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Bay Area 2 Meter
Net: 8:45pm Tuesdays on 147.120+ Repeater 107.2 PL
Badger
Emergency Net : Daily 12 noon 3985 KHz
Wisconsin
ARES/RACES Net : Sunday 8:00am 3967 KHz Secondary 3977.5 KHz
Wisconsin
ARES/RACES East Central District Net : First Thursday 7:30pm WINET 443.400 MHz PL 100
Wisconsin
ARES/RACES Digital Winlink Net : Every Tuesday 145.610 MHz Simplex. There are 3 stations in the area: WE9COM-10 (Hortonville), KC9OIS-10, (Briarton) and KB9BYP-10 (Appleton). Check in anytime after midnight Monday until midnight
Tuesday. Check in with CHECK IN in the Subject, and your call sign, name,
city and county in the body. Send your check in to BOTH of the following:
wb9rqr@winlink.org (Digital Net Control Station - DNCS)
wi9rac@winlink.org (Backup DNCS)
Log in to ARES Database.
You do not need to be a member of ARES to register. Please fill in all tabs.
The purpose of the ARES Registration Database is to provide a means of
collecting information from ARES members (and potential members) that is often
needed by Resource Managers and Emergency Coordinators. Accurate information is
essential to assembling resources for emergencies and other events supported by
ARES. Your willingness to volunteer communications support during emergencies
and also as a community service is commendable. Taking the time to complete the
registration will insure that ARES Staff members can assemble response teams
with skills and equipment that best fit the current needs.
Welcome to the Brown
County ARES/RACES Site. ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency
Services) and RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services)
are nationally two separate organizations, however, in the
State of Wisconsin, they operate together transparently under
the direction of Wisconsin ARES/RACES group. Emergencies can
include floods, tornadoes, winter and summer storms, airplane
crashes, large scale fires, pandemic outbreaks or any thing
that might disrupt or strain normal communications for
hospitals, government agencies and private disaster response
organizations.
Brown County
ARES/RACES is an organization of ham radio operators who
volunteer their expertise, time and resources to provide
primary and supplemental communications to government
agencies, private disaster response organizations and other
nonprofit organizations of Brown County, Wisconsin as well as
providing support to ARES/RACES organizations in surrounding
counties.
When the National Weather Service issues a
"severe weather watch for Brown County", a "Severe
Weather Net" of trained observers is activated on
147.120+ 107.2 pl . These reports are then passed by the Net
Control Operator to the NWS liason on 444.775+ 107.2
pl reporting directly to the NWS where hams operate a
communications console. The trained observers often drive out
into the area of the storm in order to give actual sightings
and verify the existence of ground touching tornados.
A Severe Weather Net
operates as a direct reporting agency of real-time live
observation of severe weather activity or severe weather
potential through direct radio communications with the local
office of the National Weather Service. We work very closely
with the County Emergency Management Department. Besides
serving as the backup communications for any outages, weather
events are most prevalent.
All these observations
are communicated to the National Weather Service to provide
you with early warning. In Wisconsin, the majority of ARES
members are trained SkyWarn storm spotters. With SkyWarn, the
training consists of learning to "read" the sky. This session
by the National Weather Service, covers the latest in the
methods of determining what type of storm is observed. Items
such as "wall clouds, wind shear, down drafts, anvil top
clouds and tornados". Often times, an ARES SkyWarn net will
transform into a damage assessment and relief coordination
network for the emergency government immediately after
damaging severe weather passes through.
REMEMBER.... When there is
severe weather in and around NORTHEAST WISCONSIN THE
NWS/SKYWARN MORE THAN LIKELY WILL BE USING THE 444.775
REPEATER! PLEASE MONITOR BEFORE USING ECHOLINK AND ALWAYS
IDENTIFY WITH YOUR CALLSIGN BEFORE ACTIVATING ECHOLINK.
Disaster Communications classes and
drills are held several times every year to insure that
hams are all passing communications the same way to avoid
confusion and to increase the proficiency and exactness of the
data communicated. There is more training
available through the A.R.R.L., FEMA and our own talented
members.
Realtime APRS map
ARES/RACES meetings:
Third Wednesday of the month at 7 pm.
State Agricultural Bldg.
1150 Bellevue Street
Green Bay, WI
Map
Green Bay Mike & Key Club
meetings:
Second Thursday of
the month at 7 pm.
J.M.
Science Bldg.
St.
Norbert's College
De Pere,
WI
Map
If you need directions to
either meeting there is usually someone listening to 147.120
pl of 107.2.
More information about:
Wisconsin ARES/RACES
Wisconsin Emergency Management
Wisconsin Emergency Communications
Net Control Training
Kentucky ARES/RACES Online Training Link
Amateur Radio Relay League
ARES National Home Page
RACES National Home Page
Brown County C.E.R.T. (Community Emergency Response Team)
SkyWarn National Home Page
