Diamond Valley ARES
Volunteer Emergency Radio and Digital Communication
Monthly Events
Nets
The Diamond Valley ARES® group meets Regularly on the Lee Deforest Amateur Radio Club Repeater - 145.420 Mhz. PL 88.5 offset at -600 Khz.
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Nets are on the 1st, 3rd, & 4th Thursdays of month, at 7 P.M. Pacific Time.
Monthly Meetings
Second Thursday of the Month
Our monthly in-person meetings are usually held at the:
New Location
Four Seasons Lodge,
Boardroom
237 Four Seasons Blvd Hemet 92545
This is a gated community so you need to get your name on your drivers license to us so we can add you to the gate list.
Meetings start at 6PM
We will monitor the Lee DeForest Club repeater 145.420 - PL 88.5 for talk-ins.
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However, meetings may be held online using Free Conference Call. Members will receive an email
with a link for the meeting software and the link to the meeting.​
First Thursday of the Month
NBEMS
In addition to our weekly roll call, our exercise this week involves NBEMS practice. To accomplish this, we migrate over to the City of Hemet repeater for our exercise. Details will be given during the Net.
Third Thursday of the Month
Simplex
In addition to our regular roll call, we move over to a simplex frequency determined by Net Control to test our communications without the repeater. Refer to the pre-assigned ARES Tactical Frequency List for details.
Fourth Thursday of the Month
Messaging
In addition to our weekly roll call, this week's exercise is on how to send ICS-213 messages via voice. We try to practice properly sending at least two 25-word messages during the exercise.
Fifth Thursday of the Month
220 Testing
When there is a fifth Thursday of the month, in addition to our regular roll call our exercise involves migrating to the 1.25 meter band repeater to test our communication capabilities on this band.