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Amateur Radio Part of the 2006 Alabama EMA and
Alabama-Mississippi Hurricane Conference
 ARRL Alabama SM Greg Sarratt, W4OZK, at the recent
Conference of the Alabama Association of Emergency Managers in Mobile. |
Aug 8, 2006 -- Emergency Managers from all over Alabama and Mississippi assembled for the 2006 Alabama
Association of Emergency Managers conference
in Mobile. The VIP list for the July 24-28 conference was impressive: Alabama
Governor Bob Riley; Alabama and Mississippi State EMA Directors; Max Mayfield, Director
of the National Hurricane Center; past FEMA Director James Lee Witt, and the current
FEMA Director, R. David Paulison.
Presentations, meetings and breakout sessions included a
broad range of emergency management, hurricane disaster, Incident Command
System (ICS) and lessons-learned topics. This type of conference is a "must attend"
event for Section Managers and SECs who plan to work in emergency and disaster
operations. We met dozens of emergency management personnel and have started building
relationships with them -- before the next disaster.
W4OZK was on the emergency communications breakout session
panel alongside FEMA, State EMA and industry representatives. He spoke about
the ARRL and Amateur Radio's involvement in EMCOMM and how Amateur Radio has
assisted, and can continue to assist during disasters.
There was a two day vendor show-and-tell, providing the
opportunity for W4OZK and Alabama SEC Jay Isbell, KA4KUN, to show off Amateur Radio.
We showed dozens of emergency management personnel the ARRL Ham-Aid "Go Kits" and
the newest digital technology, D-Star equipment.
W4OZK met with and discussed Amateur Radio with FEMA
Director Paulison, who now knows more about the emergency communications side
of Amateur Radio. The conference was a very informative for us and greatly beneficial
to the emergency managers. We found many people interested in what Amateur Radio
can do. We held a VE test session and tested nine EMA personnel. -- Greg
Sarratt, W4OZK, ARRL Alabama Section Manager
Page last modified: 12:57 PM, 08 Aug 2006 ET
Page author: awextra@arrl.org
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