Amateur Radio Emergency Services
Illinois ARES®

Amateur Radio Emergency Service®

State of Illinois
American Radio Relay League


R. Patrick Ryan, KC6VVT

Illinois Section Emergency Coordinator
LINKS TO OTHER WEB PAGES

LINKS Page - Here are some useful links for web pages for use by our ARES® members and amateur radio operators interested in ARES® and EmComm groups. Remember to use your internet browser "Back"option to return. Save this page in your list of favorites, for many changes will be made here.

Our amateur radio operators assist ARRL served organizations in ARES®, and some links to those organizations follow:

National Organizations:

Illinois Agencies:

State of Illinois:

IEMA Region Map with IEMA Regional Coordinators:   IEMA Region
IEMA County and Accredited Municipal EMA's:    ESDA/EMA Directory
IEMA Exercise Calendar:  ILEXcal

U.S. Agencies and sponsored groups:
  • DHS Citizen Corps: Go here
  • USA Freedom Corps: Go here
  • FEMA Region V: FEMA V
  • FEMA Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program: CERT
  • National Ocean and Atmospheric Agency National Weather Service of the : NOAA
NOAA Weather Radio SAME codes for Illinois: NWR-IL
Illinois County Warning Area map and ARES-IL Districts: NWS IL CWA
NOAA Weather Radio sites IL map: NOAA Radio IL

NWS Weather Forecasting Offices serving Illinois and adjacent areas:

APRS links courtesy of FindU.com.For more information on the Citizen Weather Observer Program, see CWOP

EmComm Links:
There are many fine local organizations of ARES
®, RACES, Skywarn and other amateur radio operators providing emergency communications via amateur radio, or EmComm service, to many served agencies in our great state of Illinois. Some of those various Illinois ARES® web pages are listed below for your review, and you will be redirected to their web pages by clicking on the link:

Amateur Radio Emergency Communications pages of interest:


If you and your amateur radio public service group are registered in ARES®, and would like to be listed here, send an email to the Illinois ARES
® link below.
Updated 10/25/07


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