MARQUETTE ARES/RACES MEETING NOTES 

Monthly Meeting November 24, 2009 

Meeting was called to order at 7 pm. 

  • October 27, 2009 meeting minutes were read and accepted.

 There was discussion on public safety severe weather reports being relayed to Sullivan Weather. There was discussion on previous meetings on which direction we should pursue. Mike invited Gary and Dave to the county fire meeting in Princeton on              January 19 2009 at 7:30pm to discuss this with the county fire association.

  • The December Holiday Zilch was announced. It will be December 12 2009 at 6:30pm at Good Old Days Resort east of Montello off County Road C.
  • Dave announced the SET statistics were submitted.
  • Net control for December will be Dave W1VOW.
  • Dave announced to Marquette County residents that they should register with the Code Red system.
  • There are weather radios still available at the EM office.
  • We discussed our MOU and talked about changes additions and updates.
  • Dave asked everyone if they had a safety vest and they did. We have two extra vests and one set of severe weather signs.
  • Dave explained that we need to do an inventory of Health department equipment, EM equipment, and ARES equipment and forward a report to the Health director and EM.
  • Mike Dave and Gary attended an ICS-300 course held in Montello. Mike gave a detailed explanation of the class.
  • Gary gave a report on break tags as presented by Dennis Rybicke. They have been used with great success in emergency service nets.
  • Dave presented a letter he has drafted to County Hams to inform them of the ARES Group and to recruit members. The group approved it.
  • We discussed our newspaper announcements for the net and monthly meetings. We need to look into this.
  • The meeting room needs to be reserved for 2010.
  • We need to update and copy our local ARES flyer.
  • The group will implement a purchasing policy which would require any purchase over fifty dollars ($50.00) to be agreed on by the EC, AEC, and Treasurer.
  • Next meeting December 29, 2009 at 7 pm in the public safety meeting room.

Respectfully submitted, 
 
Dave Conway,  W1VOW

 

Marquette County ARES/RACES meeting

March 31st, 2009

 

Attendees:

Tracy                     KC9FWF

Kevin                     KC9FWE and EC

Mike  

Don                       K9JYX

Keith                      N6ORS

Cindy                     KG6OEO

Gary                      W9ULK

Dave                      W1VOW

Brian                      KG9OG

Les Crandall            Marquette EM

 

Meeting began at 19:03

 

Agenda as follows:

 

          Net meeting schedule discussion: Should we schedule each net meeting for the month? Result- each monthly meeting a volunteer will be requested to cover each net meeting and if not able then it is up to the volunteer to find a substitute. April’s Volunteer is Dave-W1VOW.

 

          Weather Spotters & General weather discussion: Sullivan Weather training will be on the 28th of April at 20:00 on Yellow Thunder frequency (***** add It), and Marquette and Columbia counties are expected to participate. In order to prepare for the simulation, we will be having a practice check in during our weekly nets to provide some experience to those willing to try using the TLCS format. So the regular check in will start the net meeting then the simulation will follow, till the last Sunday so all will be confident in their skills.

 

          A short discussion occurred on not having a MOU with the Marquette Sheriff’s Office for our group to pass along information to Sullivan during weather events. A concern was brought up about once an agreement was made whether the obligation could be met by the group. The discussion ended at looking for current proposals that other counties are using, so we have a guide line to what is working and how we might structure the agreement for our circumstances.

 

          Don made Skywarn ID cards for the group, and will be given out at the end of the meeting. This cards will help facilitate the reporting process, and also help identify

 

February 24, 2009

Marquette County ARES/RACES Meeting notes 

Attendees:

KEVIN-KC9FWE, TRACY-KC9FWF, DAVE- W1VOW, BRIAN- KG9OG, DON-KC9JYX, GARY-W9ULK Mike Bourdeau 

The meeting opened at 19: 15 with greetings and introductions. 

Les Crandall met the group as the EM director.  

The entire group needs to apply to E-Sponder. 

The weather software will be installed on the ARES/RACES computer in the EOC at $79 with a monthly subscription of $10 for the APRS tracking and ect. 

Weather spotting classes are coming up, and advanced severe weather training is offered in Wheaton, IL from March 13th through the 14th. 

The March Zilch will be held at the MSO at Noon on the 7th with pizza and soda available to all those who attend. We will be working on the portable WINlink station.  

The Meeting ended at 19:50 in order to listen to the Sullivan Back-bone training on 147.315.

 

January 27, 2009

Marquette County ARES/RACES Meeting notes 

Attendees:

KEVIN-KC9FWE, TRACY-KC9FWF, SANDY- W9SKE, RICH GREEN- KC9FNM, DAVE- W1VOW, BRIAN- KG9OG, DON-KC9JYX,GARY-W9ULK,

TONY- KC9NGH KIM- KC9OOD, MARISSA-KC9OOA, MASON-KC9OOB 

Pizza was available before the meeting for all who attended. 

