Your local leadership as an EC brings ARES® to the many amateur radio operators in Illinois and local served agencies - your role as EC is essential. Without your leadership and responsiveness as an EC, there is no local ARES. Without registered ARES® members who you, your assistant EC, OES and your ARES staff, help recruit and maintain, there is no local ARES®. And without local ARES, there can be no Emergency Coordinator appointment. It is the local EC that must maintain the register of those local amateur radio operators formally registered in ARES® that is an essential requirement to your EC appointment and your responsibility to the ARRL and the Illinois Section leadership.

It is the local EC who brings the ARRL and its hard earned corporate knowledge gained over decades of emergency response to your local ARES®. As an EC, it is your understanding and application of this special knowledge from the furnished and available ARRL publications and material that is key to your success as an Emergency Coordinator, and to the ARES® team that you recruit and lead.

It is our purpose in ARES® to become and remain a viable organization furnishing emergency communications via amateur radio to our ARRL served agencies in the State of Illinois.

As an EC, you shall observe the ARRL EC Guidelines FSD-46 for an Emergency Coordinator. Your continuing appointment as a local EC in the Illinois Section of the ARRL is contingent on that premise. To be continued as an EC, you must observe those ARRL EC Guidelines, and the following expectations for a local EC:

• Recruits ARES® Responders continuous using the ARES Registration ARRL form FSD-98, and it is a responsibility of a local EC to maintain these formal ARES Registration forms for the Illinois Section of the ARRL.
• Establishes and participates in ARES® nets, and reports on all regular ARES radio nets, and ensures local ARES® Net listings are submitted to the ARRL Net Directory.
• Regularly participates in local amateur radio emergency planning and preparation activities, and with a local Emergency Communications Planning Committee, constructs a local emergency communications plan for, and with, served agencies. The Illinois Section Emergency Communications Plan is available to model your local plan. 
• Conducts periodic ARES® meetings and drills to maintain an effective and responsive ARES® team.
• Encourages public service events (PSE) to exercise amateur radio communications skills and equipment,
• Recruits and maintains regular contact with local served agencies, and responds to their emergency communications needs for amateur radio, our primary ARES® goal.
• Sends regular reports to the ARRL, the Section and District EC, and keeps ARES record files of those reports and logs. Answers extraordinary calls for information as needed by the ARRL.

Your EC information must be maintained and reports furnished promptly to the ARRL and the Illinois Section, and this local record keeping is also essential to the Section.

Standards are used by the supervising District EC and Section EC in evaluating a local EC, and those standards are your EC Guidelines:

1. Maintains ARES® Registrations on the FSD-98 form, and all are current, with none in the active ARES® file over 3 years old.
2. Maintains the local Emergency Communication Plan, with assistance from any local ECP committee, local agencies and ARES® staff, and files a copy with the Section EC.
3. Regularly conducts or participates in ARES® Nets, and makes information available to net members on ARES®, and recruits new ARES® members from these radio nets.
4. Regularly conducts or participates in ARES® meetings for training, drill planning and critiques.
5. Maintain ARES® local Emergency Reference Information FSD-255, ARES® team roster list and supplemental files and logs, and provide updates to the Section and District EC.
   
6. Reports regularly to ARRL and IL Section Leadership, and uses the following forms available from the ARRL web pages :

7. a.  Monthly EC/DEC Report, using ARRL form FSD-212, by the 2nd day of the month following, to the District EC and Section EC and (DEC/SEC).
   

   b.  Appointment Monthly Report, using ARRL form FSD-210, by the 2nd day of the month following, to the Section Manager and Section Traffic Manager.
   

   c.  Emergency Reference Information, using ARRL form FSD-255, to DEC/SEC when local changes are made, for inclusion in the Section Emergency Communications Plan.
   

   d.  EC Annual Report, Form C, by January 31st, sent to the ARRL and Section EC/DEC.
   

   e. EC SET Report, Form A, by January 31st, sent to the ARRL and Section EC/DEC.
   

   f.  Public Service Activity Report FSD-157 used for local public service activities - sent to the ARRL and DEC/SEC/SM.
   
   g.  Incident Reports and Situation Reports on ARES® Emergency Operations and drills sent promptly to DEC/SEC/SM by any means available, including Amateur Radio Disaster Welfare Message FSD-244 or email.
   

EC List - For a web page list of ARRL Illinois District and local Emergency Coordinators.

OES List - For a web page list of ARRL Illinois Section Official Emergency Stations.

Illinois Section ARES® HF Net - Attend the 75M HF net on 3905 KHz LSB  (7230 KHz alternate) on the first and third Sunday of every month at 4:30 PM, and give a brief report. Check in directly, or via relay throughout the year to help regularly test propagation and your HF station.
(ARES-IL HF Net 3.905 (ALT 7.230) MHz LSB 1630L 1/3 Sun).

2007 Net Roster - Download and save the 2007 copy of the Illinois Section ARES HF Net roster and attendance in MSWorks Spreadsheet format, print and mark stations heard every week with signal reports.

ARES-IL QST -  subscribe to the ARES-IL Google group and receive regular bulletin email sent by the SEC/IL & DEC/IL as QST postings on ARES-IL and EmComm topics.

	Subscribe to ARES-IL
	Email:
	Browse Archives at groups.google.com

ARRL Net Directory - List your own local ARES public emergency traffic nets there and update when needed!

EC Training and Certification Exam - download this text file and use in your own self training as an EC.

ARES Field Resources Manual - link to the ARRLand use as a quick trainer and field resource guide for the EC.

Other ARRL Resources - at the ARRL web pages now!

Your active participation as an Emergency Coordinator is necessary for the Amateur Radio Emergency Service to exist and serve in your local area. Always remember that you represent the Illinois Section in your ARRL Field Service Appointment in your local jurisdiction.