| Northeast District - Illinois
ARES®
The Illinois Amateur Radio Emergency
Service® (ARES®) is a service provided
by the Illinois Section of the American
Radio Relay League (ARRL), the national organization
for amateur radio. Will County is in the Northeast
District of the Illinois Section of the ARRL.
The Illinois Section Emergency Coordinator (SEC)
is Robert
"Pat" Ryan, KC6VVT. Northeast District
Emergency Coordinator (DEC) is Robert "Rob"
Sobkoviak, K9NYO.
The Illinois ARES® net is held on the 1st
and 3rd Sunday of each month at 1630 (Central
Time) on 3905 kHz. Emergency Coordinators for
each district and county check-in and deliver
a bi-monthly report, and traffic is passed in
the net.
The following are known emergency frequencies
in use in the Northeast District of Illinois along
with other nearby counties (see frequency
map, courtesy John
Nebl, N9MYC and the Schaumburg
ARC):
Note: County reports to the National Weather
Service office in Romeoville should be made on
the liaison frequency of 146.760 MHz
(146.160 MHz in w/ 107.2 Hz CTCSS tone), made
available during severe weather events by the
fine folks at the Chicago
FM Club.
| County |
|
Type of Traffic |
|
Repeater |
Tone |
| Boone |
|
Weather/emergency (county) |
|
147.375 |
100.0 |
| Cook |
|
SKYWARN (wide-area) |
|
146.670 (WAFAR) |
107.2 |
| Cook |
|
ARES (county) |
|
146.880 (SARA) |
107.2 |
| Cook |
|
Weather/emergency (wide-area) |
|
145.350 (CEEARS) |
107.2 |
| Cook |
|
Weather/emergency (local) |
|
146.805 (Tri-Town) |
107.2 |
| Cook |
|
Weather/emergency (local) |
|
147.090 (Maine Twnshp) |
107.2 |
| Cook |
|
Weather/emergency (local) |
|
145.230 (Schaumburg) |
107.2 |
| Cook |
|
Emergency (wide-area) |
|
146.760 (SATERN) |
107.2 |
| DeKalb |
|
SKYWARN/ARES® (county) |
|
146.730 (Malta) |
100.0 |
| DuPage |
|
Weather/emergency (local) |
|
145.390 (Wheaton) |
107.2 |
| DuPage |
|
Weather/emergency (local) |
|
443.050 (Naperville EMA) |
114.8 |
| Grundy |
|
SKYWARN/ARES® (county) |
|
147.270 (Morris) |
-- |
| Kane |
|
Weather/emergency (county) |
|
145.470 (KC OEM) |
103.5 |
| Kane |
|
SKYWARN/ARES® (county) |
|
146.790 (Elgin) |
107.2 |
| Kankakee |
|
Weather/emergency (county) |
|
146.940 |
-- |
| Kendall |
|
SKYWARN/ARES® (county) |
|
147.375 (Yorkville) |
103.5 |
| Lake |
|
SKYWARN/ARES® (county) |
|
147.180 (LC RACES) |
127.3 |
| LaSalle |
|
SKYWARN/ARES® (county) |
|
147.120 (Ottawa) |
103.5 |
| LaSalle |
|
SKYWARN/ARES® (local) |
|
145.290 |
103.5 |
| LaSalle |
|
SKYWARN/ARES® (local) |
|
146.895 |
103.5 |
| Lee |
|
SKYWARN/ARES® (county) |
|
146.970 |
82.5 |
| Livingston |
|
SKYWARN/ARES® (county) |
|
147.390 (Pontiac) |
127.3 |
| McHenry |
|
SKYWARN/ARES® (county) |
|
146.835 (Woodstock) |
107.2 |
| McHenry |
|
Backup (county) |
|
145.410 (McHenry) |
-- |
| Ogle |
|
SKYWARN/ARES (county) |
|
147.045 |
|
| Will |
|
ARES (county) |
|
444.550 (WC EMA) |
114.8 |
| Will |
|
SKYWARN (county) |
|
147.330 (Bolingbrook) |
-- |
| Will |
|
Backup (county) |
|
146.820 (Joliet) |
107.2 |
| Winnebago |
|
Weather/emergency (county) |
|
147.195 |
114.8 |
The primary liaison frequency is the CFMC 146.760
wide-area 2m repeater system. A liaison frequency
used in the past that will continue to be available
is 145.350 (107.2 tone), the FISHFAR/CEEARS system
with wide-area coverage. Monitoring of this frequency
is at the discretion of the ham on-duty at the
NWS office.
This list was last updated on March 13, 2004
at 1635 UTC
Traffic type explanation:
1) SKYWARN is noted where there is confirmed
weather-spotting activity coordinating with the
National Weather Service. If existence of local
SKYWARN program is unknown but weather-spotting
is known to occur, then Weather is listed.
2) ARES® is noted where there is an ARES® organization in operation. If affiliation with
ARES is unknown but emergency communication is
known to occur then Emergency is listed.
3) (county) denotes a frequency used
for county nets, and (local) denotes
a frequency used for local nets in a particular
area shown by the (location) noted next
to the frequency.
See the Illinois Repeater Association (IRA) Repeater
Directory for more information. Please send
updated frequencies, corrections or additions
to k9nyo@arrl.net.
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