The Lansing Area/Ingham County Amateur Radio Public Service Corps is a volunteer emergency communications group. The group is organized under the ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), and the FEMA-administered Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES). R.A.C.E.S. groups are chartered by local governments; the Lansing Area group is sponsored by, and has formal working relations with, the City of Lansing Emergency Management Division, and the Ingham County Sheriff's Department.

To build a coordinated resource of trained communicators, infrastructure and capabilities to assist our community by providing emergency and supplemental communications.

The Lansing / Ingham ARPSC will establish a voluntary organization of competent communicators with enhanced capabilities and a resilient infrastructure to support the community. This will be accomplished through, planning, recruitment, training and professionalism.

Due to some unforseen circumstances, we will not be able to provide a lunch this year as we have in previous years. We will have a short break between presentations, and should be finished with our Skywarn Training by 1:30 pm at the latest this year.

Our guest speaker this year is Meteorologist Jim Geyer from WLNS TV 6 in Lansing. Jim has over 30 years experience as a meteorologist and has a great program lined up for everyone in attendance. Jim also recently got his ham radio license. His callsign is KD8CHU.

As always, we would like to thank Lansing Community College for the use of their facility for our training!

Meteorologist Rob Dale will be providing training on the GRLevel3 Weather Radar software package to Lansing ARPSC members. The training session is on March 22nd, 2010 from 7pm until 9pm at the Lansing EOC in Fire Station 8. All Lansing ARPSC members are welcome, especially those wishing to run Skywarn Nets.

The pre-registration for the 2010 Ingham County Skywarn training is now open. Please go to http://www.lansingarpsc.com/training.html and follow the instructions.

The 2010 Ingham County Skywarn training is on Saturday March 20, 2010 at 10am.

Basic CERT courses are being offered in Lansing.

January 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20 from 6:00-9:00pm and January 23, 9:00am-noon.

Delta Fire Station #1
7614 W. Saginaw Highway, Lansing
(On Canal across from Horrocks)