A new year is almost upon us and you can renew your membership anytime now for 2025. We’ve not changed our yearly dues for 2025. It is still $24 for the first (or primary) member in a household and $12 for each additional member.
This year you can pay by check, by credit card or through your bank using Zelle. For more information and details go to our membership renewal page.
It’s been a good year. We are recovering from the hit we took during the COVID disruption where we were unable to hold our hamfest and we expect to surpass where we were before 2020 which will give us the opportunity to provide more services.
During 2024 our paid membership rose to 83, a number higher than I’ve seen since I became treasurer 9 years ago.
We’ve added internet at the WMTV repeater site which has allowed us to connect through WIRES-X to Americas-Link and other nodes on the digital side of our Fusion repeater and check in to the D-Star Wisconsin net as well as connect to some of the other reflectors available on D-Star. We’ve added a new section under “Nets” on our web site where we are starting to catalog interesting nets that you can check into through these two repeaters.
We continue to improve the functionality of these repeaters. We found that now that they are used more sometimes there is cross talk between them and we are working on correcting this. It is a good problem to have. If they weren’t being used there would be no problem! We expect to add some new filtering between the repeaters soon so we can have them both on full power and working independently.
In addition to the regular Dane/Iowa County ARES/RACES Net Meeting every Wednesday at 8 PM on the “15” and the Monthly (I hope we can make it more frequent) MARA Net on the First Wednesday at 7:15 (also on the “15“) we’ve been able to be the primary repeater for the Badger Challenge for a couple years now. And since we have space where we host our website we’ve given space for the Dane/Iowa County ARES/RACES group to host there site on our server as well.
Your membership ( as well as your help and participation at our hamfest) enables us to support amateur radio in our area and to maintain and improve the support we provide for the future. Please also note that when we elect officers for 2025 at our January meeting you must be paid in full to participate in voting.
Renew or Join today. Details on how to do so can be found on our membership renewal page.
Jeff, KC9UNZ, Treasurer, MARA
