The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) consists of licensed amateurs who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment for communications duty in the public service when disaster strikes. Every licensed amateur, regardless of membership in ARRL or any other local or national organization, is eligible for membership in the ARES. The only qualification, other than possession of an Amateur Radio license, is a sincere desire to serve. Because ARES is an amateur service, only amateurs are eligible for membership. The possession of emergency-powered equipment is desirable, but is not a requirement for membership.
Contact:
KA1DF@ARRL.net or
K3LLH@arrl.net SC state wide ARES nets are held on the first and third Monday of every month at 6:00 PM local time. Net Frequency is 3.993.5 kHz with an alternate of
3.990.0 kHz.
MARS IS LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD HAMS
The Navy-Marine Corps Military Affiliate Radio System - Navy MARS - is seeking new members from the Low Country.
If you are a General Class or higher licensee, and have an interest in emergency communications service and support for Navy and Marine Corps communications needs, MARS would like to hear from you. There is a lot of information at
www.navymars.org or ask
Mike nnn0hng@navymars.org Mike,KB1CTC
The National Traffic System plan is a means for systematizing amateur traffic handling facilities by making a structure available for an integrated traffic facility designed to achieve the utmost in two principal objectives: rapid movement of traffic from origin to destination, and training amateur operators to handle written traffic and participate in directed nets. These two objectives, which sometimes conflict with each other, are the underlying foundations of the National Traffic System.
NTS operates daily, even continuously with the advent of the advanced digital links of today.
The personnel consists of operators who participate for one or two periods a week, and some who are active daily. The National Traffic System is an organized effort to handle traffic in accordance with a plan which is easily understood, is basically sound, and which employs modern methods of network traffic handling in general acceptance today.
http://www.w4jf.com/sc_ssb_net.htm