Utah County Amateur Radio Emergency Service

A.R.E.S. is a national organization of Amateur Radio Operators trained in Emergency Communications under the direction of the American Radio Relay League.

“The Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES) consists of licensed amateurs who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment, with their local ARES leadership, for communications duty in the public service when disaster strikes.” (http://www.arrl.org/ares)

UCARES is the A.R.E.S. group for Utah County and we coordinate directly with, and are supported by the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.  We also have both official and un-official liaisons with numerous other public service agencies, emergency, health, and transportation entities throughout the County.  Our members are all volunteers and hundreds if not thousands of volunteer hours each year are donated by our volunteers to our community.  For more information on the groups we work with, take a look at our Liaisons page.

EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS

We are using Google Groups to stay connected off of the air. To sign up, please send an email to the organization leadership at the address “leadership@ucares.org”

Need an ELMER?  Need help programing your radio or help with antennas?  Send us an email to: leadership@ucares.org

Meetings

Current meeting and EOC agency schedules can be found here!

Certification

UCARES Certification requirements can be found in the Resource Pages. Though not required to join ARES, Certification Levels demonstrate the level of proficiency and equipment you have, and are considered by UCARES leadership when making assignments for public service events and callouts.

Interested in participating?

1. Start with reading through the Field Guide in the Resources section.
2. Fill out the membership application form here.
3. Check in with the training nets, Tuesday Nights at 9:00 PM MST on the 147.34 repeater (details in the field guide)
4. Join us for the first Tuesday of the month face to face meeting.  Click here to see meeting location and maps.
5. Follow the group on Facebook and keep an eye on your email for event announcements and callouts.