ARRL EC-001 Intro to EmComm Course

As mentioned on our recent training net, we are scheduling our local ARRL EC-001, Intro to EmComm Course. This course focuses primarily on the communications aspects of emergencies and is required for all Gregg County ARES participants, per the participants guide. The course will be taught over 8 weeks, with a contingency for a ninth week.

Assuming that most, if not all, currently registered ARES participants have not taken this course and will want to attend to meet the participation requirements, we are limiting this initial class offering to just registered Gregg County ARES participants. This will keep our class size to a manageable number for this initial offering.

Course Dates: Every Tuesday evening at 7PM, starting February 21st and ending April 10th.

Location: Longview Red Cross

Instructors: Gary Lewis – WG5L, Terry Johnson – KG5WO

Course Cost: $30 (to cover cost of course text and course incidentals) – the online version on the ARRL site costs $50 without the text.

Exam Date: April 21, 2012 at the regular LETARC VE session

FEMA online courses IS-100 and IS-700 are mandatory. Courses IS-200 and IS-800 are strongly recommended.

You will be required to bring copies of your FEMA certificates or transcript.

We strongly advise you to make every effort to attend all sessions. However, we realize that eight weeks is a big commitment and you may have to miss a week because of other commitments. If you miss a week of the course, you will be required to catch-up on the assigned readings and activities on your own.

We need to have a count of how many will be taking the course, so we know how many course texts to order.

Thanks for being a part of Gregg County ARES and all you do!