Training Information
Welcome to the Harris County ARES training section. ARES ® training is a personal commitment on your part. Your leadership team; SEC, DEC, ADEC, EC & AEC's will gladly assist you, but they can't do it for you. This section is broken out by general topic material. Any of this material may be used by any ARES/RACES/REACT/CAP unit as a part of their weekly training nets in whole or part and may be changed to meet the unit requirements.
Recommended Coordinated ARES Training for the South Texas Section
- 2017 Coordinated ARES Training
- 2018 Coordinated ARES Training
- 2019 Coordinated ARES Training
- 2020 Coordinated ARES Training
ARRL American Radio Relay League
- Amateur Radio Emergency Services General Information
- ARRL - Online EmCom Training
- ARRL EC-001 Intro to EmCom
- ARRL EC-016 Public Service And EmCom Mgmt
- ARRL PR-101- Public Relations 101
CERT - Community Emergency Response Teams
Digital
Emergency
- EME-101 Alert Readiness
- EME-102 Disaster Scene
- EME-103 Emergency vs Disaster
- EME-104 Emergency redux Ida
- EME-105 Evacuation Chart (Updated 2020.01.14)
- EME-106 Evacuations
- EME-107 Legalities Emergency Communication
- EME-108 Harris County Homeland Security
- EME-109 USCG
- EME-110 MARS
- EME-111 Ready or Not
- EME-112 Wilderness
- EME-113 Wireless Response
- EME-114 Simulated Emergency Test - SET
- EME-115 Emergency / Disaster Com Plan for family
- EME-116 Hazardous Material
- EME-117 Attitude and EmComm
- EME-118 Alternative methods of communication
- EME-119 Hospital Emergency Communication
- EME-120 Disaster Communications / General Procedure
- EME-121 Emergency Operations Deployment
- EME-122 How repeaters are used during emergencies
FEMA
Incident Command Structure
Leadership Courses
- FEMA IS-120 Intro To Exercises
- FEMA IS-230 Fundamentasl of Emer Mgmt
- FEMA IS-240 Leadership and Influence
- FEMA IS-241 Decision Making Problem Solving
- FEMA IS-242 Effective Communication
- FEMA IS-244 Developing and Managing Volunteers
- FEMA IS-120 The Role of Voluntary Organizations
Additional Courses
Forms we use
- FRM-101 After Action Report
- FRM-102 ICS 213. This has not been updated to reflect the new Texas 213RRTX now in WebEOC
Knowledge based training
- KNW-101 Area Repeater Map
- KNW-102 Are you ready?
- KNW-103 Basic Communication
- KNW-104 Canned ham
- KNW-105 Coax Comparison 1
- KNW-106 Coax Comparison 2
- KNW-107 Cross band repeat
- KNW-108 Extend HT Range
- KNW-109 Fixed J-pole 1
- KNW-110 Fixed J-pole 2
- KNW-111 Generator
- KNW-112 Go Bag 1
- KNW-113 Go Bag 2
- KNW-114 Inappropriate use
- KNW-115 Know your radio
- KNW-116 Light Duty Tripod
- KNW-117 NVIS 1
- KNW-118 NVIS 2
- KNW-119 NVIS 3
- KNW-120 Power Pole 101
- KNW-121 Power coax cases
- KNW-122 Power Pole 2
- KNW-123 Roll up J-pole
- KNW-124 Two Way 101
- KNW-125 Ham Typing
- KNW-126 RHPC, SETRAC and CMOC
- KNW-127 Battery Selection Safety (Updated 2020.01.01)
- KNW-128 Being "In Charge"
- KNW-129 Charging Batteries
- KNW-130 Selecting A Generator
- KNW-131 Protecting from EMP
- KNW-132 Wireless and the Titanic
- KNW-133 Vacation Go-Kits
- KNW-134 Family First
- KNW-135 ITU Phonetics
- KNW-136 Organize Radio Memories
- KNW-137 Amateur Operation In Other Countries
- KNW-138 Winterize / Maintain Gas Powered Equip
- KNW-139 Generic Plan / Widespread - Extended Utility Outages
- KNW-140 Choosing A Radio For EmCom
- KNW-141 Evacuation Grab And Go Kit
- KNW-142 Working In An Incident Command Vehicle
- KNW-143 Operational Stress
- KNW-144 Prepare For Deployment
- KNW-145 Basic Repeater Operation (Updated 2020.01.01)
- KNW-146 NVIS Antenna Test
- KNW-147 Trailer mounted tower
- KNW-148 Communicating effectively 1
