Glendora Emergency Response Communications

Mark Hayden N7YLA, GERC Coordinator
website administrator

Email: realweather@gmail.com

Jim Dowdle, KG6TQT, GERC Assistant Coordinator

Vice President, Southern California Intermountain Repeater Association

www.scirainc.org

Email: dowdle@roadrunner.com

Frank Bigelow, KG6TQV, GERC Field Day Coordinator

bigelow1240@hotmail.com

Rob Foth, KE6YGF, GERC Assistant Coordinator

rjfoth@verizon.net

Glendora Emergency Response Communications

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Glendora Emergency Response Communications group, herein known as GERC, is to unite those amateur radio operators who have a common interest in communications, specifically to provide training, support and encouragement to radio amateurs who wish to serve as emergency communicators for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

GERC exists to provide technical training and standards, and act as a source of information, to those radio amateurs who wish to provide a working emergency communications program for a non-profit organization (i.e. helping in planning, testing of plans, etc.), or who wish to participate in emergency communications.

PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION

The purpose of GERC is to:

1) provide support and training to radio amateurs who wish to serve in emergency communications positions. This may be accomplished by conducting on-the-air training and social nets; holding meetings from time to time; and publishing a webpage newsletter.

2) provide an opportunity for radio amateurs to share ideas and experiences relating to emergency communications, particularly as it relates to the interface between emergency and health and welfare service providers and local CERT, ARES and RACES networks.

3) conduct the Glendora Emergency Response Communications radio net which shall meet on the first, second, and third Tuesday evenings at 8:30 pm (2030 hrs), There will be a training meeting on the fourth Tuesdays at the main facility, 2121 east Route 66, Glendora CA. Visitors welcome. The Net frequency will be 146.715 MHz.

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