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The Osceola County Amateur Radio Emergency Service is committed to providing reliable Amateur Radio communications support to the Emergency Management Communications Assistance Team of the Osceola County Office of Emergency Management. Missions may be assigned to this unit in situations of an emergency nature or natural disaster anywhere within Osceola County or adjacent counties with which there is a Amateur Radio Emergency Service Mutual Assistance Team (ARESMAT) agreement. Additionally, Osceola County ARES may participate in non-emergency events as requested by event organizers, provided the services requested are within the unit's capabilities and in compliance with Federal Communications Commission Part 97 Rules.

Field Day

We had a great field day! The Orange and Osceola teams did an outstanding job! Setup started around 0830 and was completed by 1030 with few issues. We installed one G5RV on the parking garage between the light poles. Two more dipoles were installed on the pneumatic mast in the side parking lot. We operated 4 HF stations of which one was PSK. We had a great deal of fun and comraderie. The food was great, and it was nice to work Field Day in the air conditioning!

145.350 Repeater Antenna Changed!

As of 6/17/2010 the 145.350 has a new antenna. It is the same make and model as the old one, and is performing much better. We suspect the phasing harness on the old antenna had gone bad, and initial results seem to confirm our suspicions. The last test performed at 436 and Pershing Ave, we had a 7 S-Unit signal and we were full quieting into the repeater. Initial results look positive. Give it a try! Joe/N4ZIQ

New ARES website and hosting

Welcome all to the new incarnation of Osceola County ARES Website!

We have moved to a new hosting provider in order to make things easy to administer and transfer the keys to new webmasters when they join or leave the organization. 

The new website is also now based on a web site package called Drupal, which will now let authorized members have the ability to directly edit content on the site, to help keep it as up to date as possible.

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