Trek 100 – 2025

Trek 100 will be held on June 7, 2025. This ride starts and finishes at TREK Bicycle Corporation Corporate Headquarters, Waterloo, Wisconsin. If you can help with Communications, SAG, Pick up vehicle, sweep radio vehicle, shadow operator and other positions on that day please send an email to John, n9guu@hotmail.com.

Dane/Iowa ARES/RACES In-Person Meeting Feb 26

We are meeting in person this week at the Dane County EOC for our monthly in-person meeting. Tom Kucharski, W9TJK, who coordinates Amateur Radio volunteer communicators for the National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan (https://www.weather.gov/mkx/), WI under whose umbrella we reside, will join us to describe how they work with counties in our area. When reviewing the role of Amateur radio communicators in this part of Wiesconsin one of the most frequent concerns that comes up in conversations is related to weather events. We don’t get hurricanes but we get weather which has consistently been a concern on the county and state level. We will meet both in person and virtually on Wednesday evening March 26 at 7PM at the Dane County EOC, 2982 Kapec Rd, Fitchburg, WI 53719. See below for the virtual connection information.


Please also consider these weather related events.


Connection information for In Person Meeting

We do not publicize connection information in this space. If you are interested in joining us for this event and need the connection information please email kc9unz@arrl.net and include your name and call sign.

Dark Skies Severe Weather Seminar – 2025

The Dark Skies Severe Weather Seminar sponsored by the Midwest Severe Storm Tracking/Response Center will be held this year on March 8, 2025 from 0900 CST to 1530 CST at Madison College, 1701 Wright Street, Madison, WI, Room D1630. It looks to be an interesting program including Alex Harington – Chief Meteorologist, WISC Channel3000, some presentations from Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences; Director, Space Science & Engineering Center UW Madison just to name a few. You will also be able to satisfy the SKYWARN Spotter training on your ARES Standardized Training Plan Task Book. For more information please refer to the Seminar website at: https://sites.google.com/view/midwestsstrc-darkskies/home

Hamword

This one is just for fun. If you are committee to Wordle you will love this. Each week a new word is chosen. Once you submit your guess on the quarter-hour you will receive your result and you can guess again. See the URL for instructions and scoreboard.

To: HAMWORD

Subject: Anything you want

Body: A 5 letter word

URL: https://hambooks.org/hamword/

Florida Winlink Net

Name: Florida Winlink Net

To: All information at: W4AKH.NET

URL for more information: W4AKH.NET

Day(s)/Time of Week to check in: Runs 24/7, but Tuesday 0900 ET is the break-point for the ‘next week’

Additional Notes: All information at: W4AKH.NET
Runs 24/7, but Tuesday 0900 ET is the break-point for the ‘next week’
They encourage battery or solar power sources.
Checkin by regular RMS, or by P2P sessions.
They have a daily schedule of P2P stations around the US, with varying times on several frequencies, including the upper midwest (WI and MN)

AMLEGNELCO Post 42 Winlink Net

Name: AMLEGNELCO Post 42 Winlink Net

To: AMLEGNELCO

Subject: AMLEG Post 42 Winlink Check-In (or the subject line generated by the Form)

Body: Call Sign, Name, City, County, State or Country (2 Letter abbrev), Band and Mode (See the instructions in the URL)

URL for more information: https://tinyurl.com/AMLEGNELCO-WINLINK-NET

Day(s)/Time of Week to check in: 0001 ET Tuesday and 2359 ET Sunday

Additional Notes: Please check the URL above for additional instructions as the task changes on a weekly basis.