Happy New Year! For the year of 2012 we as an organization are going to be making many updates and moving towards a greater role in emergency services and community services reaching out to all generations. This site was launched on Januray 1st 2012 and we encourage you to look through our new site and if you find any links that do not work or if you would like to give any input on the site positive or negative please e-mail our webmaster Billy Walker at kf7cee@gmail.com.

Mission Statement

The purpose of the Salt Lake County A.R.E.S. Inc is to train and provide FCC-licensed Amateur Radio operators for volunteer communications support during emergencies and disasters and to provide radio communications for public service events.

In-Person Meetings
When: 7:00 PM Every Third Wednesday
Location: Salt Lake County EOC at 3380 South 900 West Access to the EOC will begin at 6:30pm

Weekly Training Net:
When: 8:00 PM each Wednesday, except for in-person
Frequency: *146.880 R 88.5 MHz, 223.940 R 100.0 and 449.900 R 100.0
Alternate: *147.540 S

THE TRAINING BOX: The box to the right ==> will be full of our upcoming on air training topics and who will be conducting our net controls and trainings as well as some of the resources to do research on with the training.

01/25/2012
Net Control: Troy Walker KE7JTH
Training:Jenny Walker KE7JTI
Topic: Grab and Go Bags for the HAM Radio responder
http://hamradionation.com/browse_vidfeeders.php?tag=Grab+and+Go+Bag
http://www.slcoares.org/certification/pdf3.pdf
http://offgridsurvival.com/survival-gear-bugoutbags/

02/01/2012
Net Control:KE7KES Jessica Wallace
Training:Russ Harmon  KC7WVQ
Topic: Social Media and How it affects our lives
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Why-Americans-Use-Social-Media/Main-report.aspx?view=all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SuNx0UrnEo
http://gigaom.com/collaboration/how-social-media-is-affecting-the-way-we-speak-and-write/

02/08/2012
Net Control:AD7LO Doug Davis
Training:K7SVC Wayne Durrant
Topic: Acronyms and Jargon: When should we not use it and when should we use it?
http://ezinearticles.com/?Using-Acronyms-in-Business-Writing-Without-Confusing-Your-Reader&id=5161186
http://ezinearticles.com/?Abbreviations-You-Shouldnt-Use-in-an-Essay&id=6091555
http://www.pbs.org/speak/words/sezwho/wiredwords/