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- Subject: SB316 Semantics 6/7 The ACS.
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- TO: ALL ES, CD, AND PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTORS VIA AMATEUR RADIO
- INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CALIFORNIA
- INFO: ALL AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS
- FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
- (W6SIG@WA6NWE.CA) Ph: 916-262-1600
- 2800 MEADOWVIEW RD., SACRAMENTO, CA 95832
- LANDLINE BBS OPEN TO ALL 916-262-1657
- RACESBUL.316 RELEASE DATE: March 7, 1994
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- Subject: MGT - Semantics, 6 of 7. The ACS.
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- AUXILIARY COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: The name adopted by those
- jurisdictions who have chosen to use a wide spectrum of volunteer
- telecommunication experts and other workers in government
- service. This might include commercial radio technicians and
- engineers, the RACES, Civil Air Patrol communicators and other
- unpaid professionals. In some jurisdictions it includes public
- safety and government communications as well as liaison with any
- agency that has a bearing on emergency response.
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- An ACS has four elements in which interested volunteers serve
- according to their skills and interests: administrative,
- clerical, operations, and technical. In our State ACS we have
- radio operators, heavy equipment operators, tower climbers,
- computer disk message writers, messengers, photographers, pilots,
- electricians, generator mechanics, computer programmers, plan
- writers, instructors, EBS specialists and radio announcers,
- personnel records management, clerical help, managers, shift
- supervisors, installers as well as communications and electronics
- technicians. Again, the RACES is but one part of the Auxiliary
- Communications Service. The ACS is a broad spectrum service to
- government supplementing all aspects of emergency response
- communications, not just operating radios in the field or at an
- EOC which has been considered by some to be the only role of the
- RACES.
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- (This is part of a series originally titled "From My Lookout" in
- seven parts, by Stanly E. Harter. It was renamed Semantics for
- these bulletins. Continued)
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