Racine County ARES

From Megawiki

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.

The Racine County ARES operates the Call sign WI9RAC out of their communications trailer.

Contents 1 Racine County ARES functions 1.1 Recurring Events 1.2 Past Events 2 Training 2.1 Required Training 2.2 Recommended Training 2.3 Racine County EOC Postings 3 See Also 3.1 External Links

Racine County ARES functions

• Special Event Communications
• Help with communications for VOAD.
• Amateur Radio Public Relations

Recurring Events

• ARES Meetings
  Meetings are held on the last Tuesday of each month at 7:00PM except January, April, July and October at a location designated by the EC.
• Racine County ARES practice net
• Racine County ARES Digital Group

Past Events

• 2008 Racine County Fair
• 2008 MC200 Relay Race
• 2008 Red Cross Emergency Activation
• The 2007 Spirit of Racine Triathlon
• The 2006 Spirit of Racine Triathlon
• 2006 Great Midwest Relay race
• April 20th 2006 siren test Local Emergency Siren testing
• RCARES 2005 Triathlon 2005 Spirit of Racine triathlon
• 2005 Great Midwest Relay Race (GMR)
• Triathlon 2004 Spirit of Racine

Training

Required Training

• IS-100 Incident Command System
• IS-700 National Incident Management System

Recommended Training

• IS-242 Effective Communication
• IS-230 Principles of Emergency Management
• IS-235 Emergency Planning

• IS-800 National Response Plan

Racine County EOC Postings

Dave Maack, Racine County Emergency Management Director stated on April 20, 2006 that "Any potential responder to the EOC must have NIMS and ICS training."

This is also required by the Presidential Directive 5 and Presidential Directive 8, so whether you are a ham radio operator or any other volunteer, you will need the training to be able to assist at the EOC.

See Also

• ARES
• EOC
• Kenosha County ARES
• Racine Megacycle Club
• Lakeshore Repeater Association
• Volunteer Center of Racine
• K9RI repeater
• NIMS
• ICS
• HSPD5
• HSPD8
• Badger Emergency Net
• RCARES net
• RCARES plan

External Links

• Racine ARES Webpage
• Racine County Emergency Management
• Racine County Emergency Preparedness
• Hello Radio Public Relations campaign