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ARES is a completely volunteer organization. It is administered and operates under the Amateur Radio Relay League,
Inc. (ARRL).
Click here for more information about communicating in an emergency.
ARES is administered at our local level in Berkeley County, WV by our ARES Emergency Coordinator (EC): Ed Dashiell, K8WXI.
At the state level ARES is administered by our WV Section Emergency Coordinator (SEC) Ken Harris, WA8LLM.
Click here to register with the Berkeley County's ARES group.
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ARRL Leadership in WV:
Section Manager: Ann Rinehart, KA8ZGY
Asst Section Mgrs: Darrell Ringer, K8WV
Nick
Siebold, KB8NDS
Section Emergency Coordinator: Ken Harris,
WA8LLM
Section Traffic Manager: Tom Jones, N8NMA
Affiliated Club Coordinator: Robert M Adams,
W8GU
Bulletin Manager: Hal Tate, N8FXH
Official Observer Coordinator: Don Lemley,
W8DL
Technical Coordinator: Don Lemley, W8DL
Public Information Coordinator: Joe E Richards,
WV8WVU
State Government Liaison: Bill Hunter, K8BS
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WV ARES(r) Bulletin
I will try to keep the latest WV ARES Bulletin posted here, so refer back to read the next one.
TO: ALL WEST VIRGINIA ARES\256 MEMBERS (OFFICIAL)
ALL ARES AND NON-ARES\256 AMATEURS ANYWHERE (INFORMATION)
FROM: KEN HARRIS, WA8LLM, WV SECTION EMERGENCY COORDINATOR
WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS INCORPORATED
WV
ARES\256 BULLETIN NR 10.08 DATE: February 21, 2010
SUBJECT: LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE.
Assisting with events
like the runs, walks, races, boating events,
disaster drills, and exercises has multiple purposes.
It affords us
the opportunity to handle tactical communications, use
tactical call signs, expose of Amateur Radio to the public, and
provides
a service to our communities that no one but Amateur Radios
operators can do.
Take advantage of these types of
activities and try to learn from
them. If you feel you may have made mistakes during any of these
events, then you have
already learned the most important lesson.
Recognizing where you have failed, or gone wrong, in an event, is our
best
learning experience. It may be a year before we can correct those
mistakes, but, we know what to correct.
By recognizing
mistakes that were make is only half of the job.
We've got to be sure not to make them again. These experiences makes
us
better communicators, and helps us better understand communications
under pressure.
Take advantage of any events
and learn to be a better communicator.
Ken Harris, WA8LLM, Wood County, WV
WV ARES\256 Section Emergency Coordinator
WV ARES\256 District 3 Emergency Coordinator
ARRL Media Relations Form Released for ARES PR
Allen Pitts, W1AGP, Media and PR Manager
of the ARRL Headquarters
staff, has released the following report form to be used by ARES
leaders for reporting ARES
activations to the media:
________
The _______ Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES(r)) has been
activated
to assist with primary/auxiliary emergency communications
for this event. The group is coordinated by _____(name of EC
or
acting EC).
_______________ ARES is working with the ______________
county/city/town Office of Emergency Management
and the following
agency(ies): ___________
The group is providing communications links between: _________
Amateur
Radio operators are stationed at the following locations to
provide communications assistance:
___ (#) of Amateur Radio
operators are at the sites
___(#) of additional Amateur Radio operators are on standby for
additional communications
needs.
Insert boilerplate paragraph about the local ARES group here:
For more information contact:
________________________
(name of acting PIO)
________________________ (e-mail)
________________________ (phone and cell numbers)
_________
For
more information on the new form, contact Allen Pitts, W1AGP,
<w1agp@arrl.org> at ARRL Headquarters.
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