Sandoval County Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES) has been dedicated to providing emergency communications and related services to our served agencies since 1991. Served Agencies include:
– City of Rio Rancho (and other local municipalities)
– Sandoval County
– State of New Mexico
– Federal Government
Net Check-ins & Meetings:
Details of our monthly meetings and Net Check-ins can be found on our Events Page.
Our weekly Net Check-ins are held every Monday night at 1930 MST/MDT on the SCARES repeater network. Our next Net Controller will be John, KI5YIF on March 25th.
Our monthly meeting is held on the third Monday of each month at 1900 MST/MDT. The next meeting will be on March 18th. The planned agenda for this month’s meeting will be:
Vote on Proposed Bylaws Revision
Discussion on a GMRS Radio
Discussion on Rocky Mountain Ham Radio (RMHAM) Correspondence
Review a New Member Application.
ZOOM will be available for the Meeting, details will follow.
Meeting location:
Rio Rancho
Fire & Rescue Administration
1526 Stephanie Road
Rio Rancho, NM
Note: We enter the building via the side door, behind the locked gate. Give a call on the 147.10 MHz Repeater (100 Hz PL) to be let in.
Summary of lecture on ElectroMagnetic Pulse effects:
Below is a link to a document that is a summary of the lecture on EMP effects given at the March 8, 2024 meeting of the Bernalillo County ARES group, by Richard St. John, Ph.D, an EMP expert. As his presentation mainly focused on Nuclear EMP, some notes concerning solar EMP have been added. Document: A Simple EMP primer for EMCOMM Stations (docx format, click link to download).
Membership
New members are always welcome.
For more information, please check-in to the Sandoval County ARES radio Net, held on the SCARES repeater system every Monday evening at 1930 local time (except the THIRD Monday of each month at 1900, which is our regular meeting night).
To join SCARES, please download and fill out this application form (PDF) and mail it along with your check for $30 to Sandoval County ARES, P.O. Box 44394, Rio Rancho, NM 87174-4394.