The Madison – Chicago 200 Mile Relay (MC200) is a really
unique, team running relay race. This requires a really
special communications team to cover this amount of real
estate. This event will use the same assets as a two
day, two state emergency communications operation.
This unique 200 mile, team adventure running relay race
begins at 7 AM on Friday, June 12th in
Madison, Wisconsin, continues for approximately 30 hours
and finishes mid-day Saturday, June 13th in
Chicago, Illinois.
This will be the fifth year that this major, national
event is being held in the Midwest. Monies raised by
this event help support the Special Olympics of
Wisconsin and Illinois.
The MC200 is being actively support by each individual
county ARES/RACES group the event passes. This includes:
Dane, Jefferson, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Racine, and
Kenosha Counties in Wisconsin; and Lake and Cook
Counties in Illinois (with tactical help from Will and
Kendal Counties in the past).
Lake County Illinois Emergency Management Agency (EMA),
the Lake County Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services
(RACES) and Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES)
group will again host the MC200 Comm Center for this
entire event due in part to their geographic location,
their voice and digital communication capabilities, and
the many years of similar event experience by this
group.
This is a
wonderful opportunity for all licensed radio operators
as communicators for this exercise regardless of your
experience. We will need many, many volunteers for help
with the preparation as well as the actual event in
June.
The positions which need your help include;
1.) Radio Operators at each of the “Transfer Areas”
(TA’s) & van transfer areas (VTA’s);
2.) Digital Radio Operators (Winlink2000) at the
VTA’s to update the event staff on team status;
3.) Non-hams (spouse/young adults) to coordinate the
arriving/departing runners and the team vehicle traffic
at each TA & VTA;
4.) Radio Operators in the “Madison Net Control” for
voice and digital traffic;
5.) Radio Operators in our “Waukesha Net Control”
for voice and digital traffic;
5.) Radio Operators in our “Racine Net Control” for
voice and digital traffic;
7.) Radio Operators in the MC200 Comm Center to
conduct “section net control” voice traffic;
8.) Digital Radio Operators (Winlink2000) in the
MC200 Comm Center to update the event staff on team
status;
9.) Radio Operators to staff the Comm Center for
voice traffic from the start at 6 AM Friday morning,
June 12th, to the finish of event at 6 PM, on Saturday,
June 13th;
10.) Volunteers (Hams or Non-Hams) to work the phones
for the Served Agency Liaison (S.A.L.) Desk contacting
law enforcement agencies throughout the entire course;
11.) There are many pre-event activities which need
your help.
This is another wonderful opportunity for all of our
members and families to experience the satisfaction of
volunteering for a very worthwhile event, plus helping
raise funds for the Special Olympics.
Please show your support by signing up to help that day,
and by giving us some basic information on the following
link:
MC200 sign-up
The MC200 Comm Team has a Yahoo Group used to access
files and assignment information. It is found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MC200CommTeam/
You may subscribe to this group at:
MC200CommTeam-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Any specific questions regarding this event will be
promptly answered by contacting us at:
For additional event information; Click here for the
MC200 home page for the running team participants or
here for the
MC200 Communication Brochure.
Sign Up to participate
here.
