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- TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES VIA AMATEUR RADIO
- INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
- ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
- FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
- 2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)262-1600
- Landline BBS open to all: (916) 262-1657
- RACESBUL.276 DATE: May 31, 1993
- SUBJECT: MGT - Radio Officer or RACES Radio Officer, which?
- One will see both titles in our discussions on communications
- volunteers in government service. While it may be of little
- significance in your government, here is how we define them to
- those who may just be starting up a communications program.
- A RACES Radio Officer is basically as described in the FCC
- Rules and Regulations: that person who directs a local
- government's Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service program and is
- responsible to its civil defense director.
- We utilize the title of Radio Officer, without the word
- RACES, to mean one who coordinates the RACES and more. Such a
- Radio Officer is concerned with all of the two-way radio systems
- in a local government, whereas the scope of a RACES Radio Officer
- is confined to the RACES. Thus the Radio Officer works not only
- with Amateur Radio but one or more of the following: Civil Air
- Patrol, Local Government, Fire, Police, Special Emergency, EMS,
- MARS, Citizens Band, other FCC radio services and those of the
- Federal government.
- Some governments have only one or two RACES Radio Officers who,
- in turn, call upon ARES resources for support as needed. This is
- not necessarily a Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service, however.
- We urge that you encourage your RACES Radio Officer to become
- familiar with the capabilities and shortcomings of all your local
- government's telecommunications so that you may be better served
- by your volunteers. There is no time to train and explain when
- called out in an emergency.
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- "The deepest need is the need to be needed." --- R.L.S.
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- EOM
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