Denver Radio Club - WØTX

The DRC provides Emergency Communications services for the:
Denver Offices of the Salvation Army,
Colorado ARES Districts 13 & 23,
Lakewood Colorado Police Dept.,
West Metro Fire District,
and St Anthony's Hospital

The EmComm services provided by the DRC include
trained volunteer emergency communications radio operators,
and the Club's VHF/UHF repeaters.

Bob Zimprich, KBØBZZ, 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.

Bob 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.

Bob has provided the following web links for amateur radios operators to upgrade their EmComm knowledge and communications skills:

Emergency Communications – The Basics by WØIPL
Colorado ARES Communications Plan (COPLAN)
The EMCOMM.ORG website
What is Emergency Communications? (in Adobe PDF file format)
The ARRL Public Service Communications Manual (PSCM) webpage

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 Bob Zimprich directly at:  kb0bzz@arrl.net
 
Please put "EmComm Request" in the e-mail subject line.

Denver Radio Club

Since 1917

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