Hall County ARES Basic Emcomm Course 001

In an effort to provide the community with well trained emergency communicators, Hall County ARES has adopted a set of minimum training standards that our Active Duty personnel are required to take.  The Basic Emcomm 001 course is one of these requirements.  This course is based upon the ARRL Basic Emcomm 001 course material with a few additions and revisions to fit our particular needs.  While this course is not mandated for our Active or Inactive Reserve, we do recommend it for them and anyone that is interested in emcomm.

This class costs 50.00 dollars if you take it from the ARRL but with us it is free.  What a bargain...  This is a mentored program.  Before you begin studying the materials, please go to our contact section and send a request to the Emergency Coordinator.  The EC will assign you a mentor to help you as you move through the materials.  At the end of each section there will be a simple exercise to reinforce the lessons learned.  The mentor will review your lesson and offer advice as needed.

At the end of the course there will be a 40 question multiple choice test.  This test will be open book and the goal is to show that you are at least familiar enough with the information to know where to look it up.  We do not expect you to memorize this info.  Much of our job as emergency communicators is just knowing where to find the information we need.  The goal here is to familiarize the student with our procedures well enough to be able to look up critical data when the need arises.

We hope everyone that wants to be involved with emcomm will take this course.  If you find anything in the course material that is unclear or needs correction please let us know.  If you find a mistake in the manual you will get a gold star on your final report card.  Thank you for your time to take this class and we look forward to working with you.