Info on ARES, RACES and Skywarn
Wyoming ARES/RACES
Wyoming's HF Net for ARES/RACES
Scott Harris, W7WRO, Wyoming state RACES officer, offers his site for info

What's in your 'Go' kit?
From Lake County Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service, Inc.
  • For more information on what ARES is - check this page on the ARRL site.
    • SKYWARN
  • A Skywarn Spotter's Guide
  • An advanced Skywarn Guide to Convective Storm Structure

  • Wyoming and National Weather info at the Interactive Weather Information Network
    • IWIN is the Internet counterpart of EMWIN
  • Weather Info especially for Wyoming Skywarn and other volunteer weather watchers is at Wyoming Underground
    • Click the red 'warning' dot next to your area for details
  • Visit The Weather Underground for nation wide weather info
  • For information about Wyoming Skywarn, check out the South East Wyoming Skywarn site.

    • SKYWARN WORKSHOP
  • There have been a couple Skywarn Spotter training workshops in the past couple years. You can visit the NWS in Cheyenne for Info on others
  • Also includes info on EMWIN and how to acces it
    • The EMWIN home page

  • Laramie County DOES have an active Skywarn group.
    • You can hear their activities on the 146.775, 147.105 or 147.165 (Albin) Repeaters.
    See the Shy-Wy Repeater Page for repeater info
  • Click here for or a History of Skywarn.

    • STANDARD CONNECTORS
    It has been suggeted, in order to facilitate intercompatability, that equipment used for ARES/RACES purposes use a standardized set of power conectors.
    Sounds like a great idea, but information is often sketchy at best.

    Traditionally, the 'Molex' power connector has been the defacto standard
    This is also the ARRL ARES recomended 'standard' and has the advantage of being readily available

    There is a move to establish a more robust connector as the new standard. Molex type conectors are only rated for 25 to 30 connect/disconnect cycles The Anderson Powerpole, setup to the Orange County RACES standard is a much more robust connector

    There are several sources for these connectors, including most any hobby shop that has Radio Control models. I suggest using Metacrawler and search on Anderson Powerpole, to locate your surce
    One I've used is PowerWerx.com. They also have those OEM 'T' connectors found on many new mobile radios

    It's also suggested that any ARES/RACES operator have a collection of addapters that would allow intercompatability between not only these two 'standards', but their own radios as well