This past Saturday, January 25, several of our Club members, Paul Craft, Jim Hadder and Jody Huneycutt, attended the 2014 State ARES Convention at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, GA.  One of our club members, who is a part-time resident of Gilmer County, but who lives in North Fulton, Tom Koch, was awarded "HAM OF THE YEAR".  

CONGRATULATIONS, TOM.  We are pleased that you are a member of EARS.

2014 Georgia Death Race

Gilmer County ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service), in conjunction with the Ellijay Amateur Radio Society (E.A.R.S.), will be providing radio communications again this year for the Georgia Death Race, a 60 mile footrace through the North Central Georgia mountains, from Vogel State Park, south of Blairsville, to Amicalola Falls State Park, between Ellijay and Dahlonega, on Saturday/Sunday March 15 & 16, 2014.  Amateur radio operators interested in volunteering to work this event as communicators can contact the Incident Commander, Jim, KE4ZX, via his e-mail, jehadder@comcast.net, for further information.  Over 40 operators are needed.