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Racine County ARES/RACES

The Racine County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) is the field arm of the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL). The League deals with all aspects of Amateur Radio, including legislation, licensing, and contests; the ARES branch specifically deals with communications during emergencies. When you hear in the news that Amateur Radio operators were part of a search and rescue operation, assisted in getting aid to a ship in trouble at sea, or provided communications for a Red Cross shelter, you're hearing about an ARES function.

You become an ARES member by completing the required training and signing up with your local emergency co-ordinator, but that does not mean you have to be a member of ARRL to participate in ARES.

Fox Hunt

The next Fox Hunt will be Friday May 28, 2010 at 7:30 PM. Participants will meet at the west end parking lot at Regency Mall in Racine, WI.

Net script

I have posted an updated netsript.

http://www.w9udu.org/wiki/index.php/RCARES_net

Looking for more feedback. Thanks to all the members who provide feedback to make our organization better.

mailto:Jim@Kb9mma.com

APRS update

We now have a local GPS APRS map of stations on our website! Click on the Racine GPS map on the left or go to the link http://www.rcares.org/aprs.php Want to download software for this, after going to this link you can then download the software you need. You can do this with a soundcard even, more to come!

Events

For the events listing for the organization please see http://www.rcares.org/calandar.php. This will have all meetings and Events posted.

CTCSS Tone Access on 147.27MHz

Attention all hams

Due to a change initiated by the Wisconsin Association of Repeaters, the two meter Lakeshore repeater has added a CTCSS. (CA) or carrier access is not allowed per the co-ordination body of Wisconsin, this is a mandate. Their website is http://www.wi-repeaters.org.

The new settings are: 147.270MHz+ tone127.3Hz.

Questions about the system can be sent to president@kr9rk.org.

Donations

You can make donations to Racine County ARES/RACES on a tax deduction 501c3 contact Jim Markstrom at 262-909-3996 or mailto:ec@rcares.org

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