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All, This past Saturday morning we participated, once again, in helping to provide observers and communications along the Wallkill River for this event. We worked with the race administration both at the start line and the finish line as well as Montgomery FD and Montgomery EMS. The morning started out cool but once the sun

Orange County ARES RACES (KC2OUR) activating the EOC. Field expedient 80 Meter Dipole about 12′ at the center, using the crash box, TS-2000 & LDG tuner. Learned there is a fair amount of electrical noise in the EOC garage when the heater fans are running. With KC2VTJ, KD2NMG, AA2XX, N2CE, KD2BFP, KD2GJH, KN2X and special

Today 3/30/2019 several members of OC ARES/RACES participated in teaching scouts about Ham radio and its uses in an emergency.  Every scout got to make contacts on the air from right around the local area and around the world via HF and digital modes. Scouts also where able to send emails via RF using Winlink,

Orange County ARES / RACES has a weekly on air net every Monday night at 8PM on the KC2OUR Linked repeater network. However, the last Monday of the month, we have our face-to-face meeting at the Emergency Service Center in Goshen at 22 Wells Farm Rd. at 7:30 PM. All licensed amateur radio operators are