ARES and CCARES

What is ARES?

The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) is a nationwide field organization sponsored by the ARRL and composed of licensed amateur radio operators who are willing to offer their time and equipment to provide communications support for local governments and non-profit disaster relief organizations during disasters and emergencies.

For more information about ARES as a national organization, go to: http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/pscm/sec1-ch1.html

 

What is CCARES?

Clinton County Amateur Radio Emergency  service (CCARES) is a county-wide organization of volunteer amateur radio operators dedicated to training and preparedness to provide communications support for local governments and non-profit disaster relief organizations within Clinton County in the event of a disaster or other emergency when normal communication systems become disrupted or inadequate.

It is at the county level where most of the emergency preparedness planning, organizing, and training is accomplished.  This is the level at which most emergencies occur and the level at which ARES leaders have direct contact with ARES members, with amateur radio clubs and groups, and with officials of the served agencies.

CCARES is responsible for planning and coordinating amateur radio emergency preparedness and operations in Clinton County.  CCARES is presently comprised of several licensed amateurs who reside and/or work within Clinton County, and who have voluntarily registered their equipment and skills, and have expressed a strong desire to organize, train and be prepared to provide auxiliary communications support for public safety agencies and relief organizations when disaster strikes or whenever called upon.

The on-going objective of CCARES is to maintain a sufficient degree of preparedness of local amateur radio personnel and resources to deliver reliable and effective communications support when needed.

 

Our Mission

A primary responsibility of the Amateur Radio Service, as established by Part 97 of the Federal Communications Commission’s regulations, is the performance of public service communications for the general public, particularly in times of emergency when normal communications are not available. To that end, the Clinton County Indiana Amateur Radio Emergency Service members, under the oversight of the American Radio Relay League, will equip themselves and train to provide communications as a direct service to the general public through government and relief agencies of Clinton County, the State of Indiana, and the federal government, when requested by those agencies.