Reminder that today at 7pm, 5/21/2026, TCARES will have it’s monthly meeting at Franciscan Hospital on Creasy Lane, Cancer Center in their Community Room. We will have a representative of the NICU 5K walk / Run, we will continue with ICS forms, Winlink and Packet Radio, Field Day and a few other items.

At the end of 2025, TCARES announced that we were having everyone register for 2026. We only had applications for a few hams. Some were dropped because of move, and some where updated with new email, phones or address. We issued ID cards for those that did send or filled out the ARES paperwork. There are hams in Tippecanoe County that state that they are with TCARES, but we don’t have their application. Anything prior to this year, either were not given to us, or we never received paperwork. If you want to be part of TCARES, please fill out you’re new application.

TCARES just got confirmation that there will be a siren test today May 2nd 2026 at 11am local time. Hope you can join us in observing a siren and reporting it’s status. Thank you

TCARES has it’s December meeting tomorrow 12/18/2025 starting at 7pm. It will take place at Franciscan Hospital Cancer Center meeting room on the first floor. 1hr duration.

There are some questioning the attached calendar from the Hospital to TCARES calendar. Please do not follow what Franciscan Calendar states. Their information is just to get the room ready. Our meeting is from 7 till 8pm. Hope to see many ARES hams tomorrow.

NWS SKYWARN Spotter Training calendar will be updated as they have sessions available with the dates and locations for 2023 / 2024 training across the state of Indiana. The calendar, dates and times may change. Link to NWS Indianapolis: https://www.weather.gov/ind/spotter.

Interested in sending Snowfall measurements?

Visit: https://www.weather.gov/crh/stormreports?sid=ind

Here you can find the criteria for reporting different weather events and links to report them.

Snow Info

• How much snow fell (to nearest tenth of an inch if possible), e.g. 3.5″.
• What period of time did the snow fall? (e.g. 1 hour 15 minutes.)
• Was the snowfall measurement estimated or measured?

Fellow TCARES members and Ham radio operators.

During (U.S.A.) three day weekend, (Memorial Day, Labor Day, and a few others that fall on a Monday) TCARES will not hold it’s usual ON Air Monday night net. Please look at our calendar.

You can now subscribe to TCARES Announcements from the about page. At the bottom of the page there is a box to put your email address in. You then need to open your email and verify that you want to receive announcements by Email. Then anytime a new announcement is made here you will get an email letting you know!

Just added a new Google Form for siren assignments. To sign-up to verify the operation of a particular siren, go to the Siren Testing page. There you will find a form and a list of sirens. Enter your Email address, your name, and your callsign then pick from the list of sirens.

We now have our new website online! Thank you so much for visiting our site. In the near future we will be adding more content and information to this site, so please check back often!