Monroe County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)® is an amateur radio public service organization based in Monroe County, New York, and is open to all licensed amateur radio operators.
Monroe County Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) is a program of the Monroe County Office of Emergency Management.
We participate in training and emergency exercises so that we can serve other agencies during times of communication failure. Although the primary purpose of ARES is to provide emergency communication, ARES members also routinely provide non-business communications support to other public events.
We are a program of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the national membership association for amateur radio operators in the United States. We also work closely with the Rochester Amateur Radio Association. Monroe County ARES is a 501(c)(3) non profit corporation.
For more information about ARES, read some of these articles:
Our next ARES meeting will be on April 25, 2013, 7:00PM, and will be held at the Monroe County 911 center.
The staff at the 911 center will be providing a tour of their facility. We hope to see you there!
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Monroe County ARES/RACES has been activated in support of the disaster relief efforts with Hurricane Sandy.
The Red Cross has begun opening emergency shelters in the area. As of now we have been asked to support a total of 5 shelters. We are in need of multiple volunteers to begin staffing these shelters around the clock.
Members are asked to check in to the 146.61/444.45 repeater. If you are not able to get on the radio, please send an e-mail to activations at monroe county emcomm dot org.
At the request of Richard King, Regional Director of Disaster and Emergency Services for the Finger Lakes Region, the Red Cross asks that Monroe County ARES group prepare for possible activation.
Should MC ARES be activated, please monitor local ARES repeaters for additional instructions. (146.61 – primary, 146.88 – secondary). Activation will likely entail local communications between Red cross Shelters and the Red Cross HQ at prince Street.
Activation will be announced via Hyper-reach telephone notification, email, www.monroecountyemcomm.org the MCARES usergroup and local ARES/RACES repeaters.
Jim DiTucci, N2IXD
Jon Dickason, N2JAC, explaining the role of amateur radio in the recent Homeland Security drill.
On Thursday, May 10, Monroe County RACES provided communications support for a Homeland Security drill simulating a boat interdiction event on Lake Ontario. The event involved the Coast Guard, RCMP, State Police, US Customs and Border Patrol, and the Monroe County Office of Emergency Management.
Monroe County RACES deployed radio operators on boats, equipped with Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) trackers, which allowed the boats to be tracked as they moved across Lake Ontario.
You can watch the full video, courtesy of YNN.
Ross Mazzola, KC2LOC
APRS map showing movement of boats across Lake Ontario
Chris Olin, N2CDO, with Jon Dickson, N2JAC in the background
Our April 2012 meeting will be held at the Monroe County Radio Center, Thursday April 26, 2012, 7:00 PM. Jim Herbst, Assistant Director at the Radio Center, will be showing us some of their facilities and equipment.
Here’s where you can find us:
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We hope to see you there!
On March 24, 2010, Monroe County ARES/RACES took a moment to recognize Muffy Meisenzahl, on the occasion of her retirement as the Administrator of the Monroe County Office of Emergency Management.
ARES/RACES has enjoyed an outstanding relationship with Muffy and the Office of Emergency Management. She has always supported our efforts to provide public service and emergency communication services to our community.
The Monroe ARES Board of Directors presented Muffy with an engraved radiogram plaque, thanking her for her service to the amateur radio operators in Monroe County.
Monroe County ARES/RACES wishes Muffy well in her retirement.
Pictured: (L-R) Jim DiTucci, N2IXD, Monroe RACES Radio Officer/ARES Emergency Coordinator, Muffy Meisenzahl, Judy Stonehill, N2KXS, former Monroe ARES Emergency Coordinator, Jeff Wigal, WY7Q, former Monroe RACES Radio Officer/ARES Emergency Coordinator
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