What do I need when responding to an emergency event?
First, your safety is Number One. So your clothing, including shoes, should be concidered.  Cold or hot, fallen wires, boards with nails and wet or dry.
A "Go Kit" with flashlight, extra batteries, medications, your radio operation book, clip board, paper, pens, pencils, bottle of water, snacks, personal hygene "stuff" , extra socks, head set,  two way radio, 24 hour power supply, portable antenna and cable. If you have a high visibility vest and a hard hat, they are good to have along.

As you prepare to leave home, be sure to let your family know where you are going and where the family contact point will be in case you are separated.  Make that contact place somewhere out of the area.

*You will need indentification*. Hopefully, a ARES/RACES I.D. or a county I.D.  If not, a copy of your FCC license. Be able to give a contact phone number in case we need to contact a family member
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Where do I go when volunteering?
In Brown County, we will have a staging area.  To find it, have your radio on the repeater frequency of 147.120 + 107.2 pl or 444.775 + 107.2pl.  If the repeater is down,  the repeater output frequency in simplex.

In the staging area, you will be given information on what the event is, the possible dangers, what it is you will be doing and where.  You will have to fill out a form which we use to keep tract of your location.  On half of the form, will be frequencies that will be used during the event as well as other contacts.

VHF- Copper tube J-Pole ..  HF Hustler

Concider purchasing Anderson Power Poles and using them in your power supply lines.  We are using them and they are the national ARES standard.
If everyone uses them, you will always have a power source. 
Contact Mike and Keyclub (link on page one)

THOSE WE NEED TO THANK
Mike and Key Club
Brown County Emerg. Mgmnt.
Bellin Hospital
St. Mary's Hospital
St. Vincent's Hospital
Local Emergency Planning Comm.
National Weather Service
Green Bay Press Gazette
Green Bay Community Foundation
Present members
K9BOB   K9GB    KB8ZXE  KB9KIX KC9MPG
KB9QAK   KB9QAL  KC9BLE  KC9LWE
KC9OIS  KS9WI N8KQS N9ARM  N9GDW
N9VJL NA9J  W0LFE  W3TOS  W9JES WB9NR

AB9NN   W9ARM  KC9LWE KC9PGH ALR7H

How to use this form

DO YOU CARRY A FLASHLIGHT IN YOUR CAR?
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CHECKED BATTERIES?
PEN OR PENCIL?
HOW ABOUT A BOTTLE OF WATER IN THECAR?
CAN YOU EASILY TAKE YOUR RADIO OUT OF THE CAR?

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samples of completed forms

This is a National Traffic System form. The use of it, standardizes the way messages are passed as well as simplifies it.  Formal and priority traffic will use this form, where as, the tactical messages will be straight forward..
All communications will be logged and the logs turned in to the Emergency Coordinator or Assistants.

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TRAINING 2009

April – Tornado Awareness Week

June - Field Day - Mobile EComm

July
Field Operations -Farm Technology Days

August - Disaster Drill
September
October
Simulated Emergency Test
November
Projects - Connectors - safety
December
Pizza, Planning and Pondering

New Ham Band Plan
As you may or may not know, the Ham bands changes have been approved
For a color chart go to:
www.arrl.org/announce/regulatory/wt04-140/Hambands3_color.pdf

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A MOBILE RADIO AND ONLY A HANDHELD, HAVE YOU CONCIDERED HOW YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO OPERATE OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.??

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