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Amateur Radio W4EZ "Whiskey Four Echo Zulu" Orange County NC ARES

...WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS!
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North Carolina ARES is organized into three geographic branches. Each branch is further divided into groups of counties called areas. Orange County is a part of NC ARES Area 10 in the Central Branch of the state. The other counties in Area 10 are:

• Alamance
• Davidson
• Durham
• Guilford
• Montgomery
• Randolph

We conduct regularly scheduled on-the-air training to sharpen our emergency communications skills and, in cooperation with the Orange County Radio Amateurs, we support a network of Amateur Radio repeater stations to provide emergency coverage all across the county. We have close working relationships with:

• Orange County CERT
• Orange County Office of Emergency Management
• Orange County Chapter of The American Red Cross
• University of North Carolina hospital system

If you're not an Amateur Radio operater at present but wish to learn more, here's the link to the website of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), which is the national organization for Amateur Radio in the USA. The ARRL's website contains much useful information to help you prepare for your license exam and find an upcoming test session located near you.  If you're an Orange County ham who would like to join us, here's the application to become a member of Orange County ARES.

Here are the NIMS courses that you should complete in order to obtain certification to help us provide emergency communications for Orange County in a responder or support position.  These free courses can be completed online using the links provided:

• ICS-100  "Introduction to Incident Command System" IS100
• ICS-200  "Incident Command System for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents" IS200
• ICS-700  "National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction" IS700

In addition, you should complete these free courses below to be certified as an EOC Operator.  (Note that ICS300 and 400 are classroom courses, and we will make the class schedules available to Orange County ARES members):

• ICS-300  "Intermediate Incident Command System for Expanding Incidents"
• ICS-400  "Advanced Incident Command System, Command and General Staff-Complex Incidents"
• ICS-800  "National Response Framework, An Introduction" IS800

North Carolina ARES Key Personnel:

• NC ARES Section Emergency Coordinator:
  
  • Bernie Nobles WA4MOK

• NC Central Branch Assistant Emergency Coordinator:
  
  • Tom Brown N4TAB

• NC ARES Area 10 District Emergency Coordinator:
  
  • John LeMay KB4WGA

• Orange County NC ARES Emergency Coordinator:
  
  • Stanley ("Skip") Fisher N6LUZ

• Orange County NC ARES Assistant Emergency Coordinators:
  
  • Dave Snyder W4SAR
    
  • Gerry Cassara KD4YJV
    
  • Steve Jackson KZ1X
    
  • Jim Jingozian KG4NEL
    
  • Raymond ("Woody") Woodward K3VSA

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Updated 09/09/2008, send corrections to k3vsa "at" arrl "dot" net