- KNW-149 Communicating effectively 2
- KNW-150 Water storage and purification
- KNW-151 Third party communication
- KNW-152 Gasoline storage and generator maintenance
- KNW-153 Major emergency event preparedness
- KNW-154 Is amateur radio becoming obsolete for emergency communications
- KNW-155 Disaster / major emergency - What can be expected
- KNW-156 ARES as a group
- KNW-157 Amber alert
- KNW-158 Ice storms
- KNW-159 Pandemic influenza
- KNW-160 How to sound like an experienced operator
- KNW-161 Antenna polarization
- KNW-162 Hospital Radio Teams
- KNW-163 ICS History
- KNW-164 ICS Org Structure
- KNW-165 ICS Resources & Facilities
- KNW-166 ICS Structure Chart
- KNW-167 Where we fit
Messages
- MSG-101 Basic Message Forms
- MSG-102 Basic Message Parts
- MSG-103 Basic Traffic Handling
- MSG-104 Radiogram
- MSG-105 Radiogram instructions
- MSG-106 ARRL message format
Nets
- NET-101 ARES Nets
- NET-102 Net Control
- NET-103 Tactical nets
- NET-104 Operating tactical nets (Updated 2020.01.01)
- NET-105 Tactical calls
- NET-106 Operating in emergency nets
- NET-107 Operating in an emergency
- NET-108 WAN after action report
- NET-109 WAN communication outage
- NET-110 Break Tags (Updated 2020.01.01)
- NET-111 Prowords I
- NET-112 Prowords II
- NET-113 The Net Control Station
- NET-114 Net Control Tips
- NET-115 Field Day
- NET-116 Indecision Can Kill (Updated 2020.01.01)
- NET-117 Communications Guidelines
- NET-118 ARES net operations tidbits (Updated 2020.01.01)
- NET-119 Logging and record keeping
- NET-120 Communication training review
Preparedness
- PRE-101 Preparedness Bucket (Updated 2020.01.01)
Professionalism
- PRO-101 Amateur radio operators as professionals PT-I
- PRO-102 Amateurs as professionals PT-II
- PRO-103 Amateurs as professionals PT-III
Public service
- PSV-101 Bike ride survival guide
- PSV-102 Public Service event coordinator
- PSV-103 Rest stop (Updated 2020.01.01)
- PSV-104 What is a SAG
- PSV-105 Marathon best practice
- PSV-106 Working with public safety officials (Updated 2020.01.01)
- PSV-107 Public service events
- PSV-108 What is a shadow
- PSV-109 Optimize your effectiveness in public service events
Safety
- SAF-101 Generator safety (Updated 2020.01.01)
- SAF-102 Heat advisory
- SAF-103 Heat related illness (Updated 2020.01.01)
- SAF-104 Safety tips, recovery operations (Updated 2020.01.01)
- SAF-106 How to store Gasoline for an emergency.
- SAF-107 Hide and run
- SAF-108 Hazardous Materials Incidents
- SAF-109 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (Updated 2020.01.01)
- SAF-110 Amateur Radio And Electrical Safety(Updated 2020.01.01)
- SAF-111 Why lives are lost
- SAF-112 Lightning safety (Updated 2020.01.01)
- SAF-113 Personal safety (Updated 2020.01.01)
- SAF-114 Preparing to shelter in place - radiation emergency
- SAF-115 Disaster driving ARES style
Weather
- WEA-101 Lightning protection 1
- WEA-102 Lightning protection 2
- WEA-103 Lightning protection 3
- WEA-104 Lightning protection 4
- WEA-105 Storm spotter (Updated 2020.01.01)
- WEA-106 Tropical weather
- WEA-107 Turn around
- WEA-108 Heading toward hurricane season
- WEA-109 Hurricane guide
- WEA-110 Hurricane ready
- WEA-111 Ops, Houston Galveston NWS
- WEA-112 Rita
- WEA-113 Tropical Cyclone Hazards
- WEA-114 Winter Weather Definitions
ARRL / WGD / South Texas / District 14
- DIS-101 District 14 Emergency Communications Plan
- DIS-101A Mobilization Procedure
- DIS-101B Alert Definitions and Increased-Readiness Conditions
- DIS-101C An Introduction to the District 14 Emergency Plan
- DIS-101D RRT’s and Other Abbreviations
- DIS-102 ARRL Emergency Communications Manual (FSD-9)
- DIS-103 Planning effective exercises
- DIS-104 Why we train