Lake County RACES


LATEST NEWS

PRAIRIE VOICE SET
JULY  31 / Aug 1st

Lake County RACES / ARES will be participating in a statewide Simulated Emergency Test called Prairie Voice on Friday July 31st and Saturday August 1st
 
We will operate from the Auxcomm Center at the ROC both days.
On Friday, the exercise will run from 1130 – 1500 and on Saturday from 0830 – 1200.
 
We are looking for operators to participate as operators or observers both days. A draft of the IAP is available for review here.
 
We will be operating using the following modes: HF Voice, HF CW, HF SHARES Voice, VHF Simplex, GMRS, DMR, Winlink, and a VHF local 147.18 net. It is likely we will be net control for the HF SHARES voice callup.
 

Click HERE to signup for one or both days, and indicate if you would like to operate any of the above modes, or just observe

 

All meetings and VE sessions are now held at the
Lake County Regional Operations and Communications Facility (ROC)

656 W Winchester Rd, Libertyville IL 60048

REGULAR ACTIVITIES

    • Monthly License Testing by our VE team
      The next session is on Aug 10, 2026
      Read more
    • Digital and Voice check-in NET every THURSDAY night at 8pm
      on the VHF Repeater       147.180 (+600 kHz) PL 3A (127.3)
      Signup here to be the next NCO! 

FROM ARRL

Help Pass The Legislation To Eliminate HOA Prohibitions on Amateur Radio Antennas!
Free The Antenna!

How can you help? 
By sending a letter to your Representative and Senators asking that they co-sponsor and support H.R. 1094 and S. 459.

How can you send these letters? It is easy.
Go to — https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/ — enter your call sign and click on “Send My Letters” and your letters will be delivered to the ARRL Washington legislative team for hand delivery to your Representative and Senators.

Does your individual letter matter? YES.
Your Representative and Senators need to know that the passage of this legislation is important to you. Your letter could be the difference in whether we are able to pass H.R. 1094 and S. 459.

Go to — https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/ — and help us by sending your letters to your Representative and Senators.

Read more


OTHER NEWS

📷 PICTURES 📸

Go take a look a the latest pictures, and some from the recent past.
6-6-2026 – We added some pictures here and here.

Please contact KB2PS if have any picture to share.

AUXCOMM

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.


CALENDAR


LINKS

USRACES.ORG https://www.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/