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EVENTS - Bangs Lake (Wauconda) Triathlon
August 8th, 2010

Join us at the Bangs Lake Multisport Festival Triathlon. Communicators are needed to man safety checkpoints along the bike and run courses.

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EVENTS - North Shore Century
Sunday, September 12, 2010

The North Shore Radio Club is seeking Amateur Radio Operators to assist with the North Shore Century Bicycle Event. Starting at Evanston High School, this charity event runs 4 bike routes up and down the north shore and attracts up to 2000 participants.

More info here

Amateur Ballooning Amateur Ballooning Ballooning

Les, KC9HHB has some interesting ideas about flying Amateur Radio in Helium Balloons.

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IEMA Forms Partnership with Amateur Radio Operators to Enhance Emergency Communications

Additional communications layer will ensure information flow between state, local responders during disasters

Read the Press Release here

Support HR2160

The Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Enhancement Act of 2009 -- the ARRL is asking its membership to contact their members of the US House of Representatives with a request to become co-sponsors of this significant piece of legislation.

This legislation is significant to ALL Radio Amateurs, not just ARRL members.

Read More here

Buy a Weather Radio

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

Read the article

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

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 - Sept 13th
7:00 PM

VE Testing
Monday - Aug 9th
7:00 PM

Board Meeting
Monday - Aug 16th
7:00 PM

Duty Officers
Jul 26th - Aug 1st

1st - KC9JZE 2nd - KC9GZB
3rd - KC9GHZ

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