Gordon Grove WA7LNC Section Emergency Coordinator

There is only one SEC appointed in each ARRL Section. His duties are to:

• Encourage all groups of community amateurs to establish a local emergency organization.
• Provide recommendations to the SM on all section emergency policy and planning, including the development of a section emergency communications plan.
• Cooperate and coordinate with the Section Traffic Manager so that emergency nets and traffic nets in the section present a united public service front, particularly in the proper routing of Welfare traffic in emergency situations. Cooperation and coordination should also be maintained with other section leadership officials as appropriate, particularly with State Government Liaison and Public Information Officer.
• Recommend candidates for Emergency Coordinator and District Emergency Coordinator appointments (and cancellations) to the Section Manager and determine areas of jurisdiction of each amateur so appointed. At the SM's discretion, the SEC may be directly in charge of making (and canceling) such appointments. In the same way, the SEC can administer the Official Emergency Station program.
• Promote ARES membership drives, meetings, activities, tests, procedure, etc, at the section level.
• Collect and consolidate EC (or DEC) monthly reports and submission of monthly progress summaries to ARRL HQ. This includes the timely reporting of emergency and public safety communications rendered in the section for inclusion in QST.
• Maintain contact with other communication services and serve as liaison at the section level with all agencies served in the public interest, particularly in connection with state and local government, civil preparedness, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Red Cross, Salvation Army. The National Weather Service, and so on. Such contact is maintained in cooperation with the State Government Liaison.