Hello Everybody. This mail is going out to a very diverse group of people, so please bear with me. As some of you know, and some of you don't, the ARRL, Amateur Radio Relay League, has received a grant from United Technology to begin putting people through it's Emergency Communications Course in Connecticut. The first groups of students started the course a week or so ago, with five Connecticut Hams acting as mentors for them. I'm quite proud to say that I am one of the mentors, and that nine or ten of the first group are taking the course with me. The course, for those who are not familiar with it, has a very simple objective - To provide a baseline level of knowledge and skill in Amateur Radio Emergency Communications for anyone wishing to assist their local emergency communications organizations. To get in on the UTC grant you had to be a licensed Ham, live in Connecticut, and be a member of the ARRL. If you haven't heard the news, last week the Federal Government got behind the program, granting the league $181,900 to train people nationwide. A copy of the story from the Hartford Courant appears below. To those of us in at the early level of the training, this is incredible news. While the course offers the mere basics, and it covers many things that experienced communicators already know, it provides a common baseline for anybody wishing to help out when it's needed, and it's free. For those reading this who are part of the first group, you have a right to be proud because your enthusiasm is part of what will be discussed in meetings this week as they iron out the funding to see if it's for one year, three years, whatever. For those of you not yet involved, if you are interested in Emergency communications, even if you have been doing it for years, please consider taking the course. It's free, and you may get something out of it. As many of you know I have been on both sides of the communications issues, both as a person needing communications and as a person providing it for more years then I care to count anymore, and I still managed to get something out of the training, so you never know. This kind of money doesn't come along every day for Ham Radio, and as the story says this outdated hobby has not gone unnoticed. Mike, N1FOA
ARRLWeb: ARRL
Certification and Continuing Education
... It is the policy of the Connecticut State Legislative Office ...
made after a participant has begun the on-line course. ... Amateur
Radio Emergency Communications (AREC ...
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United Technologies Announce Emergency ...
A $33000 grant from UTC will provide ARRL Emergency Communications
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ARRL-UTC initiative could be ...
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Registration is Full for ARRL Emergency Communications ...
... check out the sample course offered on the Connecticut
Distance Learning ... to offer a Web-based Amateur Radio Emergency
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ARRL New National EmComm Grant
... over three years will reimburse course tuition to ...
execution of the grant-funded emergency communications courses ...
plans and scope of emergency communication for ...
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ARRLWeb: ARRL Sections
... An intermediate Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Course.
... Alabama; Alaska; Arizona; Arkansas; Colorado; Connecticut;
Delaware; East Bay; Eastern Massachusetts; ...
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ARRLWeb: A Review
of the ARRL Emergency Communications Level 1 ...
... to ARRL's partnership with the Connecticut Distance Learning
Consortium (CTDLC). This is my review of the Introductory Emergency Communications
Level 1 course. ...
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Training to Begin September 1
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continue to be ... Corporation to expand Amateur Radio emergency communications
training opportunities. ...
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