Our Police and fire support ARES and emergency communications
to the highest degree. The fire depatments in both the city and
county promote emergency service's and let us use their meeting
rooms for training an meetings.
The county and city promote
their fireman to get amateur license, this in a county that is over
100 square mikes an goes from mountain tops to flood plans. The
ARES members in the city are allowed to drive the comminucations
vans, high water vehicles, man both police and fire radio's if needed
along with amateur radio's set up in county, city EOC's and all fire
station both manned an volinteer.
I am a very firm believe that ARES and RACES members alike should
handle message's to practice traffic handling. Right now in the National
Traffic system there is only general message welcoming new amateurs
to our hobby, birthday greetings or license renewals.
If you do not know how to handle message traffic, where to send it
or how to route it from a net then you become another disaster in
a disaster if it happens
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ARRL Pacific Area Digital Coordinator (NTSD)
Official National traffic Station Relay Station (ORS)
Pacific TCC Rep for Cycle 2
NCS for the Pacific Area Net Cycle 2
NCS for the Region 7 net Cycle 2
NTS Target Station
National Commincations System Station (NCS045)
I am the AEC of Centralia WA
ARRL VE
Past member of the ARRL Emergency Communications
Adviory Committee (ECAC) (now sunseted)
Retire Army MARS Member (32 years)
President CVARS Radio Club
Have completed ICS 100, 200, 700