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Bid: $RACESBUL.316
Subject: SB316 Semantics 6/7 The ACS.
TO: ALL ES, CD, AND PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTORS VIA AMATEUR RADIO
INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CALIFORNIA
INFO: ALL AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS
FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
(W6SIG@WA6NWE.CA) Ph: 916-262-1600
2800 MEADOWVIEW RD., SACRAMENTO, CA 95832
LANDLINE BBS OPEN TO ALL 916-262-1657
RACESBUL.316 RELEASE DATE: March 7, 1994
Subject: MGT - Semantics, 6 of 7. The ACS.
AUXILIARY COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: The name adopted by those
jurisdictions who have chosen to use a wide spectrum of volunteer
telecommunication experts and other workers in government
service. This might include commercial radio technicians and
engineers, the RACES, Civil Air Patrol communicators and other
unpaid professionals. In some jurisdictions it includes public
safety and government communications as well as liaison with any
agency that has a bearing on emergency response.
An ACS has four elements in which interested volunteers serve
according to their skills and interests: administrative,
clerical, operations, and technical. In our State ACS we have
radio operators, heavy equipment operators, tower climbers,
computer disk message writers, messengers, photographers, pilots,
electricians, generator mechanics, computer programmers, plan
writers, instructors, EBS specialists and radio announcers,
personnel records management, clerical help, managers, shift
supervisors, installers as well as communications and electronics
technicians. Again, the RACES is but one part of the Auxiliary
Communications Service. The ACS is a broad spectrum service to
government supplementing all aspects of emergency response
communications, not just operating radios in the field or at an
EOC which has been considered by some to be the only role of the
RACES.
(This is part of a series originally titled "From My Lookout" in
seven parts, by Stanly E. Harter. It was renamed Semantics for
these bulletins. Continued)