ARES of Delaware County In-Person Meeting Agenda, July 11, 7pm, 911 Center

Reminder, our next monthly meeting is on Monday. Agenda is below

Date

11 Jul 2022at 7:00pm (1900 hours) at Delaware County Emergency Services building (911 center)

360 Middletown Rd, Media, PA 19063

Attendees

Goals

Regular monthly in-person meeting.

Discussion items

Time	Item	Who	Notes
5 minutes	My introduction as EC & Delco ARES Priorities	Chris Kelleher	W3CTK Introduction Blog Post
5 minutes	Recap of Field Day at Radnor	Chris Kelleher Richard Caruth Tammi Maciolek	Thank You Recap Blog Post Results Blog Post Richard Caruth Presented an After Action Report (AAR) for Field Day: Also, will schedule a working meeting in fall to practice with putting up antennas and testing.
10 minutes	CCDC Request for ARES to demo at National Night Out events	Chris Kelleher	Details of exact locations, times are still TBD Marple Location Mission on Galaxy Digital Upland Location Mission on Galaxy Digital Other locations/times still TBD, but likely to have 6 sites based on requests that have come in and our available resources. ARES specific missions will be posted to Galaxy Digital shortly. National Night Out website
10 minutes	Callouts and Standard Operating Procedures	Chris Kelleher Richard Caruth Tammi Maciolek	Please review Standard Operating Procedures page, and we'll have a quick initial discussion of formalizing a Delco ARES Manual Please review the SOP page and provide any feedback.
15 minutes	Go Kits and Go Bags	Chris Kelleher Richard Caruth Tammi Maciolek	Quick reminder/discussion of Go Kits and Go Bag items that may be needed for a deployment.
30 minutes	Introduction to Winlink and using clients such as Winlink Express and Pat	Chris Kelleher	Winlink is a digital communications mode which is capable to sending messages (email and forms) using only radio frequencies even if the internet is unavailable. We will start with a basic introduction of Winlink, and how to use Winlink Express to send/receive messages, starting with the Telnet protocol. Please bring along a Microsoft device (laptop/surface) with Winlink Express installed. If you already use a different WInlink client, feel free to bring that instead. We will get into using Winlink over your radio RF at another meeting in the near future. Winlink Express information and download Pat Winlink information and download winlink-ares.pdf
15 minutes	General discussion and Q & A	Chris Kelleher Richard Caruth Tammi Maciolek	If we are on schedule, we can have a general discussion and Q&A at the end of the meeting. I'd also like to get some feedback on future meeting agendas.

Action items

08 Aug 2022 Next Monthly Meeting is scheduled for08 Aug 2022 Chris Kelleher will be away on vacation, so Richard Caruth will coordinate/facilitate meeting with assistance from Tammi Maciolek and Tom Barrett as needed. David Horvath will be presenting.
12 Jul 2022 Chris Kelleher Will send a request for what is needed for reinstallation of the W3AEC-10 Winlink station at the 911 center for use to Danielle Koerner
18 Jul 2022 Weekly Monday Net, Net Control user will be David Horvath
25 Jul 2022 Weekly Monday Net, Net Control user will be Nathaniel Prentice
12 Sept 2022 Will schedule a future monthly meeting to dive further into Winlink, connecting your radio to a computer and transmitting using radio frequencies instead of telnet.