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

(Click the logo to go to the site)

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.

2009 SET Picture link

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:

Delaware QSO Party February 6, 1700Z until February 7, 2359Z

Full details at http://fsarc.org/DEQSO.html

DRILLS/EXERCISES:

Medical Reserve Corps. drill January 18, 1300est- ~1900est

CERTIFICATION / TRAINING

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/Other 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