The Amateur Radio Emergency Service^® is a program of the American Radio Relay League. "ARES" and "Amateur Radio Emergency Service" are registered marks of and are used on this Web site by permission of the American Radio Relay League.

Your primary job during a disaster will be communications. If the resources are available, it may be more efficient to use a telephone, a fax machine, or even email. It doesn't always have to be amateur radio.

St. Louis County ARES^® Registered Volunteers are asked to check the Registered Volunteers Only section for an important assignment.

Contact Gary Hoffman, KB0H if you need to have your password changed.

Click here for details on the upcoming class.

The next St. Louis County ARES^® meeting will take place on Monday February 13, 2012. It will take place at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in the downstairs executive dining room (at the far end of the cafeteria).

Are you having difficulties programming frequencies, repeater offsets, and/or CTCSS tones into you transceiver? Bring it to the meeting and we will help you enter the local area emergency frequencies. We will assist you with your hand held or mobile radio. Charge up your hand held before bring it. We will provide power for the mobile radios as long as they are outfitted with Anderson Powerpole connectors. Be sure to bring the radio's manual with you. Every model works differently and we will not be able to program yours without the manual.

Also on the agenda, St. Louis County ARES^® Emergency Coordinator Steve Wooten will discuss the group's Emergency Operations Plan.

• ARES^® application in "Word" document format¹
• ARES^® application in Adobe Acrobat "PDF" format¹
  You can make entries directly on this PDF form before printing it. (** Not all versions of Adobe Acrobat can display this form **)
• ARES^® application in Adobe Acrobat "PDF" format¹
  Older PDF form that does not allow you to make direct entries

1 - Please see the Software section of the Resources page if you do not have software necessary to read these files.
Or, if you prefer, write or email us and request a physical application form.

St. Louis County ARES^® holds a 2 meter net every week (see date and time listed below). All amateur radio operators are welcome to participate.

Do you monitor St. Louis County ARES^® activities? Write to us and we'll send you a QSL card. Click here for more information.

Run the show! We will teach you what you need to know. We'll give you the opportunity to control a net and help you if you have difficulties. See out Voice Net Operations page.

Not sure where to begin? Contact us and we will help you get started.

If you haven't been to our monthly meetings you've missed talks and demonstrations on Go-Bags, Message Handling, the Missouri Emergency Packet Network, DC Power and much more.

Do you need help building a go-bag? Are you unsure about what to use for emergency power? Would you like some information about personal preparedness? We can help.

Do you have emergency communications experience or knowledge that you'd like to share with others? Do you have some other skill or talent that could benefit the group? We'd be happy to hear from you.

Would you like St. Louis County ARES^® as your wallpaper? Click here to display our 1280 x 1024 poster then save it to your computer.

The date and location of our next monthly meeting can be found on the Calendar of Events page, along with directions how to get there.

Join us in our field exercises and develop your skills. Find out what things you do well and which areas you could improve. Help us to create a robust response team.

Yes, we accept donations of stamps, cash, items to sell or raffle, items that we can distribute to our volunteers, and so forth.