ARES
is the ARRL's national organization of
first responders. During a local,
state, or national emergency, licensed Amateur Radio Operators who are ARES members volunteer their
services when normal communications services are over-loaded or disrupted.
Under the long-standing
ARRL/Red Cross Memorandum of Understanding,
ARES operators provide communications services at emergency shelters, distribution points, hospitals, and
Emergency Operations Centers within and outside of the areas involved in the emergency.
We would like to invite all ARES members as well as other Amateur Radio Operators to join the
Vermont Emergency Phone Net on Sunday morning at 0800 local on 3.976 MHz. The net has been
running for over 30 years and we can make it anything that we need it to be.
More
ARES information is available at the ARRL website.
ARES operations are
encouraged
by the ARRL while RACES operations in Vermont are
invoked
by Vermont Emergency Management.
