Overcast with Haze , W°
Current conditions in Burlington
Fog/Mist , W°
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010.
From the National Weather Service in Sullivan, WI... Hydrologic Outlook - Racine (Wisconsin) - SOME FLOODING POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT WEEK... - A PROLONGED PERIOD OF WET WEATHER IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE COMING WEEKEND. NUMEROUS ROUNDS OF RAIN WILL TRACK ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN IN ASSOCIATION WITH A HUGE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPING TO OUR SOUTHWEST. THE LOW WILL MOVE EAST AT AN EXCEPTIONALLY SLOW PACE... TAKING UNTIL EARLY NEXT WEEK TO GET OUT OF HERE. - THE RAINFALL... IN ADDITION TO THE MELTING SNOW AND SATURATED SOILS COULD LEAD TO SOME RIVERS EXCEEDING FLOOD STAGE OVER THE NEXT WEEK. - RIVER FORECASTS BASED ON EXPECTED RAINFALL AND EXISTING SOIL CONDITIONS INDICATE THAT THE FOX... PECATONICA AND SUGAR RIVER BASINS IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN COULD FLOOD. - OTHER SMALLER RIVERS AND STREAMS PRONE TO QUICK FLOODING MAY BECOME PROBLEMATIC AS WELL. - INTERESTS ALONG THESE WATERWAYS SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING AND STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. - $$ DAVIS Issuing Weather Forecast Office Homepage
From the National Weather Service in Sullivan, WI... Short Term Forecast - Racine (Wisconsin) - MONTELLO... BERLIN... FOND DU LAC... SHEBOYGAN... BARABOO... PORTAGE... WISCONSIN DELLS... BEAVER DAM... WEST BEND... PORT WASHINGTON... DODGEVILLE... MADISON... JEFFERSON... LAKE MILLS... WAUKESHA... BROOKFIELD... MILWAUKEE... DARLINGTON... MONROE... JANESVILLE... BELOIT... ELKHORN... LAKE GENEVA... RACINE... KENOSHA 1128 PM CST TUE MAR 9 2010 - .NOW... - LOOK FOR A BAND OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN SHOWERS TO LIFT NORTH AT 30 MPH FROM A LONE ROCK... MADISON TO LAKE GENEVA LINE. THE BAND WILL EXTEND FROM THE DELLS TO KENOSHA BY MIDNIGHT... AND OXFORD... BEAVER DAM... TO MILWAUKEE BETWEEN 1230 AM AND 1 AM. - EXPECT RAINFALL RATES OF 0NE QUARTER INCH TO ONE HALF INCH PER HOUR WITH THE HEAVIER SHOWERS IN THIS BAND. - ANOTHER BROAD AREA OF SHOWERS WILL LIFT FROM NORTHERN ILLINOIS REACHING LAFAYETTE AND SOUTHWEST GREEN COUNTIES BETWEEN 130 AM AND 2 AM... OVERSPREADING ALL OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN DURING THE OVERNIGHT. - ELSEWHERE... LOOK FOR AREAS OF FOG... ESPECIALLY OVER SHEBOYGAN COUNTY WHERE VISIBILITIES DOWN TO 1/4 MILE ARE POSSIBLE. AS THE RAIN MOVES IN... VISIBILITIES WILL IMPROVE TO AROUND 2 MILES. - $$ REM Issuing Weather Forecast Office Homepage
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.
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.
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
ARRL News
Bob Schroeder, N2HX, Awarded 2009 Bill Orr, W6SAI, Technical Writing Award
H. Robert "Bob" Schroeder, N2HX, of Ewing, New Jersey, has been named the winner of the ARRL Foundation's 2009 Bill Orr, W6SAI, Technical Writing Award for his article "Electromagnetic Pulse and Its Implications for EmComm" that appeared in November 2009 issue of QST. The editorial staff commented on Schroeder's article, saying that "the topic of nuclear EMP is somewhat esoteric by itself, let alone discussing its impact on Amateur Radio, yet the author did an outstanding job of making the subject matter understandable even to the relatively non-technical ham. His writing is clear and to the point, offering practical advice not only for EMP mitigation as it applies to the unlikely event of a nuclear burst, but also extending the same principles to mitigation for lightning damage."
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Hamvention® Awards Deadline Is March 15
There are only a few days left to nominate individuals and clubs for the 2010 Dayton Hamvention® awards. While the Special Achievement Award, Technical Excellence Award and Amateur of the Year Award have been given for many years, Hamvention Awards Chairman Frank Beafore, WS8B, told the ARRL that in 2010, the Hamvention Awards Committee will also present a special award to the Amateur Radio Club of the Year. That award is tied to this year’s Hamvention theme, Amateur Radio Clubs Worldwide: The Lifeline. March 15 is the deadline for nominations for all four awards; winners will be notified in April and publicly honored at the 2010 Dayton Hamvention in May. Information on how to nominate a person or club for these awards is available at on the Dayton Hamvention Web site. Take this opportunity to recognize a special individual or club for their efforts on behalf of Amateur Radio.
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The ARRL Second Homebrew Challenge -- And the Winners Are...
We had a good response to the Second ARRL Homebrew Challenge -- here's a quick summary.
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Radio Club de Chile Lists Emergency Frequencies, E-mail Address
Radio Club de Chile (RCCH) President Dr Galdino Besomi, CE3PG, reports that the situation in Chile is “very complex” as the country suffers aftershocks registering 6.0 or higher after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Chile on February 27. “Red Chilena Nor Austral de Servicio (RECNA) and RCCH networks are working in coordination whit the Army of Chile, handling information about people localization, condition of roads and support for the emergency administration,” IARU Region 2 (Area G) Emergency Coordinator Jorge Sierra, LU1AS, told he ARRL. He has asked the amateur community to keep the following frequencies free from non-essential, emergency traffic: 14.200, 7.050, 7.095 and 3.738 MHz. “Other frequencies could be in use, especially on 40 meters. Before using any frequency it is very important to make sure it’s free,” he advised. The RCCH has set up an e-mail address where people can request information concerning people affected by the earthquakes.
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The K7RA Solar Update
Two new sunspot groups appeared on March 1, numbered 1052 and 1053. The total number of sunspot groups appearing over the last month is 11. Looking at our 3-month moving average of daily sunspot numbers, the latest for December-January-February is 22.4, for the period centered on January. The average daily sunspot number for the month of February was 31. The fact that this is higher than the latest 3-month average is a welcome trend. The current 3-month average centered on January 2010 is very close to the 3-month average centered on January 2007, which was 22.7. That moving average has not been as high since. In fact, the closest it has been was February 2007, at 18.5. It was all downhill from there, and that average was below 10 from September 2007-October 2009. It now looks like we saw three minimums, which is why it was so easy to err when trying to locate the bottom. Several times we hit some low number, decided that things were improving, and then a few months later hit it again.
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Surfin': Using the Internet as a Public Service Radio Scanner
This week, Surfin' discovers yet another use for the Internet in the RF world.
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ARRL Seeks Input for New IARU Region 2 Band Plan
The International Amateur Radio Region 2 conference -- held later this year in El Salvador -- brings together delegations from the national Amateur Radio Societies in the Western Hemisphere. One of the topics on the agenda will be the Region 2 HF band plan. This band plan is "harmonized with" -- spectrum management-speak for "very similar to" -- the IARU Region 1 and Region 3 band plans.
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FCC Reaffirms Statement on ROS
In mid-February, European amateurs first used a new, experimental digital mode known as ROS. On February 23, 2010 -- after FCC review of the original documents provided from the developer's Web site -- the FCC made the following statements on ROS:
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