RACES

Marion County IDHS RACES Meeting

Description: 

The next upcoming Marion County IDHS RACES Meeting will be held at the new County EOC, located in the southern end of the old Eastgate Mall.

Talk-in on the 146.760 repeater.

Marion County IDHS RACES Net

Date: 
Sun 06-02 7:00pm
Frequency: 
District 5 VHF
County: 
District 5
Description: 

This RACES Net is open to all licensed amatuer radio operators. It is for the testing of equipment and the disemenation of information.

District 5 VHF

Frequency: 
147.210 MHz
Mode: 
FM
Offset: 
Plus
County: 
District 5

Location

United States
39° 45' 58.9176" N, 86° 7' 46.1208" W

This is an open repeater installed by IDHS to support Emergency Communications in Marion and all surrounding counties. It is classified as a wide-area coverage repeater and has the callsign of KC9JYA and N1HQH, Ken Sullivan as Trustee.

It is currently transmitting with 25 watts and has a very good coverage.

The antenna is located at about 500' on the guyed tower at State & Washington Streets in the near downtown area of Indianapolis, IN.

District 5 Frequencies and EmComm Officials

Attached is a map of District 5 with frequencies used for amateur radio emcomm and the names/callsigns of ARES/RACES leadership in each county.

IDHS Statewide RACES Test

Date: 
Sat 07-20 9:00am
County: 
IN Statewide
Description: 

The Statewide R.A.C.E.S. Test is conducted each January and July on the third Saturday of the month at 0900 to approximately 1000 Eastern Time (0800 to 0900 Central).

N5FDL's Seven Tips: How to be a Volunteer that Leaders Love

Reprinted from the ARRL ARES® E-letter, May 25, 2011:

Having spent two months talking about how to build and kill EMCOMM groups, this month I'll touch on what it takes to be the volunteer every leader wants on his or her team. Here are seven tips:

IDHS RACES Monthly Net

Date: 
Sun 06-09 6:00pm
Frequency: 
IDHS RACES 80m SSB
County: 
IN Statewide
Description: 

The purpose of the net is to evaluate Indiana amateur radio disaster communications through the RACES program and to pass traffic and information.

All Indiana county EMA Directors or their designated representatives only are asked to check-in to this net.

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