W.E.A.R.C.

               West Essex Amateur Radio Club, Essex Fells, NJ

                                   an ARRL Special Service Club             

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Essex County EmComm ARES/RACES

Traffic Handling Guidelines

 There are three key elements to participating in emergency communication preparedness:

• A willingness to devote a modest amount of time to acquire and maintain EmComm skills.

• Understanding what to do, and how to be effective in an emergency.

• Having the equipment to be an effective EmComm communicator.

Knowing what to do and how to conduct yourself on the air during an emergency is a skill set easy to obtain, and crucial to your success as an EmComm participant.  If you don't know what to do, or how to effect communications to the current EmComm standards, your laudable willingness to pitch in will wind up slowing down everyone around you as they try to bring you up to speed as quickly as possible.  Therefore, it is of paramount importance that those Hams interested in EmComm invest the time to learn what to do, and how to do it.  The below links will provide you with a better-than-basic knowledge of how EmComm works, and the starndards and practices by which it operates.  Knowledge is power, please invest the time to learn.

A good source of general information about EmComm

http://www.emergency-radio.org/

Formal Training Courses offered by the ARRL

http://www.arrl.org/cce/courses.html

ARRL Public Service Communications Manual

http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/pscm/

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Resources 

ARRL
FCC
R.A.C.E.S.
Essex SKYWARN
ARRL Hudson Div
QRZ
Eham.net
AMSAT
NJDX Assn
NNJ Red Cross ARC
Int'l Dx Assn (INDEXA)
NOAA
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