Lee County ARES Monthly Meeting, May 4, 2025

Lee Co ARES met today for their monthly meeting. We heard briefly a summary of the classes some of our members took in cybersecurity and disaster management, and we heard a report of one of our directors who visited and operated the Great Britain Radio Society station GB3RS at Bletchley Park and visited the premises where the enigma code was decoded. We discussed the login problem with the computer at the EOC, the updates for the Lexington repeater, and the benefits and disadvantages of heliax and LMR 400 for the repeater, including the problems that LMR 400 apparently caused in another county. We went through the preliminary planning of the Regional ARES exercise to be held on October 18. We decided to hold the June meeting on the third Sunday, but only on Zoom being Father’s Day weekend.