The Amateur Radio Emergency
Service (ARES) is a nationally organized group of over 35,000Federally
licensed Amateur Radio operators who have voluntarily registered
their services and formed an organized pool of operators to provide
reliable primary and secondary communications links for governmental
agencies and/or non-profit organizations when needed. Local
groups participate under the "umbrella" of the national ARES
organization which is administered as part of the American Radio Relay
League, the National Organization fro Amateur Radio.
Locally the Washington County ARES group serves Washington County, Utah
and all Municipal agencies within Washington County.
WCoARES also serves the St. George Marathon, The American Red
Cross, the Huntsman World Senior Games and any other non-profit
organizations upon request.
Washington County ARES has its own web site.
Please click
on this link to go there: http://www.washingtoncoares.org
Note: You will navigate away from this site. There are
links from the Wash Co. ARES site back to the DARC site.
