Welcome to the Washington County ARES/RACES site!

Washington County Amateur Radio Emergency Services(ARES) exists for the purpose of providing backup emergency communications to many served agencies in Washington County, Oregon.  Those served agencies include incorporated cities, special service districts (fire districts, utilities, schools, etc.), and hospitals.  Other non governmental agencies may also be served upon request, as allowed by available staffing and training

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Send a Message for Valentine’s Day

Subject: Valentine’s Day and participating in traffic handling
We are working to interest Oregon’s hams in traffic handling, and this is a great
introduction for both new and experienced hams!
SEND A VALENTINE VIA RADIO!
The recipient does NOT have to be a ham.
Traffic handling is a foundation of amateur radio, and Valentine’s Day
is February 14. Sending a Valentine via ham radio is a good exercise for
the entire system, and gives operators (including you) a chance to build
experience needed during emergencies.
For example, if I were sending a Valentine to my wife…which I might
just do…it would look something like this.
1 R N7JI ARL 9 Eugene OR Feb 13
Karen Luks
Eugene OR 97405
5415551212
BT
ARL Fifty ARL Sixty Valentines Day
X LOVE YOU
BT
Scott
ARL refers to a number, spelled out.
The ARRL Sweepstakes exchange, including “precedence,” is actually
derived from traffic handling.
Numbered radiograms come from a list and save time.
Present your message to your Section or Local net for relay to the
addressee.
Via voice, say:
This is YOURCALL, with traffic, when you check in to the net.
When the net control asks for your traffic, say:
“I have (x) routine message(s) for
  (City(s)) (State, if outside of Oregon,) over.”
The NCS will direct you from there.
Via CW, send:
  “de YOURCALL, QTC X (City, etc.) K.”
Then wait for direction from the NCS.
Beaver State Net, (BSN), 3920 kHz @ 17:30 local time, can route your
message to locations in Oregon or outside of the Oregon Section via
Liaison to the Region 7 net. Local nets: Portland Metro, Northwest
Oregon Traffic and Training Net on 145.27 MHz (107.2) repeater meets at
18:05 local time, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. Traffic
routes via the Section Net Liaison as mentioned. Check your local net!
Liaison to BSN!
It’s as simple as that!
Remember – traffic handling is a foundational pillar of amateur radio,
and we are always looking for new traffic handlers. Like everything in
amateur radio, actually doing it will develop your confidence and
skill…and we were all newbies once.
For traffic handling questions, contact Oregon’s Section Traffic Manager
Dave, W7EES, at da**@w7***.net.
Thanks & Happy Valentine’s Day!
Scott N7JI
ARRL Oregon Section Manager
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February 20 ARES Meeting Location

Cherry Lane Fire Station – See Calendar for further information.

Meeting Location and Information

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RATPAC WINLINK 2023

For the RATPAC WINLINK 2023 Web Page click HERE

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WCARES 96 HOUR BAG

 

The WCARES 96 Hour Bag has been placed in the Training Folder and you may access it on the right under Member Resources/Training/WCARES 96 HR. BAG

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New Training Documents access them here or on the Training Page

ARO Training

ARES® Emergency Communicator
Individual Task Book

 

 

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Where The Shaking Things Are

WhereTheShakingThingsAre_v2_2018

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Digital Modes from September ARES Meeting

Digital Modes

Power Point – “Right Click” then “Save AS” to download

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Washco ARES Postoffice Stations

There is 1 RMS Post Office Stations Online now.

KC7PMU-10 – on  145.55 mHz

Use RMS Express and send a normal Packet WL2K message addressed to the station you want to send it to.
It will be held on the station until the station it’s addressed to connects to the Post Office station.

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Message Handling

Click here for PDF file
Click here for Power Point file
 

Questions? please contact Pat, W7***@ar**.net

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Digital Modes Explained

WB8NUT has the following website with good explainations on the different Digital modes available with sound examples for each mode.

 

Click HERE to visit WB8NUT’s website

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