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What is Milwaukee/Waukesha ARES / RACES? The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) / Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES), consists of licensed amateur radio operators (hams) who have voluntarily registered qualifications and equipment for communications duty in the public service during disasters. ARES / RACES is committed to protect life and property during an emergency. Membership in the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) or any other organization is not required, just a valid Amateur Radio license. Participation in ARES / RACES is voluntary and you may quit at any time. While it makes sense to join ARES / RACES before you are needed, there is nothing to prevent you from offering your services at any time to aid in an ARES / RACES emergency response. The American Radio Relay League administers ARES. Any member can activate the ARES / RACES group. ARES / RACES provides emergency radio communications to a number of clients groups, including local government and the American Red Cross. The Milwaukee/Waukesha ARES / RACES is supported financially by the Amateur Radio Emergency Corp. Inc. (AREC).
Staff Milwaukee Emergency Coordinator: Ken Hahn WK9H Milwaukee County Assistant
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Waukesha Emergency Coordinator: Larry Noldan NZ9I Waukesha County Assistant
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ARES Meetings The Milwaukee/Waukesha ARES / RACES holds its meetings on the first Tuesday of most months. Meetings are usually held at the Milwaukee Red Cross building located at 26th Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The meetings start at 7:00 PM. Everyone is invited to attend. Be sure to confirm the meeting location before going to the Red Cross building, check often for updates. After most meetings many of us go out to Balistreri's Italian-American Ristorante (on 68th St.) for Pizza.
Nets The Milwaukee/Waukesha ARES / RACES sponsors a weekly net on Monday evenings at 9:00 PM local time. The net is held on the 147.165+ repeater. The weekly net is open to all amateur operators and simulates communications for training under controlled conditions as well as providing news and announcements of general interest to the group. Join us in the web chat during the Monday evening net. Wisconsin ARES/RACES holds a HF net Sunday nights at 6:00PM local time. The primary frequency is 3977.5 KHz with 3975 KHz as a secondary or depending on band conditions 7250 KHz Primary and 7245 KHz secondary. All are welcome to listen and amateurs general class or higher are welcome to check in.
Mailing list We have a mailing list at YAHOO! groups to keep our members connected via email.
Wisconsin ARES/RACES has a group you may want to consider the Wisconsin ARES YAHOO! group.
ARRL Audio News The ARRL Audio News is provided as a service to local amateurs by the Milwaukee/Waukesha ARES / RACES. The news is usually played twice a week on Sunday morning at 9:45 am and on Monday nights before the weekly net at 8:45 pm local time in Milwaukee on the 147.165 repeater. Audio news will not be played if there is an event or emergency in progress. ARRL E-Letter ARES news and information from the ARRL, can be viewed on the web or if you are an ARRL member you can receive it by email. Repeater Info (147.165+) CTCSS Tone 127.3Hz The Milwaukee 147.165 (+) offset repeater is located 525 feet above Milwaukee Wisconsin. All users are welcome. All equipment in the repeater system is of commercial quality. To improve coverage, the repeater has a system of remote receiver antenna sites in the area. The system is currently being rebuilt in order to keep serving our needs in the future. Phase one of the system upgrade has been completed. The new hub was placed into operation on November 10, 2002, previous to that the Vilet site was upgraded, and after that date additional programming to the controller was done. A frequency change to 147.165 (+) offset occurred on March 6th 2005.Our ARES / RACES group had used the frequency of 146.67 since 1967 we moved to have the benefits of a clearer frequency. More work will continue to occur with additional controller programming to be the most noticeable. To help stations that cross-band the repeater system only encodes tone while there is a active receiver. There are site IDs that are sent when stations un-key. the site that is most voted is sent in MCW. Currently they are E, D, and V E is the East Side, D is Downtown, and V is Vilet. Other sites when added will get their own ID. The site IDs are sent after a station un-keys and during that time is normally not tone encoded, so in order to hear the ID you must be listening with your tone decoder turned off. If you use a cross-band repeater to access the system please be sure that it is operating properly as there have been some instances of malfunctioning cross-band users tying up the system due to DX, or other issues affecting individuals cross-banders. Cross-band repeaters can be a major asset during emergencies or events but only if they are operating properly, when they malfunction they become a liability in the worst way, don't become part of a problem. D-Star Milwaukee has a new Digital Voice user group Milwaukee Area Digital Users Group (MADOG), the group has a club call of KC9LKZ for the repeater. In May 2007 a 1.2Ghz voice and data machine was installed and running at the community site at 600 feet. The frequency for the 23cm digital voice is 1290.050 (-) offset. The D-Star Data repeater is at 1298.000 simplex. Plans are in the works to have an internet connection to the repeater hopefully by June 2007 for internet data followed by its gateway. The 2m repeater is on 145.25 (-) offset and was upgraded to digital in late May 2007 this system will support analog and digital. The UHF machine
up and running as of July 7, 2007. It's frequency is 442.46875 (+)
offset and the cross-banding feature on the 1.2 Ghz machine works
well. Check the ARES Links for digital mode internet links of interest. Packet RadioMilwaukee and Waukesha ARES / RACES operate several packet nodes in Southeastern Wisconsin, and are part of the ARES packet network. Packet node ARMKE / W9WK-9 was returned to service on June 26, 2002 after a year’s hiatus and is currently located at the Milwaukee Red Cross building. ARWSH W9WK-4, is located at Waukesha Memorial Hospital (currently off the air), which is under repair. UESARC / W9WK-3 is located at the Waukesha Red Cross building and was put into service on February 26, 2003. Both nodes operate on 145.610 MHz, which is allocated for statewide ARES use. An affiliated Node WIMKE / KB9MMC-2, and BBS. MLARES / KB9MMC, is home to the Milwaukee and Waukesha ARES Packet BBS and can be accessed on 145.610 MHz at 1200 Baud. The BBS automatically forwards packet mail to Racine County ARES BBS: WIRACA / KB9MMA; Ozaukee County ARES BBS: OZARES / N9PBY; Sullivan National Weather Service: WX9MKX, and Wisconsin Emergency Management in Madison: WC9AAG. In addition to automatic mail forwarding the BBS has the latest ARRL and AMSAT Bulletins, along with several databases, including a QRZ callsign database. Telpac Node KB9MMC-10 is available on 144.930 MHz for messaging Check the Winlink 2000 website for more information.
ATV Currently under construction is an ATV repeater system there will be two inputs one on 1253.250MHz AM and another input on 2.4GHz FM on a exact frequency to be determined, the output will be 421.250MHz AM which is the same channel as Cable TV channel 57, running 10W into a Sinclair 10 Db antenna at 1100' above ground.
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