ARRL and REACT share common goals in terms of emergency communication. While REACT has been associated primarily with Citizens Band in the past, the organization has widened its focus to embrace amateur and other services. Look at just about any summary of a disaster event, and you'll find reports of amateurs out on missions with Red Cross personnel, and providing communications for shelter managers.Īssociation of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO-International) Local ARES Emergency Coordinators work closely with their counterparts in the chapter offices. Their national headquarters is located in Washington, but most of the action occurs at the state and local chapter levels, where the rubber meets the road. The signatory to the local MOU for the ARRL has been changed to the Section Manager or Section Emergency Coordinator, and a local point of contact field (similar to the relationship manager in the national MOU) has been added.Ĭhartered by Congress in 1905, the Red Cross provides relief to victims displaced by disaster, from the onset of disaster conditions to the recovery phase. One change in the renewed MOU is to Attachment C, the local MOU template. For example, the renewed statement of March 2010 was updated editorially in November 2010 to change the ARRL Relationship Manager and Operational Contact information (Attachment A) and deleted several extraneous words from page 5. There have been a few changes over the years in the statement.
Get more information on Served Agencies and Partners and their MOUs.ARRL and the American Red Cross have had cooperative agreements since 1940. The most important step here is to ensure that both parties to the local agreement have a realistic assessment of the resources brought to the table by the servers, and the needs of the served. These are broad guidelines that may lead to the development of a local memorandum of understanding or similar document that sets up detailed operational plans and policies to be followed by both parties during drills and actual events. Secondly, the Memorandum of Understanding spells out the capabilities and organization of the servers (the Amateur Radio operators), the organization and needs of the served agency, and the methods of operation.
The served agency says, in effect, that we have examined this organization of radio amateurs and have found them to be trustworthy and able to render substantial and needed services for our field operations in times of emergency. A new ARES group is more likely to be heard and taken seriously by a local National Weather Service office when accompanied by the agreement document signed by the head of the agency. at the Section or local level of the ARRL field organization.Īt the local level, an MOU serves two purposes. Sometimes a national level MOU can provide the basis for local memoranda of understanding at the working level, i.e.
The MOU sets out broad guidelines and expectations of the two organizations. An MOU provides a framework for cooperation and coordination with governmental and non-governmental agencies to which radio amateurs provide communication services, or with whom we cooperate in serving the public. The ARRL enters into memoranda of understanding with other organizations when there is a mutual benefit to be gained. Let's take a brief look at each of these agencies, and- from the Amateur Radio operator's perspective - our "method of operation" under each of our national-level formal agreements, a.k.a. A major part of Amateur Radio's public service and emergency service activities is conducted in the context of the ARRL's formal agreements with the emergency management, emergency service and public service communities.
One of the premier justifications for continued access to the Amateur Radio spectrum is public service.
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