Denver Radio Club - WØTX
The DRC provides Emergency Communications services for the:
Denver Offices of the Salvation Army,
Colorado ARES District 13,
Lakewood Colorado Police Dept.,
and the West Metro Fire District.
The EmComm services provided by the DRC include
trained volunteer emergency communications radio operators,
and the Club's VHF/UHF repeaters.
Oscar Hall, KØSSE, is the
Emergency Communications Coordinator
for the Denver Radio Club.
The National Incident Management System
(NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS) are two important
organizational and management structures now commonly used
throughout the U.S.A. during both national and local emergencies.
Oscar urges all amateur radio operators to become fully trained,
with competent knowledge, on how these structures are implemented
-- and how amateur radio fits into them.
All amateur radio operators involved with EmComm should
become FEMA certified in the following training courses:
"IS-100 Introduction to Incident Command
System, I-100"
and
"IS-700 National Incident Management System (NIMS), An
Introduction"
In the near future, amateur radio operators will be
required to hold training verification certifications, in order
to provide EmComm services.
Information regarding these free, on-line, FEMA training courses
is available at the following websites:
emilms.fema.gov
and
www.training.fema.gov/EMIweb/IS/crslist.asp
Information about the ARRL's Amateur Radio Emergency
Communications training courses (Levels 1-3, AREC) is available
at:
www.arrl.org/cce/
Many more web-links regarding EmComm, and emergency
preparedness topics, are available in the following Adobe PDF
document (80 Kbytes, 4 pages):
EmComm URLs
If you have questions, or need more information about
EmComm,
you may contact Oscar Hall directly at:
Please put "EmComm Request" in the e-mail subject
line.
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