Paul Smith

EME-117 ATTITUDE AND EMCOMM Waller County ARES training material written by Christine Smith, N5CAS (sk) A person having just completed basic training as a fire fighter is not going to be expected by the public, his peers, or his superiors to be as well suited to all aspects of the job as one who has … Read more

EME-116Hazardous Material Waller County ARES training material written by Christine Smith, N5CAS (sk) This discussion is really just meant to be an introduction to Hazardous Materials (HazMat). I would like to also stress the need for personal safety when dealing with Hazardous Materials. Amateur operators sometimes encounter HazMat incidents, or you may be asked to … Read more

EME-115Emergency/Disaster Com Plan for Your Family Modified and adapted by Earl Pack – AE5PA. Base material from a Cook County ARES training article 3/24/2004Updates for technical improvements by P. Smith, k5prs, 26 Mar 2023 As amateur operators, we spend time practicing and preparing for emergency communications in case of a disaster. Everybody knows how important … Read more

EME-114 Simulated Emergency Test (SET)Adapted from a Waller County Ares Trainingwritten by Christine Smith (N5CAS, sk)updated 02 Aug 2025 by Paul Smith, K5PRS The ARRL Simulated Emergency Test (SET) is a nationwide exercise in emergency communications, administered by ARRL Emergency Coordinators and Net Managers. Both ARES and the National Traffic System (NTS) are involved. The … Read more

EME-112The Wilderness Protocol The Wilderness Protocol is a dedicated effort to insure emergency communications help either in areas beyond normal repeater coverage or in the event local repeaters are off-the-air and not reachable in an emergency situation. Here is some information provided by the ARRL and others: ARES Field Resources ManualAppendix 6, page 87www.arrl.org/FandES/field/aresman.pdf Various … Read more

EME-111Ready Or Not??(Revised Dec 2013) The Atlantic Hurricane season officially opened on June 1st, 2013. In 2012 some tropical storms jumped the gun. Tropical Storm Alberto formed off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, May 19th . Not wanting us to get lazy, nature turned around the next week and gave us Tropical Storm … Read more

EME-110KNOW YOUR AGENCIES! KNOW YOUR PARTNERS! Updated by Gus Bernard – K5GMB and Walt Sepaniac – N5TQHarris County TX ARES INTRO: As ARES members, we support a number of agencies around us with emergency communications. There are also other organizations that support the same or similar agencies with emergency communications. To be fully effective in … Read more

A HOBBY WITH A DUTY:LEGALITIES OF EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONSFOR AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORSRichard G. Johnson, Esquire C o p y r i g h t ©2 0 0 3 R i c h a r d G . J o h n s o n , A E 3 C Certainly, Amateur Radio is one of the … Read more

EME-106EVACUATIONS Even though we would like to remain in this area in the event of an emergency, there are scenarios in which the risk is too high for us to remain. Hurricanes are the first events that come to mind, but HazMat incidents, forest fires or even acts of terrorism can require us to evacuate. … Read more

EME-104 Emergency – Ida Redux Once again ‘Mother Nature’ seems to have given us another wake up call–when Hurricane IDA came through the Yucatan Channel and then, although downgraded to a Tropical Storm, made landfall in the Dauphin Island/Mobile Bay area triggering elevated levels of rainfall on saturated lands, with the potential of flooding from … Read more