The meeting opened with greetings and introductions. 

Old Business: 

·         The Zilch for February will be at Firehouse Family Diner in Neshkoro at 9:30 am

·         Yellow Thunder’s Zilch is every last Sunday of the month at 10:30 am South of Baraboo at the Farm Kitchen.

·         The Storm Spotter training is March 17th at the Services Building in Montello at 6:30-8:30 pm.

·         New member guidelines will be discussed further in order to be eligible for the HT raffle: most attendance, certified storm spotter, so on.

·         Sullivan Weather training will begin February 24th and will be every 4th Thursday barring a weather event on repeater 147.315 PL 123 from 8pm-8:45.

·         The new HTs and WinLink equipment has arrived.

·         Jim Darrow will be attending Columbia County’s ARES/RACES meeting on April 16th to give a presentation about how to use WinLink.

·         Yellow Thunder will be linking repeaters for severe weather outbreaks with Richland and Vernon County’s repeaters.

·         The Marquette County Fire District Association meeting report: ARES/RACES is now on the roll call and is expected to attend each meeting. A schedule for a member will be discussed at a later date. Coloma Fire Department brought their smoke/tornado simulator to the meeting as the Association is looking at purchasing one for the county. Gary and Dave thought it was quite an experience.

·         SET Forms need to be filled out tonight as they are due soon.

·         Our own pamphlet needs to be revisited as there was interest that our group has something similar to Dane County’s

 

New Business:

·         Columbia County ARES/RACES is sponsoring a Fox Hunt this Spring.

·         District Meeting for Columbia/Sauk will be at Cross Plains Fire Department on March 1st from 10am to 3pm; it is a Sunday.

 

November 12th, 2008

Attendees: Tom Kucharski from Sullivan

Kevin- KC9FWE, Rich- KC9FMN, Dave- W9VOW, Gary- W9ULK, Randy- WI9D, Tracy- KC9FWF,  Joe Konrath- Chief Deputy of MSO 

Agenda:

·         Introductions of those attending

·         Discussing how to send verified true accurate weather information to Sullivan from Marquette and Columbia county ARES/RACES in order for Sullivan to give accurate Warning/Watches.

·         Planning a meeting at a future date in order to set down guidelines for sending information on to Sullivan- those to be included (Sheriff’s office, Emergency Management, Fire District Association, and Sullivan Committee.)

·         Information guidelines would give a structure in which information flows in and formalized in order to send on via voice or digital communication.

·         Sullivan Committee website has a booklet for training to pass on information to Sullivan Weather Service.

·         It is recommended that E-Spotter be used to send information about winter weather reports.

 

MARQUETTE COUNTY ARES/RACES MEETING NOTES – OCTOBER 28, 2008 

7 PM – PUBLIC SAFETY MEETING ROOM – COURTHOUSE – MONTELLO, WI 

MEMBERS PRESENT:  Kevin Graham – KC9FWE, Randy Hansen – WI9D, Dave Conway – W1VOW, Sandy Eberlein – W9SKE and Gary Sorensen – W9ULK

GUESTS PRESENT:  Brian Smith – KG9OG and Wayne Stewart – KB9JJD 

Discussion items included:

ARES/RACES conference this past weekend – all fine 

SET – will work on reports due by January, 2009 to Skip Sharpe 

ZILCH – Holiday special zilch planned for 6:00 p.m., Saturday, November 8th at Rivers Bend – Wayne and Brian and their wives invited to join us as our guests. 

MESSAGE FORMS – ICS, ARRL – future training session 

POLO SHIRTS – sources discussed 

NET CONTROL – Randy volunteered for the Sunday evenings until the November meeting when a new volunteer will take over – other counties are doing this for a month at a time with the person volunteering responsible for finding a substitute, if needed 

PHONE TREE discussed 

WIN -300 ANEMONTERS/WEATHER MEASUREMENT DEVICE – Kevin provided training on the units 

TRAILER – possible grant available to assist in obtaining 

RADIOS – Wausau ham club has units available for $50 each – Wayne, Gary, Kevin, Randy, Dave and Brian expressed interest in buying one along with getting one for the group for either the office or portable station for Winlink backup and possible APRS weather reporting system.   The treasury will pay for the radios and individuals will need to reimburse the $50 to get the radio 

HEALTH DEPARTMENT COMMUNICATIONS GRANTS – possible purchase of 6 ICOM D-STAR HT’s, first priority is the communications equipment setup for a portable station or trailer 

TOPICS FOR FUTURE MEETINGS – Dave noted GO Bags – December and Resource Books (forms, procedure booklets, etc. – January 

WINLINK 2000 DEMO AND POWERPOINT – Brian presented Winlink 2000 usage demo, powerpoint outlining the purpose, capabilities, Q-Forms – thank you KG9OG