Amateur Radio Emergency Service®
St. Louis City and County, Missouri
The Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) provides emergency communications to "Served Agencies" such as fire and police departments, the American Red Cross, the National Weather Service, hospitals, and others. Many ARES® teams also provide communications for public service events such as marathons, parades, bike riding events, and boat races. Individual ARES® teams are organized at the county level in Missouri. This is the Web site of the ARES® team serving St. Louis City and County, Missouri.
The Amateur Radio Emergency Service® is a program of the American Radio Relay League. "ARES" and "Amateur Radio Emergency Service" are registered marks of and are used on this Web site by permission of the American Radio Relay League.
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Want to get involved?
To apply, fill out our online application, and the completed form will be sent via email. Alternatively, if you prefer, you can download and print a paper application, and mail us the completed form through the postal service.
If you're already a registered volunteer, there are always opportunities to get more involved. For more details, please see the Get Involved page.
What will we do in the event of a disaster?
Click here to learn about Emergency
Support Functions and the role of St. Louis Metro ARES/RACES
in emergency management plans.
Check In
St. Louis Metro ARES® holds a 2 meter net every week (see
date and time listed below). All amateur radio operators
are welcome to participate.
Net Control
Run the show! We will teach you what you need to know. We'll
give you the opportunity to control a net and help you if
you have difficulties. See our
Voice Net Operations page
.
St. Louis Metro ARES® Repeaters
We maintain repeaters on:
- 145.350 MHz (-) CTCSS 123.0 Hz
- 442.375 MHz (+) CTCSS 141.3 Hz
Presentations
If you haven't been to our monthly meetings you've missed
talks and demonstrations on Go-Bags, Message Handling, the
Missouri Emergency Packet Network, DC Power and much more.
Help Is Available
Do you need help building a go-bag? Are you unsure about
what to use for emergency power? Would you like some information
about personal preparedness? We can help.
Share Your Expertise
Do you have emergency communications experience or knowledge
that you'd like to share with others? Do you have some other
skill or talent that could benefit the group? We'd be happy
to hear from you.
Yes, We QSL
Do you monitor St. Louis Metro ARES® activities? Write to
us and we'll send you a QSL card.
Click here for more information.
Next Meeting
The date and location of our next monthly meeting can be
found on the
Calendar of Events page, along
with directions how to get there.
Field Exercises
Join us in our field exercises and develop your skills. Find
out what things you do well and which areas you could improve.
Help us to create a robust response team.
Donations
Yes, we accept donations of stamps, cash, items to sell or
raffle, items that we can distribute to our volunteers, and
so forth.
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