[KYHAM] More Money Now Set Aside For Emergency Comm Training!

[Ron Dodson]

>From this week's ARRL Letter...

==>UTC EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS NATIONAL TRAINING GRANT TO
COVER ALL
LEVELS

A generous grant from ARRL corporate partner United
Technologies
Corporation (UTC) <http://www.utc.com> will expand
reimbursed Amateur
Radio Emergency Communications Course (ARECC) training to
all three
training levels and put the UTC grant program on a national
level. The
three-year, $150,000 grant will reimburse the cost of
tuition to students
anywhere in the US who successfully complete ARRL's Level I,
II and III
Amateur Radio emergency communication courses. An earlier
UTC grant
covered Level I and II ARECC training for more than 280
Connecticut
amateurs.

"This grant plays perfectly into the overall plan and scope
of emergency
communication for local communities and our nation as a
whole," said ARRL
Emergency Communications Course Manager Dan Miller, K3UFG.
"This will
allow us to increase the number of seats offered each month
for
reimbursable courses." Miller praised UTC's foresight and
proactive
approach to community involvement.

ARRL Chief Development Officer Mary Hobart, K1MMH, said UTC
clearly
recognizes the importance of emergency communication. "With
this new
grant, UTC has taken a giant step and renewed its commitment
to Amateur
Radio, emergency communication and homeland security," she
said.

Including the earlier UTC grant and a three-year federal
Corporation for
National and Community Service (CNCS) award of some
$543,000, the ARRL now
has secured $726,000 for emergency communication training.
That training,
Hobart predicted, "will have an impact on every state in the
union."

Students successfully completing any level of the on-line
Amateur Radio
Emergency Communications classes under the new UTC grant
will be eligible
for reimbursement of their $45 registration fee.