DATES: November 22, 2003 (8:00 AM – 5:00 PM)

LOCATION: Embassy Suites Hotel, 110 West 600 South, Salt Lake City, Utah

TARGET AUDIENCE: Registered Utah RACES/ARES Members

COST: There is no cost for this course. All materials and supplies needed for the course will be provided at no charge to participants. Refreshments for breaks and lunch will be provided. See link below:

http://des.utah.gov/radio/conference.htm

Greetings all
I’d like to introduce myself, I’m Andrew McGregor. Some of you may remember me from the Elizabeth Smart Search, I served as the Incident Commander of the search. A ham myself, I requested RACES/ARES support upon arrival at the search center. Within 2 hours, a team showed up at midnight and began the long 12 hour days for search support. It was an honor to work with all the volunteers, and I am planning on being at the conference on Nov 22 to speak about the event and how important the role hams played in the search. Remember that a crime had been committed, and we had to have contact with each field team or they could not go.

I hope to both see and meet some of you at the conference, and maybe some old friends I met back then. I have written a book about the search, and gave high praise for the ham radio volunteers in several areas in the book. I have included the website to the book in case you’d like to learn more about both the search and how our hobby played such an important role.

Andrew/N7XQY
www.tendaysinutah.com
Kudos’ to the webmaster….great site!