Subj : Arkansas Section News
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Nov 01 2021 18:28:22


Good Day to all:

My name is J.M. Rowe N5XFW. Some of you know me already, I am looking
forward to meeting the rest of you for the first time. Our Section
Manager, Jay, N5LKE, has appointed me as the Section Emergency Coordinator
(SEC). If you are not interested in ARES, now is a good time to stop
reading this email!

I want to list some of my bona fides so the newer folks don't have to
discover them on their own, but I promise I am not bragging. A lot of
these came just because I have been around for a long time. I am an
Extra Class operator, my first License was granted on the 5th of
November 1991. I have been involved with and around Public Safety since
1978, first with Fire and then EMS which led to Emergency Management. I
got my Technician ticket because the Commo guy said they needed folks to
do SkyWarn, which was very new in the Hot Springs area (no Radar!) I
have been involved with EMCOMM ever since. Currently I am the Emergency
Support Function 2 (ESF 2) liaison to Amateur, SHARES
(https://www.cisa.gov/shared-resources-shares-high-frequency-hf-radio-program)
and other auxiliary communications entities, for the Arkansas Division
of Emergency Management. This is a volunteer position, and I am very
honored that I'm allowed to work with these fine people. I am a
member of the Arkansas Wireless Information Network (AWIN) Executive
Committee and I am the Chairman of the Communications Unit Working
Group. I am a trained Communications Unit Leader (COML) and a COML
instructor. I have been through every class the ARRL has in reference
to EMCOMM, some of them twice as a Beta tester. I am the Chair of the
700 MHz Planning Committee for the State of Arkansas. I'm a member of
SAFECOM (https://www.cisa.gov/safecom). I am very proud to be the
recipient of both the Sonny Cox
(https://www.dps.arkansas.gov/emergency-management/adem/awin/apsc-conference/)
and the Joe Halsey
(https://arkansas-ema.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020_Joe_Halsey_Award.pdf)
awards.

There will be a few of you that remember that I have am a past SEC and
Section Manager. I want everyone to know there have been a lot of
changes in the EMCOMM landscape since then. I know each of you wishes
to be an asset to your community, and it is my job to help you. More on
that later. As it is right now, the local Emergency Manager or
Non-Governmental Organization needs volunteers they know and trust.
Let's start there!

Thanks to N5LKE for allowing me the opportunity of using the Section
Email platform! I'll be sending more as time goes on. I have a
couple of email addresses, mycall at arrl dot org and mycall at yahoo
dot com. Contact me with questions or comments. 

73, 
J.M. N5XFW

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ARRL Arkansas Section
Section Manager: James D Ferguson Jr, N5LKE
n5lke@arrl.org
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