2019 ARES Connect summary

This is the first annual report to come directly from the data gathered from ARES Connect. The Ohio Section was the first Section in the country to utilize this new system for all of its reporting data. As such, we were charged with creating a report form that would effectively show all of the important data reporting points. The very first report produced was from May 2019. As such our 2019 data does not reflect all of 2019 in some of the reports.  Here's a link to those monthly reports:     http://arrl-ohio.org/SEC/reports.html

On October 24, 2019 all Volunteers in the Ohio Section were activated with the ability to go back in time and pickup events that were forgotten or not reported and add their own time to them. This was a feature that only County or Section Administrators could do prior to this date. This was so effective that on November 15, 2019 this same ability was given nationwide.

Our expectation for this new ability is that the Anonymous Hours will gradually be reduced over time, as our volunteers start adding themselves to events in the past that otherwise would have gone unreported or reported as Anonymous Hours, thus giving us a much more robust accounting of the individuals reporting hours.