KJ9M called the Central Indiana Amateur Radio Association ARES Net for 03 December 2023 at 2000 hrs. and concluded at 2053 hrs. on the 145.17 and 443.55 MHz repeaters. W9ST was Asst. Net Control Station. There were a total of 55 check-ins, including Net Control and ANCS.
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Announcements · The really BIG Good Samaritan Christmas food and toy deliveries are coming up next Saturday, Dec. 9. This will be an “all hands on deck” event, given the large number of scheduled deliveries throughout the county. For more information AND to sign up, go to the SignUpGenius at:https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4AABAF2CA2F4C25-111623#/. Same procedure as the Thanksgiving deliveries – Point of distribution is the Hamilton County Fairgrounds with talk-in on both Noblesville repeaters. Please help make Christmas merrier for the county’s needy families. Operations will start at 0800. · N9DAM announced that CIARA and the Piglets will jointly work the 24-hour Winter Field Day at the Osprey Point Pavilion Jan. 27-28. More details forthcoming. · Matthew KD9WFK is looking for new Net Control and Assist Net Control stations for the Sunday night nets. If you are interested in running Net Control or Assist Net Control please email Matthew at KD9WFK@gmail.com to sign up or get more information. CIARA President Matthew thanked all who came out to the joint luncheon on Saturday. · Also, if you are interested in running the position of net manager for the Hortonville “Who Knows What” Thursday night net, please email Matthew, KD9WFK@gmail.com or John at w9kd@aol.com. Additionally, all are invited to submit topics for discussion. If you have any suggestions, please email those to Matthew. · If you are interested in joining ARES and have not signed up in the past 60 days please email Mike – KD9BKU – County ARES EC — at KD9BKU@gmail.com. Mike thanked Tim, KD5URS for all his past work in keeping ARES records and announced appointment of Nate, KD9WZT as Asst. EC who is also designing a Hamilton County Indiana ARES website – Congratulations Nate! · Meetings: The next CIARA meeting will be on
January 6th at Noblesville Fire Station 76. RACES will meet onJanuary 13th in the Sheriff’s training room at 0830. · The first quarterly VE amateur radio license testing session for 2024 will be January 20th, 1030 hrs. in the Sheriff’s training room in Noblesville. Contact KJ9M at kj9m@arrl.net to register or for more information. · W9ST reminded HCEM members of the virtual Pond Safety online course tomorrow morning at 0900 as well as forthcoming NARCAN training, Dec. 16 Cold Weather ops training. Also a reminder to check into the EMA public safety repeater Monday evening, Dec. 11 at 1830.· The ARRL will hold its 10-meter contest this coming weekend which should be a great opportunity to have fun working plenty of DX stations.· KJ9M aired Amateur Radio Newsline.73,Joe – KJ9M Gary – W9STNCS ANCS