Cache County ARESRACES

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Cache County ARES/RACES

• Introduction to
• Cache County ARES/RACES

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Outline

• Introductions.
• What is ARES.
• What is RACES.
• What is the difference.
• Participation
• What Do Ham Radio Operators Do in Emergencies?
• How it works in Cache County
• City Stations/EOCs
• In Case of an Emergency

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ARES - The Amateur Radio Emergency Service

• The American Radio Relay League administers ARES
  (although you do not have to be a League member
  to participate). Any member can activate the ARES
  group. ARES provides emergency radio
  communications to a number of client groups,
  including local government, the American Red
  Cross, the Salvation Army, and others.

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RACES - The Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service

• The Radio Amateur Civil Emergency
• Service is a group of operators who have
• gone a step further to complete some
• required training, and who have officially
• registered with the local Emergency
• Management Division including
• fingerprinting and background investigations. The
• purpose of this group is to provide backup or
• supplemental communications support during civil
• emergencies as directed by the EMD. The group is
• governed by the RACES Officer who is appointed by
  and
• reports to the Emergency Management Director

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What is the difference between ARES and RACES

• ARES and the RACES both have very similar goals
  to protect life and property during an emergency.
  
• The ARES is the American Radio Relay League
  (ARRL) public service arm for providing support
  primarily to non-government agencies during an
  emergency/disaster. A primary user of the ARES is
  the American Red Cross (ARC).
• RACES is primarily focused to support government
  emergency management and services agencies during
  times of an emergency and/or disaster.

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Participation

• Participation in ARES and RACES is voluntary and
  you may quit at any time. You must be
  pre-enrolled in RACES in order to participate in
  RACES activities. While it makes sense to join
  ARES before you are needed, there is nothing to
  prevent you from offering your services at any
  time to aid in an ARES emergency response. Joint
  membership in both ARES and RACES is encouraged.

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Utah ARES Management Structure
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What Do Ham Radio Operators Do in Emergencies?

• Depending on the nature of the emergency, hams
  volunteer to perform a number of functions
• They "shadow" government and agency officials.
  Shadows ride "shotgun" in officials' vehicles,
  follow them on foot and keep them in touch,
  typically via VHF/UHF repeater systems.
• They set up and operate base stations at
  shelters, command posts, emergency operations
  centers, agency headquarters, hospitals, and the
  like, providing communications among the various
  agencies and their officials out in the field
  (who are being shadowed by a ham).

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What Do Ham Radio Operators Do in Emergencies?

• They operate in local, regional, and national
  traffic nets which move information in the form
  of "radiograms" into and out of disaster areas.
• Besides voice communications, they use digital
  communications to move data about victims,
  supplies, etc. accurately by radio use Amateur
  TV to provide live video imagery to aid in damage
  assessment and recovery and save the world from
  alien invaders with the Morse Code (just
  kidding).

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What Do Ham Radio Operators Do in Emergencies?

• They remain flexible and adapt to changing
  circumstances as needed, always carrying a large
  "bag of tricks" (jump bag).
• Keep lots of tools in you Tool Belt
• Echo Link
• IRLP
• APRS
• Winlink
• HF
• PSK-32

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Ham Radio Following Katrina Hurricane

• Amateur Radio operators provided communications
  for First Responders, Disaster Relief agencies,
  and countless individuals in connection with the
  Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
• As has been proven consistently and repeatedly in
  the past, when communications systems fail due to
  a wide-area or localized natural disaster,
  Amateur Radio works, right away, all the time.
• The principal reason why Amateur Radio works when
  other communications systems fail during natural
  disasters is that Amateur Radio is not
  infrastructure-dependent, and is decentralized.

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How it works in Cache County

• In Cache County, the ARES and RACES are organized
  as essentially one group of people. There are
  technical and legal differences between the two
  services, but, by and large, it is the same group
  of Amateurs.

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How it works in Cache County

• ARES is the training ground for RACES.
• ARES supports public service events like LOTOJA,
  Top of Utah Marathon, Cache Classic, Bear 100,
  etc.
• These events are excellent activities to learn
  how to communicate under less that desirable
  conditions.

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City Stations/EOCs

• About 8 years ago Lt. Gorge Becker was able to
  help all the cities in Cache County to get FEMA
  grants to purchase Amateur Radio Equipment and
  computers for use in Emergency Communications
• Lt. Becker and Tyler Griffiths N7UWX made
  presentations to all the city councils in Cache
  County.

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City Stations/EOCs

• After Lt. Becker retired, Capt. Bob DeGaser kept
  this going and all the cities in Cache County
  purchased Amateur Radio Equipment.
• The purchase usually consisted of a radio,
  antenna, power supply, TNC and computer.
• A few cities did not use the grant but purchased
  Amateur radio Equipment on there own.

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EOC Locations
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EOC Locations
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EOC Locations
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EOC Locations

• Lewiston Fire Station
• Richmond Fire Station
• Trenton Fire Station
• Clarkston Fire Station
• Newton Fire Station
• Smithfield - Fire Station
• Hyde Park City Offices

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EOC Locations

• North Logan Fire Station
• Logan Regional Hospital (Specialty Hospital?)
• USU Police dept.
• Red Cross
• Logan City Maintenance Sheds
• Logan Fire Station (New Station?)
• Cache County Sheriff Office County EOC
• Incident Command Trailer
• BRHD

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EOC Locations

• River Heights City Offices
• Providence City Offices
• Millville City Offices
• Nibley City Offices
• Mendon Fire Station
• Wellsville Fire Station
• Hyrum Fire Station
• Paradise Fire Station

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How Do I Join ARES/RACES

• If you are a licensed Amateur Radio operator,
  live or work in Cache County, and are interested
  in becoming an ARES/RACES volunteer, please
  contact
• Tyler Griffiths, N7UWX
• n7uwx_at_comcast.net
• ARES Emergency Coordinator, Cache County
• http//home.comcast.net/noutares
• noutares_at_yahoogroups.com

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Questions?