Saturday April 4th 2026 the group set out to test some new equipment they have been working on in support of the ARES mission. Through 2025 some areas of improvement were identified via the numerous After Action Reports. 2 of those areas were higher power mobile radio availability and real time asset tracking. Portable 50…
Sumner County ARES was tasked with assisting the Hendersonville Police Dept. with the Hendersonville Christmas Parade on Sunday December 7th, 2025. Our mission was simple yet effective and beneficial. Sumner County ARES members were to provide visual support for the event and report back anything they may observe that required attention. This could be from…
Sunday November 9th, 2025 the City of Hendersonville hosted their annual Veterans Day Parade. The temperature that morning was in the high 20s at the crack of dawn and rose to the 40s with windy conditions. Not great weather for a parade. Spectators were enthusiastic on the sides of Main Street as were the Sumner…
Members of the Sumner County ARES group and the Sumner County Amateur Radio Association took time from their busy schedules and volunteered to assist a sister ARES group in supporting the Gravel Revival 2025 event in Hickman County Tennessee. Some travelling over 100 miles and 2 hours. That was nothing compared to some of the…
The Brauer’s Freedom Festival for 2025 was on July 3rd, a hot and sultry day, at Drake’s Creek Park in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Clear skies brought lots of sunshine and with that came the heat and humidity. Just another Middle Tennessee day in July. Sumner County ARES, in coordination with and supported by the Sumner County…
The author participated in this event as ARES support for the exercise. A temporary HF station was setup at his QTH however commercial power was utilized as there were no power outages in this are as per the exercise details. The station consisted of an Icom 7300 with a Samlex power supply and a 20…
On Wednesday 6/18/25 at 2011 hours the Sumner County ARES Weather Net was activated on the SCARA and Shout South Repeater System. The net was brought online by NG2S due to a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Sumner County. NG2S acted as net control and took check-ins and traffic as well as relaying local weather updates…
June 14th was The Milligan for 2025. The Milligan is a bike event that is formerly know as The Big Hill Challenge. You can read more about the event at TheMilligan.org. This radio communications for this event are run my the Nashville Amateur Radio Club. This year a few additional clubs were invited to assist…
The Sumner County ARES monthly meeting was held on June 12th directly after the Sumner County Amateur Radio Association’s monthly meeting. You can read about that meeting at www.SCARA.net. Brian, NG2S, SCARES Co-EC started off the meeting discussing the important of continuing training and the ARRL ARES Taskbooks. After the taskbooks topic was completed Paul,…
The Great Tennessee Airshow Members of Sumner County Amateur Radio Association and Sumner County ARES deployed on June 07, 2025 to assist the Nashville Amateur Radio Club with radio communications support for The Great Tennessee Airshow. The guys, Brian, NG2S, and Steve, KD4SAH, arrived at 0900 at the Net Control Station to check in and…
