Lake County RACES

Upcoming events

Aug 9, 2025 - Tour De Cure

Tour De Cure bicycle event in St Charles. 
This is not a RACES event, but several of us have participated in it. What makes this unique is that about 50% of the bike course is on a bike trail, not roads. We therefore have a team operating bicycle mobile. They are looking for a few more members for that. The ride is not intense, you periodically patrol a section of the trail. 
If you enjoy bicycling and have an HT or other bicycle setup for VHF/UHF, consider joining in.

Hello and welcome to the 2025 Tour de Cure Communications team.
 We are about 6 weeks out from the Tour, and plans are still coming together.
 We are still looking for Bike mobiles and a few more rest stop volunteers, so if you or anyone you know are interested, click below to sign up.
Click here to Sign up for the tour de cure

October 12, 2025 - Chicago Marathon

It is signup time already. 
Several hundred hams participate, and LC RACES has an aid station team each year.
We hope to do that again this year, and we encourage any new hams to join us. You will learn a lot about operating in radio events. No experience and no equipment needed to be on the team (an HT is helpful). 
The link below will take you to the signup sheet. Be sure to indicate “Lake County RACES” for the club affiliation.

Contact Ben/KD9BBB if you have any question.

Click here to signup for the MARATHON


REGULAR ACTIVITIES

    • General Membership Meeting at the EOC
      and on Google Meet on the first or second Monday of the month.
      See calendar below.
    • Monthly License Testing by our VE team
      Read more
    • Digital and Voice check-in NET every Monday night at 8pm on the VHF Repeater
      147.180 (+600 kHz) PL 3A (127.3)
      Signup here to be the next NCO!


OTHER NEWS

Installation of the backup repeater

📷 PICTURES 📸

We added a PHOTOS menu.
Go take a look a the latest pictures, and some from the recent past.
We will keep adding more.
Please contact KB2PS if have any picture to share.

Wearables as discussed by K9QF

The new RACES wearables are available. 
Please complete the form located here and make payment to the treasurer.
Your wearable will be placed in production when payment is received.
Checks should be made out to RACES.  Cash is also accepted.
To mail payment please use this address:
RACES Treasurer   
1303 N. Milwaukee Av.  Libertyville, IL 60048-1308 


CALENDAR


LINKS

USRACES.ORG

Illinois ARES site

https://arrl-il.org/ARES/ares.html

Amateur Radio Events in our area.

Amateur Radio Events (ARE)
https://www.amateurradioevents.com/