[NevadaARES] Southern NV ARES District EC Report - July

[Glenn Hale]

S. NV DEC ARES Report, Glenn KB7REO

Over the past several days, Las Vegas Regional SKYWARN
(LVRS) has been activated. The Las Vegas Regional
SKYWARN (LVRS) has obtained a new club callsign
WX7LAS.

The Monsoon has brought to our area some intense
T-storms and some very heavy rains. Local operations
at the NWS office have been going very well. We were
also asked to obtain any weather reports from amateur
radio spotters in outlying areas such as San
Bernardino Co., CA or Mohave Co., AZ. Over the past
week we've made additional contacts to help improve
coordination with Mohave Co. ARES, So. Nye County,
ARES and San Bernardino County, ECS/RACES. Much thanks
to John K6YDW, Clark County SKYWARN Coordinator, for
all his help with the SKYWARN packet station and
assistance with SKYWARN operations. The station's
packet BBS is WX7LAS-1.

Northern NV DEC, Paul NN7B has been working on
updating the Nevada Section Emergency Plan. The plan
once updated will be available on the NV Section web
site http://www.cvrc.net/ares

We need more Official Emergency Station (OES)
appointees in the Southern NV District. 

Please review the ARRL web site for details:
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/org/oes.html

You may choose any one of the OES duties that
interests you the most. If your interested, please
email me at kb7reo@yahoo.com

Clark County ARES Report by EC, Charlie AA5QJ

Upcoming Exercises, please mark these on your
calendars and plan on participating
1. Determined Promise National exercise conducted by
DOD Aug 18-29. Our part primarily Aug 20-21 0800-1800.
2. Simulated Emergency Test (SET) Oct 4.
3. Full-scale Aviation Disaster Exercise October 22.

SKYWARN training was held at the Nellis Amateur Radio
Club meeting on Jul 17. 

SKYWARN spotter nets were activated 5 times in the
past week because of Severe Thunderstorm and Flash
Flood Warnings in our coverage area.

Vanity call WX7LAS was issued to Las Vegas Regional
SKYWARN on Jul 29.

Glenn Hale KB7REO, DEC Southern Nevada, and Charlie
AA5QJ were interviewed by Fox News about SKYWARN
weather spotting. The interview aired on Jul 19,
showing Charlie's ham and weather stations, and
Glenn's mobile installation.

Art Sheldon K7ZE has been appointed AEC for the City
of North Las Vegas. Charlie AA5QJ and Art met with Pat
Lofft, the North Las Vegas Emergency Manager on Jul
31.

Dan Starr AA7I, Jack Cook N8RRL, Charlie AA5QJ, Terry
Kunz N5RWD, John Bigley N7UR, Larry Simon KC7QJO and
Dan Ratta KC7NAH completed the Community Emergency
Response Team (CERT) Training provided by Las Vegas
Fire & Rescue.





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