⚠️ Beginning with January 2025, RRRAES¹ ARES meetings will only occur during months where a business meeting is scheduled (unless an announcement is made).

Where will announcements be made?

⭐ Our primary distribution method for announcements about ARES meetings are the RRRA Club Announcements and Club Discussions mailing lists. All RRRA members should be subscribed to one of these lists.

❓ Announcements about ARES meetings may be published as blog posts (which automatically propagate to Facebook and Mastodon)

❌ It is highly unlikely that announcements about ARES meetings will be made during a RRRA Sunday Night VHF/UHF net. RRRAES members should not rely solely on this distribution channel.

Where is the meeting schedule?

On the RRRA website

Upcoming ARES Meetings are added to the RRRA website calendar approximately 90 days before each meeting date.

The next ARES meeting (regardless of status) is displayed in the Upcoming Events section at the top of the RRRA homepage.

A list of the published ARES meeting dates is available in the Happenings sections of our website sidebar.

On your device calendar

ARES meeting dates may be added to your device calendar through the use of our automatically updating webcal service by following the instructions for just the ARES meetings or for our entire calendar.

In your RSS reader

Our ARES meeting schedule may be viewed in your RSS reader (AKA News Aggregator) by subscribing to our ARES meeting RSS feed.

Would you like to know more?

Please contact with any questions about RRRAES and ARES.

Please contact the for assistance with any RRRA online services.

Red River Radio Amateurs has a proud tradition of raising awareness about our hobby through various public service events and outeach activities—such as the Fargo Police Picnic—in the Fargo/Moorhead area.

But, due to a lack of volunteer support, RRRAES will NOT be able to staff and present the club communication trailer at the 2023 Fargo Police Picnic unless (at least) one more club member steps forward to help.

Please contact before My 20th if you care about the future of our hobby and are willing to help out.

The updated RRRAES Frequency list discussed by KD0IOE at the May 2019 ARES meeting has been published on-line. This list is available as an Excel spreadsheet, PDF and CSV files.

The files are stored in the ARES | Documents and Manuals folder on the RRRA Groupware Server. This folder may be accessed without logging in through a public link (which is listed as RRRA ARES Documents and Manuals on the RRRA Files and Links page.)

Club members who need assistance with their Groupware Server account should contact the Webmaster Team .

Important Information For CSV File Users

The CSV version of the RRRAES Frequency list is intended to be used with “CHIRP” (a free open-source tool for programing your amateur radio). Please visit the CHIRP homepage or check your OS repositories, or store, to obtain this software.

A CHIRP Programming Webinar was presented October 20, 2016, by ARRL. Please visit our “Did you miss the ARRL CHIRP Programming Webinar?” blog post—published November 9, 2016—to watch this webinar.

The safest way to use the CSV file in conjunction with CHIRP is to:

1. Download your radio’s memory to the application
2. Save a backup copy of your radio’s memory list
3. Merge in the RRRAES frequency list to your personal memory list. It may be prudent to move your personal frequencies out of the way of the RRRAES frequencies to preserve our standard channel numbering
4. Save a backup copy of the new memory list
5. Upload the new memory list to your radio

Please contact with questions about the RRRAES Frequency list or for assistance with CHIRP