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- TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES/OFFICES VIA THE ARS
- INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
- ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
- FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
- 2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)427-4281
- RACESBUL.202 DATE: Dec. 30, 1991
- SUBJECT: Misc: 1991 in review
- This year continued to see a growth in the planning for and
- use of Amateur Radio operators and other communications volun-
- teers in government service. This interest and growth has been
- not only in California but throughout the United States and
- Canada. The role of the Amateur Radio operator in emergency
- communications has changed drastically from what it was twenty
- years ago. Back then, the ham basically planned for long term
- operations that might last for days at a time. The RACES person,
- that is any ham attached to a local government civil defense
- agency, was preoccupied with a worst-case wartime scenario.
- Today's RACES unit, on the other hand, is geared for quick re-
- sponse, short term, emergency public safety communications sup-
- port. Gone, thank goodness, is the image of the tin hat, armband,
- flashlight and bucket of sand. Gone are the legions of home
- radio stations. In their place are more and more government
- locations fully equipped with RACES, CAP, and other radio sta-
- tions so that the volunteers don't have to lug their own to serve
- their government. I say thanks to all those unpaid professionals
- in our organization and those of you throughout the country with
- whom I have communicated with this year. Such good volunteers
- not only look good, they make you and your organization look
- good. We salute the dedicated and growing number of packet bulle-
- tin board sysops who make these Bulletins available to a host of
- emergency communications volunteers. We thank all of you who
- have contributed material for these Bulletins. In 1992 we plan
- to encourage the broader use of the RACES people in many other
- radio and communications services. We hope to see a return to
- the emergency communications performance role of the Civil Air
- Patrol. This year we changed the name of the forty year old State
- RACES section to the Auxiliary Radio Service to better reflect
- the broad diversity of services required of today's volunteers.
- Together we look forward to 1992, and may it ever bigger and
- better for us all.
- Stan Harter, KH6GBX Cary Mangum, W6WWW
- State RACES Coordinator Chief State Radio Officer
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- EOF
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