George County Mississippi Amateur Radio Emergency Services LLC

The Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) provides emergency communications for "Served Agencies" such as Emergency Management Agency, police and fire departments the America Red Cross, the National Weather Service, hospitals, and others. We also provide communications for public service events such as marathons, parades, bike riding events and boat races.

Individual ARES teams are organized at the county level in Mississippi. This is the web site of the ARES team serving George County, Mississippi.

The Amateur Radio Emergency Service® is a program of the American Radio Relay League, (ARRL). "ARES" and "Amateur Radio Emergency Service" are registered marks of the American Radio Relay League and are used on this web site by permission of the American Radio Relay League.

We once again are requesting your help in assisting GC ARES with the Lucedale Christmas Parade. George County ARES will provide extra eye and ear support to the parade and law enforcement officials via Ham radio. The Lucedale Parade is on December 6th, the first Saturday in December.

Please consider volunteering to help us this year on December 6th for the Lucedale Christmas parade. We do need the extra Ham support for such a large event. You may contact General with any questions or concerns.

If you haven't been to our monthly meetings, you have missed talks and demonstrations on DMR, Ham Radio Deluxe Software, self-defense and much more.

You do not need to be experienced. We have a script for you to follow.

We will teach you what you need to know and don't worry about making mistakes, we all do.

Contact General, KD4VVZ if you would like to help.

Do you need help building a go bag? Programming that new mobile rig? Are you unsure about what to use for emergency power? Would you like some information about personal preparedness? We can help.

Lucedale DMR repeater @ 444.2000+

Biloxi DMR repeater @444.9625+

Petal DMR repeater @444.9375+

Thomasville DMR repeater @444.9875+

NEW!

Poplarville DMR repeater 443.2500+

Our new frequency list is now available.

Our regular meeting in December will be our Christmas party. Potluck style, bring a dish to pass. Fun to be had by all!

We have free DMR codeplugs available, for the AnyTone AT-D878UVII Plus HT, AnyTone AT-D578UVIII Plus mobile, and the Radioddity GD-88 HT check out this page for details. These are more up-to-date than a "Super" codeplug that a popular vendor sells for $70. More to come!

Our weekly ARES 2 meter net operates every Wednesday evening immediately following the Amateur Radio Newsline that starts at 7:37 PM Central Time. The net is on the KD4VVZ repeater, frequency 147.120 MHz with a positive offset and a tone of 136.5. All amateur operators are invited to participate.

There is now a new Tech Net on Thursday evenings at 7:30 PM Central Time, on the Lucedale (Brandmeister 312801) DMR talkgroup. This is not ARES releated, but is a lot of fun.