The NWS – Shreveport Office has released its 2023 Storm Spotter Training schedule. It includes in-person training. I urge those who have not attended recently to make one of these. See http://www.weather.gov/shv/skywarn
Upshur County ARES net every Thursday evening at 20:00 local on UARRC repeater. Except Thanksgiving Day.
Upshur County ARES Emergency Coordinator: W5BWC – John Keith
Assistant ARES Emergency Coordinator: KT8TOR – Nancy Manning
NCS Coordinator: KT8TOR – Nancy Manning
SKYWARN Coordinator: K5GDM – Gary Manning
Activation Coordinator: KG5UGY – George Klutts
Chaplain: N5TQI – Jim Liberacki
District Eight Coordinator: KA5AZK – Jo Ann Keith
Upshur County Assistant Emergency Coordinator: KI5OMH – Chris Burris
Upshur County Emergency Coordinator : Marc Nichols
October 30, 2021.
Upshur ARES completed a seminar consisting of Traffic Handling Training, presented by KA5AZK, Jo Ann and ARS Grounding and Lightning Protection, by W5BWC, John. We passed actual Radiogram Traffic on 40M, had a hands-on view of Grounding and a hamburger lunch with trimmings and sides. This will count as our third Exercise of 2021 as it was held on SET day.
May 10, 2021.
Upshur ARES completed our first Drill Saturday May 8. We had a simulated wild fire in southern Upshur County. He had 10 stations participating and a good Exercise.
Congratulations to the Upshur County ARES! We completed 2020, actually May – Dec with 364 check-ins to ARES Net, representing 182 hours of on-air training and 40 hours of in-person training. We also had 4 activations (all SKYWARN) with a total of 25 stations.
We begin 2021 with 14 active members and I am looking forward to 2021 with Upshur county ARES. Thank you all for making 2020 ARES a success!
The links below allow you to download documents that are specific to Upshur County ARES:
The NWS Weather Spotter’s Guide and the Spotter Info Sheet are both provided here with the permission of the NWS and NOAA who also are the owners of the material.
NWS Weather Spotter’s Guide
Spotter Info Sheet
ARES NCS Log
