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:
Our monthly meeting, which is held on the third Monday of each month at 1900 MST/MDT, will be on September 15th, 2025 – the Agenda is still TBD.

Details of our monthly meetings and Net Check-ins can also be found on our Events Page. Our weekly Net Check-ins are held every Monday night at 1930 MST/MDT except for holidays on the SCARES repeater network. During day of the Net, we also accept Winlink check ins, send these to K5BIQ or KG5WED prior to the start of the net. Our next Net Controller will be Ron, NM5AA on September 8th. The next monthly HF EMCOMM Net check-in on 3939khz LSB will take place on Sunday, September 7th, at 1930 MST.

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. Honk your horn or give a call on the 147.10 MHz Repeater (100 Hz PL) to be let in if the gate is not open.

SCARES Clothing:
Rio Rancho T-Shirt has copies of our SCARES artwork and can produce Shirts and other apparel. Members can contact them at: Rio Rancho T-Shirt 1207 Golf Course Rd SE, Rio Rancho, NM 87124 (505) 891-1521. Our current shirt color is Burgundy.

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.