1 / 6

Emergency Communications in the Public Domain

Discover a variety of organizations providing free emergency data and voice communications to local and state governments in New Jersey. Explore the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES), Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), Middletown NJ RACES group, Military Amateur Radio Service (MARS), and more.

sheilacase
Download Presentation

Emergency Communications in the Public Domain

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Emergency Communications in the Public Domain By Dr. Eamon P. Doherty Fairleigh Dickinson University doherty@fdu.edu

  2. Free Emergency Data and Voice Communications • There are a variety of organizations that provide limited service regarding emergency data and voice communications without cost to local and state governments in New Jersey.

  3. Emergency Service OrganizationsRACES – Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service http://www.races.net/ • “Recently the State of New Jersey, Office of Emergency Management, in conjunction with the New Jersey State Police conducted a Simulated Emergency Test, SET. • This exercise had amateur radio operators at their local Emergency Operation Centers (EOC), sending simulated emergency messages through the State of New Jersey. “ • http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3&id=32995

  4. Amateur Radio Emergency Service ARES • ARES and RACES work together with FEMA. ARES is part of the SKYWARN system too • http://www.qsl.net/n3xgr/ A Middletown NJ, RACES group http://www.n2pvp.com/mtoem/mtraces.htm

  5. Military Amateur Radio Servicehttp://www.ares.org/groups/mars/index.htm • The Mission of the MARS system is to: • 1. Provide auxiliary communications for military, federal and local disaster management officials during periods of emergency or while conducting drills in emergency procedures. • 2. Assist in effecting normal communications under emergency conditions. • http://navymars.org/

  6. Used at Katrina to provide emergency medical communication http://www.aeanet.org/aeacouncils/Unisys.asp

More Related