Sullivan Amateur Radio Club

The Sullivan Amateur Radio Club participated today in the Hospital Amateur Radio Network in support of Missouri Baptist Hospital in Sullivan, MO.  In attendance were Chris Westrick (KD0JVF), Barb Siegfried (KD0JVB), and John McReynolds (KC0NRO).

To quote the St. Louis ARES website, “HARN will provide Amateur Radio Operators to assist hospitals in their communication needs. HARN will provide communication support to enhance hospital preparedness for response to critical incidents in the St. Louis Bi-State region. The Amateur Radio Operators will coordinate with emergency management agencies and other regional first responders to accomplish interoperable communications for hospitals. The hospitals will coordinate drills and exercises among area the hospitals utilizing amateur radio resources. The hospitals will periodically test and exercise their amateur radio equipment located in each facility that has a amateur radio installed.”

After receiving training on the equipment at last night’s club meeting, the Sullivan Amateur Radio Club has renewed its commitment to the hospital to participate in all of these exercises in the future.  John McReynolds will be heading up this effort and will help ensure that we have trained people there for each of these events.

Below is a picture of Chris and Barb, hard at work this morning during the exercise!

SARC held a Repeater Cabinet Work Day today and we made tremendous progress in getting it ready to be deployed at the new repeater site (West Sullivan Water Tower).  Below are some pictures of things as we made progress throughout the day.

I’d like to personally thank the following people for their time, energy, on-site engineering expertise and their willingness to tolerate me!  LOL  Seriously, many thanks to Paul Barber (AA0GB), Jerry Waeltermann (KB0DOG), Allan Sieker (AD0FT) and Bob Hollenbeck (KB0OTL) for their efforts.  They had GREAT SUCCESS today!

I’d like to add a special thank you to Paul Barber who loaned us the place to work, the tools, the steam cleaner, and many pieces and parts to make this effort a success!