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Sussex County ARES is comprised of FCC licensed operators who volunteer their time providing emergency communications to Sussex County, Delaware, when needed. Sussex County ARES provides back up emergency communications to several served agencies in Sussex County.

 

Sussex County ARES staff consists of the Emergency Coordinator (EC), Assistant Emergency Coordinators (AEC’s), Skywarn Coordinator and any specifically designated operator(s) which will provide liaison services for the ARES group. The ARES organization is not subdivided into local municipalities to allow maximum flexibility in response. It is also NOT divided along “club boundaries” for the same reason.

 

Sussex County ARES holds regularly scheduled net sessions. The purpose of the net is to provide training, test emergency center radio equipment and to provide information about ARES activities in and around Sussex County.

 

The Sussex ARES Nets are held on first and third Wednesdays on Even Months and the first Wednesday of odd months. Net are held at 7:00 p.m. local time, on the ARES Primary Repeater 147.090 MHz (PL 156.7). Additional area NETS can be found on the NETS page. The second net that used to take place in the odd months has been replaced with an Online Training Zoom as noted below.

Sussex County ARES is now on groups.io

Sussex County ARES is now part of the ARRDelawareSection.group.io. This forum can be found at SussexCountyARES@ARRLDelawareSection.groups.io | Topics and will be used for our 'go to' site for ARES drilldata, projects, meetings, files, etc. Ongoing discussions of drills, drill plans, up coming events, active calendar, etc. are on this site. Send an email to our ARRL Sussex County Emergency Coordinator; Steven, KC3DSO via kc3dso@gmail.com to get an invite for the group. Additional quick links to the groups.io page:

 

Group Email Addresses  Post: SussexCountyARES@ARRLDelawareSection.groups.io

Subscribe: SussexCountyARES+subscribe@ARRLDelawareSection.groups.io

Unsubscribe: SussexCountyARES+unsubscribe@ARRLDelawareSection.groups.io

Group Owner: SussexCountyARES+owner@ARRLDelawareSection.groups.io

Help: SussexCountyARES+help@ARRLDelawareSection.groups.io

 

Upcoming 2026 Training Nets, Zoom Training Meetings, and Events

 

October 7 - Sussex ARES 2m Training Net, 7pm, 147.090 Millsboro repeater. Mike, N3MRM is NCS

October 14 - Sussex ARES Hybrid Meeting, 6:30PM, Arena's in Georgetown. 5:30PM for dinner, half priced sandwiches.

October 19-24 - Delaware Section holds "SET Week" with nearly daily skills such as simplex tests (2), WinLink messaging, HF Check in into the Delaware Traffic Net, statewide linked repeater test and others. Contact Steven, KC3DSO, Emergency Coordinator if you want to participate. All are welcome.

October 31 - Halloween! Get into costume and have some fun.

 

Sussex County ARES to Participate in October 24, 2026 Statewide Simulated Emergency Test (SET)

Sussex County ARES will be a participant again in this years ARRL Simulated Emergency Test. This years SET will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2026. This event will be used as our 4Q Hospital Drill. Mark you calendars now for this date. We will be activating all of the ARES facilities as in year's past. Contact Steven, KC3DSO via kc3dso@gmail.com with any questions. 

 

New Net Control Script Posted in the Files & Docs Section

A new Net Control Script has been posted in the Files & Docs Section. This new script dated 30 SEP 2026 has two basic changes. It removes the requirement of check in's to say "This is..." before checking in. It also has the Net Control Station (NCS) mention during station check in, operators give thier callsign; both slowly and phonetically, first name and location. Link for this new script.

 

Shared Calendar on this Sussex ARES Webpage

Due to the time involved in maintaining two calendars, the decision has been made to maintain only the calendar in the SussexCountyARES@ARRLDelawareSection.groups.io page. Joining this groups.io forum is free, fast and easy and you can decide how often, if any, you received emails. Everyone is encouraged to join this group to keep up to date on ARES events, training, meetings and nets. Any questions please contact

Steven Keller, KC3DSO via kc3dso@gmail.com.