[KL7AA] Alaska ARES Training Links and Information

[philip mannie]

To Alaska ARES participants and other interested parties:

In an October 27, 2003 email, Linda Mullen, AD4BL, Alaska Section 
Emergency Coordinator outlined basic training requirements for Alaska 
ARES members. I'm sending this message along to provide details to 
assist ARES members in getting signed up.

ARRL Emergency Communications I
This course is offered online and is described at:

http://www.remote.arrl.org/cce/courses.html#ec001

Registration for this course (EC-001) generally opens on the first 
Monday of each month at 12:01 AM Eastern Time, and closes at midnight on 
the following Sunday. I recommend that you register early as the courses 
fill up rapidly. ARRL members who reside in the U.S. should select a 
reimbursable CNCS- or UTC-subsidized class. The $45 fee will be 
reimbursed upon successful completion of the class. Links to class 
registration are available from this page.

FEMA Basic Incident Command System
Also offered as an on-line, independent study course. See:

http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is195.asp

for a course description and to get the course material. You can 
register and download course material at any time; there is no cost. 
You'll need to follow the links on that page to download the course 
material and will need software to read Portable Document Format (PDF) 
files installed on your computer. One source of free PDF reading 
software is:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

the PDF decoding software is available for most common computer 
operating systems (Apple Macintosh, Windows, LINUX/UNIX) and should be 
easy to install... it is likely that you already have this software 
installed, so give it a try. If you encounter insurmountable 
difficulties, you can email me (kl0qw@alaska.net) and I'll try to help.

Good luck.

73,
phil
KL0QW