Amateur Radio Emergency Service for Dane and Iowa Counties

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• Materials for SET 2025
  Starting at 1:00 pm on Oct 4, 2025 Dane/Iowa County ARES/RACES will testing a subset of our activations frequencies, including using the stations at the EOC, Hospitals and operators at home or mobile. For an overview of how the net will be conducted, a list of frequencies (ICS205), the Net Script and to view theContinue reading “Materials for SET 2025”
• In-Person meeting – September 24, 2025 at Dane County EOC
  We will meet in person on Wednesday (or virtually if you can’t make it) on September 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM at the Dane County Emergency Operations Center at 2982 Kapec Rd, Fitchburg, WI 53719, USA We expect to participate in this year’s SET (Simulated Emergency Test) on October 4 at 1:00 pm. We’ll discussContinue reading “In-Person meeting – September 24, 2025 at Dane County EOC”
• Activation: Milwaukee Flooding Damage Assessment
  We have officially been requested by Emergency Management and the IMT to assist with damage assessment.    We are looking for ARES members to assist Tomorrow 8/12 and Wed 8/13 from 7AM until 5PM, or as much of that time as possible.    Time assignment is 7AM at the command post in Glendale to receive training.  OperationsContinue reading “Activation: Milwaukee Flooding Damage Assessment”
• No July 2025 In-Person Meeting
  It is summer. We are busy. Many of us will be working Dairyland Dare on August 2, so we won’t be having our in-person meeting on the last Wednesday of July. We’ll have our regularly scheduled Weekly Net at 8pm on the MARA “15” repeater. See you on the radio!
• Dane/Iowa ARES/RACES Nets during Field Day
  During ARRL Field Day exercises this year we will be exercising the frequencies on our ARES Communication Plan. We will conduct a series of Nets starting at 4:00 PM on Saturday, June 28. If all goes according to plan we should be done by just after 4:30. I have a document outlining the times andContinue reading “Dane/Iowa ARES/RACES Nets during Field Day”
• Severe Weather Reporting
  I admit, even after a number of training sessions, I am still a little (just a little) uncertain what to report and what is important. I learned this week that the Sullivan Committee which supports the teams of storm spotters for NOAA in Milwaukee, whose area includes Dane and Iowa Counties. In addition to aContinue reading “Severe Weather Reporting”
• ARES Activities for June 2025
  Hey there Communicators! 3 things for June 2025 Jeff, K9UNZ