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    Affiliated with WISCONSIN ARES®/RACES  
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    Be sure to check the Twitter feed on the State ARES/RACES website often!    
    Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 - next regular meeting at Montello.   Pizza at the meeting.      
    REGULAR MEETING – Last Tuesday of the month at 7:00 P.M. - Public Safety Room/        
    Emergency Management Office - Courthouse - Montello  (77 W. Park St.)            
    Notes from previous meeting: http://mqcares.org/newsletters/MinutesJune28.pdf            
                               
    Thank you to Mike Bourdeau, President of the Marquette County Fire Association, for the training on the zone maps.  
    146.745 Repeater with negative offset - 123.0 Tone - Montello  KC9ASQ              
    146.565 Simplex (Alternate Frequency)                      
    NET – Sunday Evenings at 7:30 P.M. on the repeater.                
    contacts:                          
    David Conway - Emergency Coordinator (W1VOW)       ec@mqcares.org        
    Randy Hansen - Assistant Emergency Coordinator (WI9D)       rhansen318@gmail.com      
                               
    Gary Sorensen - Sullivan Committee Rep. (W9ULK)       w9ulk@yellowthunder.org      
                               
    To get your local forecast from the National Weather Service- Sullivan go to the link below and type your      
    zip code in the box near the top left side of their main page and click "Go"              
          LINK TO NWS SULLIVAN              
                               
    If interested in training to be a Severe Weather backbone relay station check with W1VOW or W9ULK for info.      
    Next backbone training will be June 14th at the Sauk Co. ARES/RACES meeting - Baraboo.      
    all Wisconsin Severe Weather Spotter Classes listed here:   http://www.mke-skywarn.org/schedule.htm   
                               
                               
          LINK TO H1N1 FLU INFO PAGE FOR WISCONSIN      
                               
    Ready Wisconsin website recommended by SEC Skip Sharpe LINK TO READY WISCONSIN        
                               
                               
                               
    LINK TO 2009 SET INFO   2010 SET INFO - LINK TO STATE WEBSITE PAGE.    
                               
    We would like to thank Columbia County ARES/RACES member Brian Smith (KG9OG) for all of his assistance in        
    attending meetings, teaching and programming WinLink at our EOC and the portable/mobile units.          
    He is a great technical advisor!                      
                               
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    Sullivan Weather training - 4th Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m.                  
    Training Session on 147.315 (+) Yellow Thunder Repeater                  
    123.0 tone - simulated reporting of severe weather                    
    ** useful training for spotters and relay stations! **                    
    alternate frequency is 145.37 (-) 123.0 tone - KC9FNM repeater                  
    Please listen and participate!                      
                               
                               
                               
                               
    ZILCH TIME MEANS COME JOIN THE GROUP FOR A BREAKFAST, LUNCH OR DINNER OUT!      
    JUST AN INFORMAL HAM RADIO OPERATOR/FAMILY/FRIENDS GET TOGETHER.              
    watch here for plans for the next one                      
                               
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    http://30boxes.com/user/8106598/GarySorensen Click the welcome link to go to our calendar!          
                               
                               
                               
                               
    MEETING NOTES   Thank you to Tracy Weaver, and Dave and Kris Conway for the meeting notes!        
                               
    USEFUL LINKS   Links to other sites of interest                  
                               
    FILES PAGE   Files for membership (password protected)              
                               
    APRS MAP PAGE   Link to APRS map of the area courtesy of openaprs.net centered on Montello        
                               
    PIO INFO   PIO Information - various sources                
                               
    TRAINING INFO   Training Information for ARES/RACES                
                               
    HAM RADIO NEWS   News related to Amateur Radio from the U.S.              
                               
                               
    PHOTOS   The photo library has started and will be growing!              
                               
                               
                               
                               
    Who and what is Marquette County ARES/RACES?                  
    MQCARES is Marquette County's ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) and RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service).  
    ARES is sponsored by a private, non-profit organization, the American Radio Relay League (ham radio national organization).    
    RACES is sponsored by the U.S. Government Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and is administered in our state by    
    Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM).                    
                               
    MQCARES members are all Amateur Radio Operators, individually licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. They are    
    trained emergency communicators who have volunteered personal time, skill and equipment to serve in the public interest.      
    The members have taken ICS 100 and IS 700 to be compliant with NIMS and Incident Command requirements for volunteers.  Members  
    have also taken the basic weather spotting class from the National Weather Service.  Some members have gone beyond this in their training  
    and/or careers when it comes to public safety and emergency communications training/experience.          
                               
    While MQCARES is a private, volunteer organization, it is attached to the Marquette County Emergency Management Office by mutual    
    consent through a memorandum of understanding.                    
    Our parent organization (Wisconsin ARES/RACES) maintains the relationship with the National Weather Service, Wisconsin Emergency  
    Mangement, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the Red Cross and Salvation Army, Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) -  
    all known to us as "served agencies."                      
                               
                               
    We welcome Les Crandall as the new Emergency Manager of Marquette County.              
    Thank you to Kristine Leverich and Nathan Luedke for helping strengthen our organization.            
                               
   
America's Quiet Warriors    
                             
    America's quiet warriors are the legion of ham radio operators, 700,000 of them, who are always at ready for backup duty    
    in emergencies – amateur, unpaid, uncelebrated, civilian radio operators, during and after floods and fires and tornadoes.     
    After the 9/11 attacks, hams were indispensable in reuniting friends and families. Most recently it was they who     
    expedited the search for debris after the disaster to the space shuttle Columbia, and right now, at this moment, they are     
    involved in homeland security to a greater degree than you would want me to make public.         
    — Paul Harvey News and Comment, ABC Radio, March 19, 2003               
                               
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