AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY SERVICE

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA

Welcome to the Lancaster County ARES Website.

Please feel free to browse the site to learn more about our team

The new "Task Book v3.0" is required for all Team members. Download and print your own copy under "Training".

UPCOMING EVENTS:

10/16: Lancaster ARES Meeting

10/28: Lancaster ARES Net

DEC: Elizabethtown Holiday Parade

01/24: Q1 2026 Training Day

See Calendar for more details about each event.

FEMA Emergency Management Institute IS-100 and IS-700 courses are required for ARES Level: Basic

Visit the FEMA National Preparedness Course Catalog to take the FREE courses

(Note: some of these courses may not be available due to government shutdown or alignment with administration priorities.)

You volunteered, checked into nets and took online courses. Now we must document the time!

Your Monthly Service Hours Report is due on the 2nd of every month.

April Towers Drill 2025 - UHF

Lancaster ARES will conduct our annual April Towers Drill on Saturday, April 19th 2025 from 1000 - 1200 hrs EDT. For 2025, our focus will be on the effectiveness of the UHF Amateur Band using Simplex Frequencies and the locally established UHF Repeater Systems.

As before, April Towers Drill will focus on major municipal locations throughout Lancaster County. We are looking for operators who wouldn't mind cruising around Lancaster County on a fine spring morning to test radio communications!

More information, please click this link: APRIL TOWERS 2025 DRILL PLAN

Our First Quarter 2025 Training and Meeting will be held on 0900 on JANUARY 25, 2025 at

Welsh Mountain Community Center, 564 Sandmine Rd, New Holland, PA 17557.

Q1 2025 Training at Welsh Mtn.

Everyone is invited to attend the First Quarter 2025 Training and info meeting. Please invite anyone interested in public service through Amateur Radio! Please RSVP, and add a comment if you will be bringing anyone who is not already a Lancaster ARES team member. <RSVP HERE>

We will review our accomplishments from 2024, cover a couple training topics, give updates on Lancaster ARES activities for the upcoming year.

Special thanks to the Red Rose Repeater Association, who has rented the site for their Winter Field Day 2025 activity and has allowed us to once again piggyback with their event.. RRRA will have plenty of food and beverages, so come out for the ARES meeting, and stay around to learn and operate in the Winter Field Day! If you are able, please consider making a small donation to RRRA to help cover their expenses.

Mother's Day "Make-A-Wish Convoy",

Manheim, PA

Keystone Trail Association "Trail Challenge"

Pequea, PA

Eastern States 100 Ultra-Marathon,

Lycoming & Clinton Counties, PA