ARES

Knox County Emergency Coordinator: Anthony Aristide, KE8OOE Cell Phone: 330-322-4615
The Knox County ARES is a public service organization, consisting of licensed Amateur Radio operators who have voluntarily registered their time, talents and equipment to provide communications and services to the public where ever possible. The Knox County ARES is a dedicated corps working hand-in-hand with local, state and federal government agencies, as well as other non-profit and community-service organizations providing communications and assistance in times when resources aren't otherwise available or they are overloaded. Formal training programs for all members will be established in order to insure that expectations of the members are clearly understood and that basic levels of skills and performance required in emergency conditions of different types will be available. Knox County ARES will also provide "Mutual Aid" support to surrounding counties whenever possible. Want more information about the Knox County ARES? Contact Anthony Aristide, KE8OOE Standard Operating Procedure for Knox County ARES volunteers Every ARES member should have a spare radio that can at least hit another member of ARES HT, HF, or mobile. This radio should not be connected but protected in a faraday protector. Spare radios don't grow on trees but do your best most of us have an HT. During an actual communication outage of longer than 4 Hours unless an emergency has been declared by the EOC, if you have lost cell phone, internet , data. all forms of communications please follow this SOP 1- Make sure your family members are ok and safe. 2- Make sure your neighbors are safe and ok. Check to make sure they have lost comms as well. 3- Tune your (spare) radio into ARES repeater 4- A net will be attempted on the repeater by the EC or AEC if the repeater is down, tune into simplex emergency frequency 146.520, this frequency should be programmed in all your radios. standy by. 5- EC will make his way to EOC and await any instruction from county officials. Any instructions will be broadcast on 146.520 6- Stay on the emergency simplex frequency and listen for any emergency broadcasts. 7- One member will be in charge of passing all new information from their station relayed from EOC. ******************************************************************
ARES Plan - 07-01-22 rev b Ohio Section Emergency Response Plan (OSERP) Knox County ARES Ops Manual 03/24/205 - PDF Version Knox County ARES ICS-217 - PDF Version Knox County ARES Severe Weather Net Preamble and Procedure Knox County Sunday Night Net Preamble Knox County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) National Traffic System (NTS) and Radiogram Training ARRL Precedences, Message Numbers and Handling Instructions	Forms Fillable Radiogram Standard Radiogram ICS Form 213 ICS Form 205 ICS Form 205T ICS Form 214 ICS Form 217A