Home Page   LEADERSHIP Executive Senior County Special   INFORMATION News and Information Digital Communications News Newsletters Downloads Traffic Nets County Nets Apparel Maps Links 501c3 ARES®/RACES Net WEM Hamshack Plan '07 Senior Leadership Notes   TRAINING Links NIMS Incident Command   PROJECTS & IDEAS Emergency Operations Portable VHF Station Emergency Operations Portable HF Station ARES® Boom Box   SECURE PAGES Leadership Only Senior Leadership Only	Welcome to the Wisconsin ARES®/RACES Web site! We are pleased you stopped to visit!    Wisconsin ARES®/RACES is actually two organizations operating transparently as one with over 1350 ham radio operators who volunteer their expertise, time and resources to provide primary and supplemental communications to government agencies, private disaster response organizations and other nonprofit organizations.  Other ARES®/RACES organizations are present throughout the United States.  In Wisconsin, each county has an ARES®/RACES group, which regularly trains on the air and in formal training sessions.    Some examples of the services provided by ARES®/RACES include:  Severe weather spotting assistance for the National Weather Service. Supplemental communications support to Emergency Management, law enforcement, fire and emergency medical services during all types of emergencies and disasters. Primary and supplemental communications support during disasters and communications emergencies for private disaster response organizations. Primary communications for nonprofit organizations during events and activities such as marathons, parades and large outdoor events. If you an ARES®/RACES member, this is your site!  It is your information portal for all ARES®/RACES activities in Wisconsin.  Bookmark this site and visit it often. If you are a ham radio operator interested in public service, review this site and contact your county ARES® Emergency Coordinator, or Bill Niemuth, KB9ENO, at bniemuth@new.rr.com. If you are not involved in ham radio and are interested in communications and public service, we want to talk with you!   We are always looking for interested individuals who want to uniquely serve their communities.  All it takes to get an FCC issued ham radio license is the desire to learn. If you are in emergency management, state or federal government, law enforcement, fire service, emergency medical service, health service, or a private disaster support agency and are not engaged with your local ARES®/RACES group, please contact me.  I’ll put you in touch with your county or district emergency coordinator. Enjoy our site!  Learn from it, generate ideas to take back to your organizations and then share those ideas with us so we can share them with others. Remember, we provide communications when no one else can! Best regards, Bill Niemuth, KB9ENO (bniemuth@new.rr.com) ARRL/ARES® Section Emergency Coordinator, Wisconsin RACES Chief Radio Officer, Wisconsin	ARRL Web Page Wisconsin Emergency Communications, LTD   Wisconsin Emergency Management / WEM   FEMA     US OFFICIAL TIME UTC Central   NWS       Webmaster: Todd Dorschner, N9MY Click Here to Email   Our website is graciously hosted by: Tpo Internet Services, John Ensley, N9RJZ