New Castle County Emergency Operations Group

New Castle County

Emergency Operations Group

Amateur Radio supporting the New Castle County Office of Emergency Management
Questions about ARES® or RACES (302) 689-6188

Office of Emergency Management
Contact info:

Address: 3601 N. DuPont Highway
New Castle, De 19720

Directions

Phone: (302) 395-2700
Fax: (302) 395-2705

FOR EMERGENCIES DIAL 911

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Terror-Alert.com

EMCOMM NEWS

WE HAVE ANTENNAS ON THE PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING!!

On Wednesday April 30 and Thursday May 1, 2008 ARES/RACES antennas were installed on the roof of the Paul J. Sweeney Public Safety Building. We now have antennas for 160-6 meters and two dual band antennas for two meters/70cm, one yagi and one omni-directional.

NCCEOG Picture Archive

2009 New Castle County Public Safety Awards Ceremony [May 14, 2009]

Delaware ARES® / RACES Registration Join the growing Emergency Communications movement and give back to the community when it needs help the most.

NETS:

Delaware Traffic Net-1830 local time, Monday through Friday 3.905 Mhz (+/-QRM) LSB

Delaware Emergency Phone Net- 1800 local time, Saturdays 3.905 Mhz (+/-QRM) LSB

Delmarva Emergency Net-1830 local time Sundays 3.905 Mhz (+/-QRM) LSB

CARES Net (Christiana ARES) 2000 local time, Tuesday 146.730 Wilmington Repeater

Skywarn Net 2100 Thursday many area repeaters. See the info page here

UPCOMING EVENTS/DRILLS/EXERCISES/CERTIFICATION TRAINING:

EVENTS:

Senate Concurrent Resolution 22 declares June as Amateur Radio month in Delaware

ARRL Field Day, First State Amateur Radio Club style
June 27, 28 2009
WDEL
2727 Shipley Rd. Wilmington
VE Testing 10:00-12:00
Command One and Governor Markell (subject to changes due to proximity to the new fiscal year) are scheduled to be there

National Night Out
August 4, 2009
Banning Park
6:00-9:00 PM

Delmarva Emcomm Quarterly Meeting
Sponsored by Lewes RACES
Saturday August 29
9:00 AM
Sussex County EOC
Georgetown, DE

DRILLS/EXERCISES:

FEMA Evaluated Radiological Emergency preparedness (REP) Plume and Ingestion Pathway Exercise Pracice March 23, 24, and 25

FEMA Evaluated Radiological Emergency preparedness (REP) Plume and Ingestion Pathway Exercise Exercise May 18, 19 and 20, 2010

(extent of play for ARES/RACES not yet established)

CERTIFICATION / TRAINING

New Castle County Citizens Corps. Classes coming soon:

None Scheduled at this time.

To register for Citizens Corps. events/training, E-mail citizencorps@nccde.org or call 395-2700

For the DEMA training Calendar for classroom NIMS/ICS courses, go to
http://dema.delaware.gov/services/calendar/Trng_Cal.shtml

For FEMA NIMS/ICS online courses go to
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nims/NIMSTrainingCourses.shtm and scroll down to the Emergency management Institute section.

ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Communications online courses

Level 1 Amateur Radio Emergency Communications
EC-001

Begins May 1, 2009 and ends June 26, 2009

Cost: $50.00 (ARRL Member), $85.00 (Nonmember)

https://www.arrl.org/forms/cce/reg.html?co_num=EC-001

Next class starts Friday, June 5th.

Level 2 Amateur Radio Emergency Communications
EC-002 DISCONTINUED
no classes available for Requstration

Level 3 Amateur Radio Emergency Communications
EC-003, Revison 2 DISCONTINUED
This course is undergoing revision. Watch for announcements of upcoming classes when the process is complete.

EC-002 and EC-003 are being combined into a new Advanced Emergency Communications Course.

Notes:

Level 2 courses may be completed up until May 31, 2009 but after that ARRL will not certify any completion.

Level 1 will remain unchanged.

New Castle County-DE Amateur Radio Licensing Classes

Classes Currently Running

Technician

General

Classes Planned in the near future

None scheduled at this time, please contact Robbie, W3RSM if you are interested in a class. If we get enough interest, we'll schedule one.

Tehcnician

General