Get ready for the ARRL Simulated Emergency Test (SET)

From ARRL.org:
ARRL Simulated Emergency Test (SET) Fall Classic is coming up soon, October 7-8.
The primary League-sponsored national emergency exercise is designed to assess the skills and preparedness of ARES® and other organizations involved with emergency and disaster response.

“Every local ARES team and/or ARRL Section will come up with their own scenarios and work with served agencies and partner organizations during the SET,” said ARRL Field Organization Team Supervisor Steve Ewald, WV1X, who pointed out that not all SETs will take place on the first full weekend of October.

Caribbean Emergency and Weather Net Requests Clear Frequencies

As a result of hurricane Maria, the Caribbean Emergency and Weather Net (http://cewn.org) is requesting that amateur radio operators avoid using 7.188MHz and 3.815MHz, as CEWN is using those for emergency operations at this time.

OARS Net, 19 September, 2017

Net Control: KI7SS Checkins: 22 WA7BAM gave an update on coming events. At the next meeting on September 20, topics will include Station Grounding, Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) and the new WebSite, more. Work party and sale at Radio Dave's, Friday and Saturday Sepetember 22-23. KI7SS gave an update on the upcoming road rally, need more volunteers for radio support. WA7BAM restated that he can provide a ride-along to the Rally. Reminder of the upcoming licensing classes. Discussion of odd problem with the 2-meter repeater on Saturday September 16, other work that was performed. Discussion of recent issues and solutions that some members have experienced. Discussed Salmon Run contacts. Discussed issues with multiple monitors on ham shack computers. Discussion of using multiple antenna tuners in series. Net Ended: 8:26pm

Here we go again, this time with Hurricane Maria

As Hurricane Maria moves into the Caribbean Islands, Caribbean Emergency Weather Net activates.

Podcast Update, 18-Sep-2017

The latest from some Ham-Related podcasts:

ICQ Podcast	Sep 17- Trying 60m with SOTABeam BandHopper Antenna
Foundations Of Amateur Radio	Sep 16 - Reorganizing the Ham Shack
QSO Today	Sep 15 - Wayne Herman, W7VOA
Amateur Radio Newsline	Sep 15 - Hurrican Irma, 9-11, more
ARRL: The Doctor Is In	Sep 14 - How High is High Enough?
Everything Ham Radio	Sep 14 - Boy Scout Jamboree On The Air (JOTA-JOTI)
Ham Talk Live!	Sep 14 - Celebration at the National Voice Of America Museum
HamNation	Sep 13 - Aid in Response to Hurricans Harvey and Irma
100 Watts and a Wire	Sep 12 - Hurricane Irma, 9-11, Rt 66 On The Air
Ham Radio 360	Sep 12 - Workbench-32: GPS Disciplined Oscillators and Frequency References
Linux In The Ham Shack	Sep 11 - Earthquakes, Hurricanes, WSJT-X, FT-8, More
The Two-Way Radio Show	Sep 8 - Discussing the Motorola Talkabout T-Series radios
ARRL Audio News	Aug 30 - Hurricane Harvey and Recovery Operations
Practical Amateur Radio Podcast	Aug 27 - Make Nature Your Shack