Amateur Radio Emergency Service for Dane and Iowa Counties

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• 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
• No In Person Meeting May 28
  There will be NO in-person meeting on the last day of the month this month, May 2025, however the normal ARES/RACES Net Meeting will be held at 8PM on the 28th as it is every week on the MARA “15” repeater.
• There WILL be a net this week – March 26
  As part of our becoming familiar with the EOC Amateur radio room, we WILL have our regular net at 8:00 pm this week (March 26). If you are unable to be with us at the EOC for our regularly scheduled in-person meeting, turn on your radio as you normally would and join us for theContinue reading “There WILL be a net this week – March 26”