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- The ARRL Emergency Communications
- Training and Certification Course
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- One of the primary reasons for the existence of the Amateur Radio
- Service is its ability to serve the public, especially with respect to
- providing emergency communications. The American Radio Relay League
- recognizes this fact with its commitment in its Amateur Radio Emergency
- Service, support for the government's Radio Amateur Civil Emergency
- Service, and with a number of formal agreements in place with special
- disaster and emergency-oriented civil and government agencies.
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- This new ARRL emergency communications course is the next phase of
- evolution of the League's commitment to excellence in modern emergency
- communications support. It will serve to ensure that official Field
- Organization appointees engaged in ARES work and others will acquire,
- develop and refine the skills needed to perform at a high standard when
- asked to respond in an emergency communications situation.
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- All ARRL Emergency Coordinators, District ECs and Section ECs now have
- the opportunity, but are not required to, take this course and successfully
- pass the certification examination enclosed with this packet. The
- principle training materials suggested for successful completion of this
- course are:
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- Emergency Coordinator's Manual (FSD-(9): This excellent reference work
- produced by ARRL HQ in 1984 in conjunction with the ARRL Emergency
- Communications Advisory Committee, focuses on the key ARES member - The
- Emergency Coordinator. It is at the local level where the majority of
- emergencies occur. It's where emergency planning, organizing, preparing,
- and executing is overseen by the local Emergency Coordinator. This is the
- principle study guide to be used in preparing for the certification exam.
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- The FCC Rule Book: This important League work is the last word on FCC
- rules and interpretations; it contains a current Part 97 and a host of
- FCC-approved interpretations and explanations that will assist the
- emergency communicator in keeping his or her operations consistent with the
- regulations. The book adequately explains the RACES rules as well as the
- regulations concerning FCC declarations of communications emergencies. The
- certification examination contains questions on the FCC rules and
- regulations, therefore the trainee should have a good working knowledge of
- the material in The FCC Rule Book..
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- The ARRL Operating Manual, ARRL Field Organization and Public Service
- Communications Manual brochures also contain a wealth of information of
- interest to emergency communicators and are all suggested reading.
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- About the examination: The examination is "open book". That is, the
- examinee is encouraged to refer to the training materials while taking the
- exam. It contains questions of the fill-in-the-blank and short-answer
- type. Please type or print legibly!
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- Once you have completed the exam papers, send them to your Section
- Emergency Coordinator (or other designated examination administrator) for
- grading. If you pass, you will receive the appropriate EC certification
- sticker from your SEC.
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- During the course of your studies, if you develop any questions, please
- don't hesitate to contact your Section Emergency Coordinator or Section
- Manager for assistance. Good luck, and thanks again for expressing your
- interest in serving the public through Amateur Radio and the ARRL.
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- Luck Hurder, KY1T
- Deputy Manager, Field Services Department, ARRL
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- Course Study Outline:
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- The following is a general outline of subjects covered on the
- certification examination. The applicant is encouraged to refer to the
- training materials while concentrating on the topics listed below:
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- I. The ARRL Field Organization
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- A. Section Manager
- B. Section Emergency Coordinator
- C. District Emergency Coordinator
- D. Emergency Coordinator
- E. Assistant Emergency Coordinator
- F. Official Emergency Station
- G. Registered ARES members
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- II. Public Service: The Amateur Radio Emergency Service
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- A. Section Structure for ARES
- B. National Traffic System liaison
- C. Duties of the Emergency Coordinator
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- 1. General
- 2. Planning
- 3. Organizing
- 4. Coordinating
- 5. Communicating
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- D. Duties delegated to Assistant Emergency Coordinators
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- 1. Operations AEC
- 2. Administrative AEC
- 3. Liaison AEC
- 4. Logistics AEC
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- III. Organizing a Local ARES Unit
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- A. Recruitment
- B. Special Service Clubs
- C. Organizational and Planning Meetings
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- IV. A. Forms and supplies available from ARRL HQ.
- B. Simulated Emergency Test reporting
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- V. Training
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- A. Basic Communications Theory Training -- six elements
- B. ARRL Simulated Emergency Test
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- VI. Served agencies
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- A. American Red Cross
- B. APCO
- C. FEMA
- D. NCS
- E. Salvation Army
- F. NVOAD
- G. NWS
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- VII. RACES
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- A. ARES and RACES
- B. RACES and repeaters
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- VIII. Emergency Plans
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- A. Standard Operating Procedures
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- IX. Disaster Communications
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- X. Packet Radio in ARES
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- XI. Distress Calling
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- A. CW
- B. Phone
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- XII. Principles of Emergency Communications
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- XIII. Principles of Repeater Operation
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- XIV. National Traffic System
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- A. Traffic Handling
- B. Mode
- C. Principles of Operation
- D. NTS Operation in Emergencies
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- With this outline in hand, the examinee should refer to the course
- texts described on page 1. Throughout the examination, you will be asked
- to give a reference to every answer you supply. Please use short answers
- and type or print legibly. Good luck!
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- ARRL EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS TRAINING
- AND CERTIFICATION COURSE EXAMINATION
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- 1. What are the emergency communications bases and purposes of Amateur
- Radio as provided for by the Federal Communications Commission? (Give rule
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- 2. What are the key appointments of the emergency communications portion
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- 8. For what purposes do Assistant ECs serve?
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- 9. What are the four main categories of Assistant Emergency Coordinators?
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- 12. What are the six elements of any communication according to basic
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- 13. What is the ARRL Annual Simulated Emergency Test?
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- 15. What is the purpose of ARRL served-agency memoranda of
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- 18. RACES operators must be officially enrolled in:
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- 20 Should amateurs be encouraged to belong to both ARES and RACES?
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- 21. How can an existing ARES unit be registered as RACES?
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- 22. What is the name of the National Weather Service's tornado
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- 23. Give a brief description of the parts of the standard ARRL formal
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- 24. Give a brief description of the nature of the following types of
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- 26. What are some of the advantages of using packet radio in
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- 27. What are the two principle distress calls?
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- 28. Occasionally, an emergency situation will develop needs for a special
- circuit covering two points between which high precedence traffic is
- heavy. These special point-to-point operations are called:
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- 32. When using repeaters in emergencies, transmit with the:
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- ( ) highest possible power
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- 33. What are the three levels of ARES organization? Give a brief
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- 35. What is the effect of an FCC - declared emergency? Give the FCC
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- 36. Local ARES operation usually consists of _______________ operations.
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- 39. Briefly describe the following levels of the ARRL National Traffic
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- UPON COMPLETION OF THE EXAMINATION, PLEASE FORWARD THE TEST PAPERS TO YOUR
- SECTION EMERGENCY COORDINATOR FOR GRADING. YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED WITHIN
- THIRTY DAYS OF PASS/FAILURE.
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