Stafford EmComm

Volunteer Radio Emergency Communications Team

ARES-RACES5.bmp (23586 bytes) serving Stafford County, Virginia WhenAllElseFailsLong.jpg (14686 bytes)

Stafford-Tri-Logo3.bmp (314046 bytes)

Welcome to the web home of the Stafford County Volunteer Radio Emergency Communications Team! Please step in and have a look around. We would be thrilled if you would like to join our dynamic and friendly team!

Our Mission

To provide the Stafford County, Virginia government and the citizens of Stafford County and its environs with free emergency radio communications. The Stafford County Emergency Communications Team (AKA Stafford EmComm Team) is a group of FCC licensed Amateur Radio operators who have volunteered their skills and radio equipment to assist Stafford County via radio communications during emergencies.

Team Profile

We are a group of over 50 Amateur "Ham" Radio operators who offer our personal equipment, vehicles, training, and communications expertise under the direction of the Stafford County Fire & Rescue Department (Emergency Manager) and the Sheriff's Office (911 Center Director).

We have responded to several local emergencies during the past decade, to include:

	Snow storm in February 2010
	Snow storm and blizzard from 18-20 December 2009; ESF-2 at County JOC
	Tornado at South Stafford's England Run on 8-9 May 2008, where 130 houses were damaged and 30 were destroyed. We provided health & welfare communications support to the Red Cross shelter.
	Support to the County EOC during the 3 days of area electrical outages caused by Tropical Storm Isabel in 2003.
	Support to the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 after the terrorist attack.
	Support to the 120-car pileup near I-95 Exit 143 Southbound during a heavy snowstorm in February 2001. We provided telephone patches via our repeater and health & welfare message support at the Red Cross Shelter.

Most of us are long time or life members of the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), the national association for Amateur Radio. Many of us are also professional federal emergency managers, IT professionals, and communications specialists in our day jobs.

Our team has served Stafford County for almost 2 decades.

To Join

To join the Stafford County EmComm Team, please email Bart, N3GQ for an application at N3GQ at cox.net. Applicants approved by Stafford County are issued a County ID.

Contact Information

Instead of writing or phoning us, why not join us at one of our weekly Saturday morning breakfasts at the Perkins Restaurant just off I-95 Exit 130, across from the Shell station at the first traffic light (westbound on Route 17)? The food is good as is the camaraderie!

Telephone

	Stafford County Fire & Rescue Department (540) 658-7200 County Emergency Manager: Vacant; temporarily filled by Fire Chief
	County Volunteer EmComm Team Chief, Curt Bartholomew, 540-373-4506 Stafford County Volunteer EmComm Operations Officer, Emmett Price Emergency Support Function 2 (ESF-2) Communications Unit (EOC), 540-658-5297
	Stafford County Sheriff's Office (540) 658-4450 County 911 Center Director: Director Carol Adams, (540) 658-4712


Fax: (540) 658-4419

Postal address: Stafford County EmComm Team
C/o Stafford County Fire & Rescue Dept.: 1225 Courthouse Road, P.O. Box 339, Stafford, VA 22555

Electronic mail: General Information: N3GQ at verizon.net
Webmaster: N3GQ at verizon.net

SARA Perkins.gif (84221 bytes)

Many EmComm Team members, many of whom are members of the various local ham radio clubs, meet at the Perkins Restaurant every Saturday (see text above for location).

Left to Right: WA3CVB, N4SJX, W4IM, N3GQ, N4WDC, AC4IU, KD4ZPF, KF4HR, KI4JVE, and N4IKN.

"In all disasters, our ability to communicate with our social network underlies everything else we may do to survive. My experience providing mental-health services at disaster sites and hospital emergency centers convinced me that I needed to get a ham radio license." --Wayne Rosenfeld, Norwhich, CT

[ Home ] [ EmComm News ] [ Ham Radio Exams ] [ EmComm Services ] [ Leadership ] [ Local Ham Clubs ][FrontPage HTML Markup Component][FrontPage HTML Markup Component][FrontPage Component]

Please send mail to the Stafford EmComm Team at SEmComm(at)qsl.net with questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright � 2009 & 2010 Stafford EmComm Team
Last modified: January 29, 2012