Sandoval County ARES
The Sandoval County, NM Chapter of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service
Sandoval County ARES

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

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Net Check-Ins:
Our weekly Net Check-ins are held every Monday night at 1930 local time except for holidays on the SCARES repeater network. During day of the Net, we also encourage Winlink check ins, please send these to KI5YIF or KG5WED prior to the start of the net. You do not have to be a SCARES or ARES member to check into our net. The date for the next SCARES Radio Net, and the scheduled Net Control Station are posted in the table below:

DATENCS STATIONDATENCS STATION
April 6KI5YIFMay 4NM5F
April 13AA5CGMay 11K5KKW
April 20MEETINGMay 18MEETING
April 27K5BIQMay 25NM5MC

Meetings:
Our in-person meetings are held every 3rd Monday of the month, at 1900/7:00 pm local time at the following location:
Rio Rancho Fire & Rescue Administration Building
1526 Stephanie Road
Rio Rancho, NM (MAP)
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.

EMCOMM COMMUNICATIONS: The New Mexico Roadrunner EMCOMM & Traffic Net (HF SSB / Voice) now takes place every evening at 0100Z on 3939kHz. This net has evolved from the formerly separate EMCOMM and Roadrunner Nets. Stations with any Emergency, Welfare or other related traffic are invited to check into the Net any night, Sun-Sat. Operators wishing to follow the former EMCOMM schedule can check in with N5ATR from Bernalillo County ARES hosting as NCS on Sunday nights, as well. For details see the N5ATR QRZ page.

Membership
New members are always welcome.
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.

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.