[ARRL-OK] [ARES-OK] Moving Forward - Public Service Communications

[Ben via ARRL-OK]

I just read both articles and I have issues with this move from EmCOMM to Public Service.  For the past 38 years I have used my privileges to provide emergency communications first, and public service when needed. Each one of those years I  used my radio experience to help with public events. I use the public events as a training aid for when an emergency happens.  As an ARES member and officer we press the members to practice EmCOMM procedures by helping with public events. I disagree with Mr. Palm, we are not public service communicators that are willing to help with emergency communications. We are Amateur Radio operators that practice EmCOMM by helping with public service events. I was a CERT instructor so I know what CERT does. They are very good at what they do. We told the CERT students to look to the Ham community for EmCOMM. We, ARES,  work with many served agencies and public service groups without becoming part of those agencies or groups. We bring expert communication skills to the table. If we do what Mr. Palm suggests and melt into community organizations I am afraid we could lose our effectiveness as a team.  
 
Just my thoughts. I will continue to serve ARES and the community any way I can. Amateur radio has been good to me and keeps me busy in retirement.
 
Ben Joplin, WB5VST 
Zone 5 Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service-Oklahoma
918-639-2853 Cell 
918-396-1651 Home
benj1 at aol.com
www.ARESOK.org

 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Conklin n7xyo at yahoo.com [aresoklahoma] <aresoklahoma at yahoogroups.com>
To: ARRL OK Reflector <arrl-ok at mailman.qth.net>; ARES Oklahoma Yahoogroup <aresoklahoma at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: Kevin O'Dell N0IRW <n0irw at me.com>; Dr. David Woolweaver K5RAV Dir WGD <k5rav at arrl.org>; John Stratton N5AUS Vice Dir WGD <n5aus at arrl.org>
Sent: Sat, May 24, 2014 11:27 am
Subject: [ARES-OK] Moving Forward - Public Service Communications

Oklahoma Section Radio Amateurs,
I hope you took time to read the Public Service columns of the May and June (2014) QST magazine [1].  Whether you already read the columns or not, I ask you to read each of them again – together – May first then June.
In just a few pages the League (ARRL) was trying to express the changes in nomenclature and lables; here’s what you didn’t read.  For most of us nothing has changed.  We’re still going to do what we need to do to serve Oklahomans.
What? Didn’t I read it? It said no more Emergency Communications (AKA EmComm)!  I did read it, and it said no more use of the LABLE EmComm.  Think of it like this: using your favorite word processing program and using the FIND/REPLACE feature… Find “Emergency Communications” or EmComm and Replace with “Public Service Communications”.  Is that overly simple? Maybe, but in the day to day activities of most of my fellow Radio Amateurs this nomenclature change will have ZERO change to what we are doing to serve the public through ham radio.  
If you do not have QST magazine or have already recycled you copy we have posted a PDF of BOTH the May and June 2014 Public Service columns on www.ARESOK.org  Go to our website and click the link on the LEFT sids of page labled “QST PSA”.   Please take time to download and read them both together.
After you have read both columns, then sit back and ask yourself; does this change of labels change what I am willing to do, or does it change what I have done to serve the public through Amateur Radio? For me, it changes nothing other than I need to update the labels in a few power point slides I use.
If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.
Thank you for your service & 73’s,
 
Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO
www.ARESOK.org
 
[1]QST is the monthly membership journal of ARRL - the National Association of Amateur Radio.
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