To make room for families and celebration Dane/Iowa county ARES/RACES will have NO in-person meetings November or December of 2025. We will however conduct our normal Net Meeting at 8:00 PM on those Wednesdays as usual.
Author Archives: Emergency Coordinator
“Bonus” 10 meter net tonight (Nov 19)
After our usual 2 meter net at 8:00 let’s see how a 10 meter net would work. We need to leave enough time to make the change from 2 meters to 10 meters so let’s plan to start a 10 meter net at 8:30 and see how well we propagate. We’ll plan our frequency so everyone with the proper equipment, technician and above can participate. Jeff, K9UNZ, will be net control (for the 10 meter net, Patrick, NT9A is NC for the 2 meter net this week). We will gather at 28.350 at 8:30 pm and if that frequency is being used we will move to 28.375. This will also be a good opportunity for those who might have trouble checking in on our normal 2 meter net to participate as well.
October 2025 In-Person Meeting
October 29, 2025, 7:00 PM is our next in person meeting of the Dane/Iowa County ARES/RACES team. There will be no Net Meeting on that night. We’ll be meeting at the Dane County Emergency Operations center at 2982 Kapec Rd, Fitchburg, WI 53719. For those who cannot be there in person we will have a virtual connection to the meeting.
We’ll have a couple agenda items. I have a slide deck that was used for October ARES/RACES Training in the State entitled Volunteerism: What Do Clients Expect from us? I’d like to walk through it and get feedback from the team. We will also review what 2025 looked like and lessons learned as well as start to get ready for 2026
The virtual connection information for those who can’t be there in person was sent to team members in an email. If you did not receive that information please send an email to kb9orn@gmail.com.
Bike the Barns 2026
Bike the Barns 2026 will ride on September 20, 2026. In the meantime you can find their website at: https://www.csacoalition.org/bike-the-barns
Dairyland Dare 2026
The Dairyland Dare 2026 will ride on August 1, 2026. In the meantime their website can be found at: https://www.dairylanddare.com/
Horribly Hilly Hundreds 2026
In 2026 the Horribly Hilly Hundreds will ride on June 13, 2026. More Information will be added as it becomes available. In the meantime you can follow their website at: https://www.friendsofbluemound.org/horribly-hilly-hundreds-bike-ride/
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 the log see the links below.
- Overview of how the net will be conducted: https://fillian.net/2025setoverview
- Net frequencies (ICS205): https://fillian.net/2025setfreq
- Net Script: https://fillian.net/2025setscript
- Net log: https://fillian.net/2025setlog (this only includes the MARA15 log – I’ll correct this soon)
- Map of Contacts: https://fillian.net/2025setmap
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 discuss our plans. We hope to include the EOC, some hospitals and folk at home or on the road.
There will be no Net Meeting on that night.
For those of you who can’t attend in person, the virtual connection information has been sent out in an email. If you haven’t received the email please send a note to kb9orn@gmail.com.
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. Operations are then from 8AM-5PM. We will be teamed up with others to form strike teams to conduct the surveys. we should expect to download the survey1-2-3 app on our phones. The command post where we will be trained is the Glendale Fire Station #2, 5901 N. Milwaukee River Pky.
Please let me know at me@k9unz.me if and what days you are able to activate.
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!