tones indicate
the mode of operation:

"Slow" Triple beep - Normal mode
"Fast" triple beep - Users functions off
CW "N" ( _ . ) - Net in progress
CW "E" ( . ) - Emergency activation in progress
CW "S" ( . . . ) - SKYWARN net in progress

WD4FFX's EOC Location Information File
ASCII || ASCII (zipped)
Excel file (zipped)

APRS Wide Digipeater/local weather - Naples, FL - WB2WPA-4 - 144.39/10.151 (lsb)

APRS Wide Digi - Carnestown, Florida - KG5QD-3 - 144.39
Now 50 watts at 270 feet!

Packet Radio BBS - WB2WPA-5
145.05
Naples

Home of the WXSVR
KG5QD's "Weather Server" Software, now under development

Packet users' mail address - callsign@wb2wpa.#nap.fl.usa.noam (packet radio ONLY: no internet email!)

Packet Node - ENAP/WB2WPA-2
User access - 145.05
Naples

Associated Systems

Packet Cluster/Node N1DL
User access - 145.07
North Naples

Voice Repeater - K4YHB/R - 146.67 (-600)
400 watts ERP
Naples
Sponsored by the Amateur Radio Association of SW Florida
(Repeater open, but 136.5 Hz CTCSS is required)
Latest Club Newsletter (PDF Format)

Voice Repeater - KA2WEU/R 146.985 (-600) - 443.750 (+5)
Both repeaters require 143.5 Hz CTCSS
Sponsored by KA2WEU
Marco Island

Collier County Emergency Net
Dale Huguley KG5QD has taken over as Collier County's ARES EC, after many long years
by Donn Brown W4RAZ. Our thanks to Donn for his years of service, and for staying
on as an assistant EC...and to Dale for stepping in to the role of EC!

	*Dale Huguley, KG5QD* *ARES Emergency Coordinator,* *SKYWARN Coordinator/NCS* *Collier County* *Listen to Dale's* *WXSVR Presentation at* *DCC 2000*
	*Donn Brown, W4RAZ* *Assistant ARES EC*
	*Jordan Mash, WB2QLP* *Assistant ARES EC*
	*Gary Randall, KD4VRZ* *Assistant ARES EC*
	*Don Mielke, WD4FLY* *Net Manager/NCS*
	*Glenn Niesen, KE4KTZ* *NCS*

Net Schedule
(All sessions preceded by 1050 hz alert tone test)

1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Tuesdays at 7 PM local time
WB2WPA/R (Primary) - K4YHB/R (Secondary)

Monthly Meeting

Second Tuesday of every month, 7:00 PM at the Collier County EOC,
3301 East Tamiami Trail - Administration Building

Everyone Welcome!

Additional Communications Capabilities

EOC Primary HF
ARES/RACES Station

2 HF stations - All amateur bands, MARS, one with phone patch
VHF - 2 meter FM, SSB - 1.3 KW ERP @ 160 feet, omni
UHF - 70 cm FM - 50 watt ERP @ 140 feet onmi

COMING SOON: WEFAX, ATV, SSTV, 9600 baud packet, remote receivers, 6 meter FM

Frequencies Monitored

3940 Southern Florida ARES (Nighttime)
7242 Southern Florida ARES (Daytime)
147.030 FM
443.700 FM
144.200 USB

Collier County ARES/RACES is also a prime support agency
for the state of the art Mobile Command Center
which is capable of supporting emergency operations anywhere it is needed.

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