Kenosha County ARES
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The 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 amateur radio operator by joining ARRL, but a "Ham" does not need to be a member of ARRL to participate in ARES. However, Emergency Coordinators (ECs) are required to be ARRL members.
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Monthly Meetings
Kenosha CO. ARES meets at the US Coast Guard Station located at 5036 4th Ave, Kenosha, WI every 4th Thursday of the month at 7pm. Our meeting minutes are uploaded to the Kenosha ARES Yahoo Group and meeting reminders are sent from that group as well.
Jim Markstrom , KB9MMA EC - Kenosha CO.
Weekly Nets
Kenosha Co. ARES has a weekly net on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. CST. We meet on the 147.27 repeater, all ham operators from all states/counties are welcome to join in.
Kenosha ARES Training Net Script
The script we will use is:
Kenosha County ARES Net Script
The Kenosha County ARES/KCARES net is established to provide emergency communications during disaster, significant events, and severe weather, before the net has started choose a back-up.
Start Net: This is [your callsign] net control for the Kenosha County ARES/RACES net. A directed net is now called. All communications will be carried out at the direction of this net control. Your backup net control is [BNC callsign]. AS
The purpose of this net is for the handling of traffic, announcements and other forms of training.
Priority and NTS traffic requests
I will now stand-by for stations with emergency, priority or time valued traffic. BT
Stand-by for any stations that have an immediate need to the repeater. Handle any emergencies appropriately.
Are there any stations with formal written traffic for the net? Please call [your call]. BT
Stand-by for any stations with formal traffic.
Get the destination of the traffic when acknowledging those who checked in. If there is formal traffic listed on the net, you may want to notify the net of that traffic and find out who can pick it up. Log all the stations that check into the net. Also, break in during check-ins to give yourself a break and acknowledge those who have checked in. BK
General Check-In
I will now take general check-ins for the net. Everyone is welcome to the net. Please take care to avoid doubling.
BK
You may wish to break the check-ins into sections to help keep stations from doubling. Common methods of doing this is to ask for check-ins from specific geographic areas or to use alphabetical segments based on the suffix of the callsign. Common alphabetical groups are A-E, F-J, K-O, P-T & U-Z. You may use different methods, based on the situation BT
Announcements
Call any stations with announcement traffic and have them pass that traffic to the net Stations with announcement traffic come now please, [Callsign]
Net Close
This is [your call], net control for the Kenosha County ARES/RACES net. I would like to thank the Backup Net Control, the Lakeshore Repeater Association, for the use of the Repeater; and all of the stations that participated in this net. Your help is greatly appreciated.
All stations are now secured at (time) local time. This is [your call] now releasing the repeater for normal use.
SK
At the conclusion of the net, prepare a net report to be sent to the E.C. via email (kc9eow@yahoo.com or cmarkstrom@volunteercenterofracine.org). The information to be included in the net report consists of the following:
• Net name
• Net date
• Traffic offered/passed
• Total time of net in minutes
• Number of check-ins
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS NEED T-L-C-S
In south-central and southeast Wisconsin (Weather Service) storm spotter training programs request that each submitted storm report utilize the T-L-C-S format. For the newcomer or first time spotter this means using Time-Location-Condition and Source information. More specifically; TIME is when you observe the weather event. LOCATION is your county and the distance/direction from the nearest city reference point. CONDITION is descriptors of what's happening (estimated, measured, speed, depth, degree of damage, etc). SOURCE is the source of the report (your name or ham radio call sign). http://www.mke-skywarn.org/cities.htm
If your location is 4.3 miles southwest of the Bassett reference point, indicate:
4.3 miles Southwest of Bassett, Kenosha Co.
- Bassett .7NW of Intersections of County Trunk KD & County Trunk F
- Benet Lake Intersection of County Trunk V & 122nd St.
- Bristol Intersection of HWY 45 & County Trunk AH
- Kenosha Intersection of South 32 & 60th St.
- New Munster Intersections of Geneva Rd. & 345th Ave.
- Paddock Lake Intersection of South 50 & 244th Ave.
- Pleasant Prairie Intersections 82nd St. & 104th Ave.
- Salem Intersection of South 83 & 83rd Pl.
- Silver Lake Intersections of County Trunk B (Cogswell Dr) & E. Lake St.
- Slades Corners Intersection of South 50 & 396th Ave.
- Somers Intersection of County Trunk E & railroad tracks
- Twin Lakes Intersections. of County Trunk O/Z & County Trunk EM & S. Lake Ave.
- Wilmot Intersection of County Trunk C & County Trunk W
