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Another Successful Appearance at Tom Skillings Fermilab Severe Weather Seminar

2013 Des Plaines River Canoe Marathon
May 19th, 2013

THANKS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED.

2013 Lake Zurich Iron Girl Triathlon
Sunday, June 16th , 2013

Our organization has been asked to provide safety support for the 2013 Lake Zurich Iron Girl Triathlon. This event is similar to the Lake Zurich Area Triathlon that we support every year. The race starts at 07:00 AM and the Swim, Bike, and Run events are time limited so participation should end by noon.

For detailed event information, look here.

If you can help, please sign up here.

2013 Field Day
June 22nd & June 23rd, 2013

Are you Ready for FIELD DAY ? Preparations are being made for Lake County RACES/ARES participation in the 2013 ARRL Field Day Exercise, on June 22nd and 23rd. Operators are needed for SSB, CW and Digital Modes, also VHF. General help is needed to set up Shelters, Antennas and radios.

LCRA Field day will be held on the Lake County EOC grounds, as in previous years. Always a fun event, hope to see you there.

If you can help, sign up here.

Buy a Weather Radio

According to our EC Don K9DRW, if you don't have a weather radio, you REALLY should buy one.

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Reprinted from November 2008 Public Safety Communications with permission of APCO International. For membership and subscription information, visit http://www.apcointl.org.

LAKE COUNTY RACES/ARES® WAYBACK Machine

Here's a "Time Machine" for you to try. It is an archive of old web pages that is fully searchable (by URL). This link takes you to the original RACES.ORG web pages allowing you to view monthly activities and our original newsletters. It is a nostalgic walk through memory lane.

Go to: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://races.org

How about this: http://web.archive.org/web/19980508003742/races.org/newsaug.htm and read the August 1998 newsletter?

Consider another use. Use it to search out old user manuals, documentation, or spec sheets. Just go to: http://web.archive.org/web/ and add the URL of the site you are looking for. How cool is that!!

Go Kits

Anyone serious about Emergency Support should have a go-kit, or maybe more than one. It may be something you keep in the car or something mostly packed and ready to go at home. Even if you don't have one, you should think about what you might need to have in case of an emergency.

This is a presentation that Dan O’Connor, KE7HLR made at EMCOMMWEST in 2008. It's a rather large PDF file (about 3Meg). If you don't have a high speed connection, I suggest downloading it, and reading it off line. It's great 'food for thought' and well worth the read. I found myself mentally comparing Dan's ideas to what I have assembled and thinking about what I might want to add.

PERSONAL GO-KIT FOR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

General Meeting
Monday - June 3rd
7:00 PM

VE Testing
Monday - june 10th
7:00 PM

Board Meeting
Monday - May 20th
7:00 PM

Duty Officers
May 20h - May 26th

1st - KC9SJP
2nd - KC9GHZ
  3rd - K9DRH

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