Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Guidebook

Table of Contents
Amateur Radio Emergency Communications in the Community
Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)
Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES)
Principles of Disaster Communication
Working with Public Safety Officials and Agencies
National Traffic System (NTS)
Incident Command System (ICS)
Message Handling
Hurricane Intensity Scale
The Emergency
Radiogram
ITU Phonetic Alphabet
International Q Signals
US Amateur Bands
Amateur Radio Call Sign Numerical Prefixes
Signal Reporting
Communications Net Procedure
CTCSS (PL) Tone Frequencies
Packet Radio
APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System)
PSK (Phase Shift Keying) Radio
Winlink 2000
Satellite Radio
Antennas and Propagation
H.F. Antenna Analysis
Emergency Power
Anderson Powerpoles
D-Star Programming
Echolink and IRLP
Portable Antenna Systems